Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
4/21/1930
Place of Birth
Rome, Latium, Italy
Also Known As
실바나 망가노실바나 만가노Сильвана Мангано
Silvana Mangano
Biography
Silvana Mangano (21 April 1930 – 16 December 1989) was an Italian film actress. She was one of a generation of thespians who arose from the neorealist movement, and went on to become a major female star, regarded as a sex symbol in the 1950s and 1960s. She won the David di Donatello for Best Actress three times - for The Verona Trial (1963), The Witches (1967), and The Scientific Cardplayer (1973) – and the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress twice.
Raised in poverty during World War II, Mangano trained as a dancer and worked as a model before winning a Miss Rome beauty pageant in 1946. This le...
Known For
Ulysses
as Circe / Penelope
Dune
as Reverend Mother Ramallo
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
as Silvia
Barabbas
as Rachel
Oedipus Rex
as Jocasta, Queen of Thebes (and unnamed Italian young mother)
Ludwig
as Cosima von Bülow
The Witches
as Gloria / Lady in a Hurry / Assurdina Caì / Nunzia / Giovanna
Mambo
as Giovanna Masetti
Anna
as Anna
Black Magic
as (uncredited)
Bitter Rice
as Silvana
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
as Emanuela
The Great War
as Costantina
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
My Wife
as The wife (segments "L'uccellino", "L'automobile") / Clara (segment "I miei cari") / Eritrea (segment "Eritrea") / Luciana (segment "Luciana")
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
as Self (archive footage)
Dark Eyes
as Elisa
Theorem
as Lucia, the Mother
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
as Marina
Lure of the Sila
as Rosaria Campolo