Anna Magnani (pronounced: mahn-YANEE; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo.
Born in Rome to an Egyptian father and an Italian mother, she worked her way through Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs. During her career, her only child was stricken by polio when he was 18 months old and remained crippled.
She was referred to as "La Lupa," the "perennial toast of Rome" and a "living she-wolf symbol" of the cinema. Time magazine described her personality as "fiery", and drama critic Harold Clurman said her acting was "volcanic". In the realm of Italian cinema, she was "passionate, fearless, and exciting," an actress that film historian Barry Monush calls "the volcanic earth mother of all Italian cinema." Director Roberto Rossellini called her "the greatest acting genius since Eleonora Duse. Playwright Tennessee Williams became an admirer of her acting and wrote The Rose Tattoo specifically for her to star in, a role for which she received her first Oscar in 1955.
After meeting director Goffredo Alessandrini she received her first screen role in La cieca di Sorrento (The Blind Woman of Sorrento) (1934) and later achieved international fame in Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945), considered the first significant movie to launch the Italian neorealism movement in cinema. As an actress she became recognized for her dynamic and forceful portrayals of "earthy lower-class women" in such films as The Miracle (1948), Bellissima (1951), The Rose Tattoo (1955), The Fugitive Kind (1960), with Marlon Brando and directed by Sidney Lumet, and Mamma Roma (1962). As early as 1950, Life magazine had already stated that Magnani was "one of the most impressive actresses since Garbo".
| 2021 | Noi siamo cinema as Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo as Self - Actress (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita as Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | La Passione di Anna Magnani as Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Quand Jean devint Renoir as Camilla (archive footage) |
| 2016 | Luchino Visconti, entre vérité et passion as Self (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Kız Arkadaş Komada as Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2012 | La guerra dei vulcani as Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Vittorio D. as Self (archive footage) |
| 2008 | Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità as (archive footage) |
| 2006 | My Dad Is 100 Years Old as Pina (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2006 | Il était une fois... « Rome, ville ouverte » as Self (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Bellissime as (archive footage) |
| 2003 | Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album as Gioia (archive footage) |
| 1998 | Rossellini sotto il vulcano as Maddalena Natoli (archive footage) |
| 1994 | Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage as Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage) |
| 1993 | Rossellini visto da Rossellini as Self (archive footage) |
| 1985 | Bellissimo: Immagini del cinema italiano as Self |
| 1980 | Io sono Anna Magnani as Self (archive footage) |
| 1972 | Roma as Anna Magnani |
| 1972 | ...Correva l'anno di grazia 1870 as Teresa Parenti |
| 1971 | Tre donne - L'automobile as Anna |
| 1971 | Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro as Jolanda |
| 1971 | Tre donne - La sciantosa as Flora Torres |
| 1970 | Kasabanın Sırrı as Rosa |
| 1967 | Cinéma et Réalité as Self |
| 1965 | Made in Italy as Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3") |
| 1963 | Le magot de Josefa as Josefa |
| 1962 | Mamma Roma as Mamma Roma |
| 1960 | Risate di gioia as Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti |
| 1960 | The Fugitive Kind as Lady Torrance |
| 1959 | Nella città l'inferno as Egle |
| 1957 | Wild Is the Wind as Gioa |
| 1956 | Suor Letizia as suor Letizia |
| 1955 | Kırmızı Gül as Serafina Delle Rose |
| 1955 | Carosello del varietà |
| 1953 | Anna Magnani |
| 1953 | Siamo donne as Anna (segment "Anna Magnani") |
| 1952 | Le Carrosse d'or as Camilla |
| 1952 | Camicie rosse as Anita Garibaldi |
| 1952 | Bellissima as Maddalena Cecconi |
| 1950 | The Ways of Love as Nannina |
| 1950 | Vulcano as Maddalena Natoli |
| 1948 | L'amore as The woman (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo") |
| 1948 | Molti sogni per le strade as Linda Bertoni |
| 1948 | Assunta Spina as Assunta Spina |
| 1948 | Lo sconosciuto di San Marino as Liana, la prostituta |
| 1947 | L'onorevole Angelina as Angelina Bianchi |
| 1946 | Abbasso la ricchezza! as Gioconda Perfetti |
| 1946 | Il bandito as Lidia |
| 1946 | Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma as Ada |
| 1946 | Un uomo ritorna as Adele Vicarelli |
| 1945 | Abbasso la miseria! as Nannina Straselli |
| 1945 | Roma, Açık Şehir as Pina |
| 1945 | Quartetto pazzo as Elena |
| 1944 | Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi as Maria Comasco, l'attrice |
| 1943 | L'ultima carrozzella as Mary Dunchetti |
| 1943 | Campo de' fiori as Elide |
| 1943 | La vita è bella as Virginia |
| 1943 | L'avventura di Annabella as La mondana |
| 1942 | La fortuna viene dal cielo as Zizì |
| 1942 | Finalmente soli as Ninetta |
| 1941 | Teresa Venerdì as Loletta Prima |
| 1941 | La fuggitiva as Wanda Reni |
| 1940 | Una lampada alla finestra as Ivana |
| 1938 | La principessa Tarakanova as Marietta, la cameriera |
| 1936 | 30 secondi d'amore as Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio |
| 1936 | Cavalleria as Fanny |
| 1935 | Quei due as Pierotta |
| 1934 | Tempo massimo as Emilia - la cameriera |
| 1934 | La Cieca Di Sorrento as Anna, la sua amante |
| 1928 | Das Mädchen der Strasse |
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