Aurora Quattrocchi | |
|---|---|
 Quattrocchi in 2015 | |
| Born | 18 March 1943 (age 80) Matulji, Croatia |
| Occupation | Actress |
Aurora "Rori" Quattrocchi (born 18 March 1943) is an Italian television, stage and film actress.
Life and career
Born in Matulji (at the time part of the Kingdom of Italy with the name Mattuglie) where her Sicilian father was serving as an army officer,[1] at 5 years old Quattrocchi lost her mother and went to live in Palermo with her aunt and uncle.[2] She started her career on stage in the 1970s,[3] and made her film debut in 1989, in Marco Risi's Forever Mary.[4]
Among Quattrocchi's best known roles, there are Fortunata in Golden Door, which got her a Chlotrudis Award nomination,[4] and the mother in Nostalgia, for which Quattrocchi got David di Donatello and Nastro d'Argento nominations as bet supporting actress.[5][6] Quattrocchi was awarded the International Starlight Cinema Award for her career at the 79th Venice International Film Festival.[7]
Selected filmography
- Forever Mary directed by Marco Risi (1989)
- Boys on the Outside, directed by Marco Risi (1990)
- The Rebel, directed by Aurelio Grimaldi (1993)
- The Star Maker, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore (1995)
- One Hundred Steps, directed by Marco Tullio Giordana (2000)
- Malèna, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore (2000)
- The Council of Egypt, directed by Emidio Greco (2002)
- Un día de suerte, directed by Sandra Gugliotta (2002)
- Nati stanchi, directed by Dominick Tambasco (2002)
- Secret File, directed by Paolo Benvenuti (2003)
- Golden Door, directed by Emanuele Crialese (2006)
- Wild Blood, directed by Marco Tullio Giordana (2008)
- La fidanzata di papà, directed by Enrico Oldoini (2008)
- Palermo Shooting, directed by Wim Wenders (2008)
- Purple Sea, directed by Donatella Maiorca (2009)
- The Trick in the Sheet, directed by Alfonso Arau (2010)
- Scossa (segment: Speranza), directed by Carlo Lizzani (2011)
- It Was the Son, directed by Daniele Ciprì (2012)
- Amiche da morire, directed by Giorgia Farina (2013)
- Black Souls, directed by Francesco Munzi (2014)
- At War with Love, directed by Pif (2016)
- Friends by Chance, directed by Francesco Bruni (2017)
- Cetto c'è, senzadubbiamente, directed by Giulio Manfredonia (2019)
- Cruel Peter, directed by Christian Bisceglia and Ascanio Malgarini (2019)
- Nostalgia, directed by Mario Martone (2022)
- L'immensità, directed by Emanuele Crialese (2022)
- Strangeness, directed by Roberto Andò (2022)
- Spaccaossa, directed by Vincenzo Pirrotta (2022)
References
- ↑ Lo Porto, Giada (11 September 2022). "Aurora Quattrocchi: "Io, libera e appassionata, premiata a Venezia per la mia carriera"". la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 24 November 2023.
- ↑ La Valle, Susanna (3 August 2023). "Forse non ricordi il nome ma il suo viso non lo dimentichi: ritratto di Aurora Quattrocchi". Balarm (in Italian). Retrieved 24 November 2023.
- ↑ Amitrano, Vania (6 October 2022). "Aurora Quattrocchi, talento e fierezza inarrestabili". Ciak Magazine (in Italian). Retrieved 24 November 2023.
- 1 2 "Aurora Quattrocchi". Mymovies.it (in Italian). Retrieved 24 November 2023.
- ↑ "Nastri D'argento 2022 , dai film agli attori tutte le candidature". Sky TG24 (in Italian). 3 June 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
- ↑ Ascione, Arianna (5 October 2023). "David di Donatello 2023: nomination, candidature, tutto quello che c'è da sapere". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 24 November 2023.
- ↑ "Un premio alla carriera a Venezia per Aurora Quattrocchi". la Repubblica (in Italian). 6 September 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2023.