Ornella Muti
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Ornella Muti in 2000
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| Born |
Francesca Romana Rivelli 9 March 1955 Rome, Italy |
| Residence | Moscow, Russia. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1970–present |
| Spouse(s) |
Alessio Orano (m. 1975; div. 1981) Federico Facchinetti (m. 1988; div. 1996) 2 children |
Ornella Muti (born 9 March 1955) is an Italian actress.
She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan father and Ilse Renata Krause, a Baltic German from Estonia. Her maternal grandparents emigrated from Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) to Estonia. She has an older sister, Claudia (born 1950).
Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in La moglie più bella (aka The Most Beautiful Wife). She has primarily worked in Italian films but she made her English-speaking film debut as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon in 1980. American movies she appeared in include Love and Money (1982), Casanova (1987), Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1989), A Season of Giants (1990), Oscar (1991), Once Upon a Crime (1992), Somewhere in the City (1998) and To Rome with Love (2012).
She is mostly known to the French for appearing in a television commercial of Giovanni Panzani pasta. She was voted "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" in 1994 by a worldwide poll of readers of the magazine Class.
In 2008, Muti introduced her own line of jewellery. She opened new shops in Paris, Milan, Rome, Riga, Moscow and Almaty. She reportedly insured her breasts for $350,000.
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