Laura Antonelli

Laura Antonelli

Laura Antonelli (née Antonaz; 28 November 1941 – 22 June 2015) was an Italian film actress, who appeared in 45 films between 1964 and 1991, and she is best known for the movie Malizia. Antonelli was born Laura Antonaz in Pola, Kingdom of Italy (in Croatian, Pula), former capital of Istria. After the war, her parents fled what was then Yugoslavia, lived in Italian refugee camps and eventually settled in Naples, where her father found work as a hospital administrator. Antonelli had a childhood interest in mathematics, but as a teenager, she became proficient at gymnastics. In an interview for The New York Times, she recalled, "My parents had made me take hours of gym classes during my teens ... They felt I was ugly, clumsy, insignificant and they hoped I would at least develop some grace. I became very good, especially in rhythmical gym, which is a kind of dance." Setting aside ambitions to make a career in mathematics, she graduated as a gymnastics instructor. She moved to Rome, where she became a secondary-school gym teacher and was able to meet people in the entertainment industry, who helped her find modelling jobs. Antonelli's earliest engagements included Italian advertisements for Coca-Cola. In 1965, she made her first feature-film appearance in Le sedicenni, although her performance went uncredited. Her American debut came in 1966 in Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs. Other roles followed; her breakthrough came in 1973's Malizia. She appeared in a number of sex farces such as Till Marriage Do Us Part/Mio Dio come sono caduta in basso!. She worked in more serious films, as well, including Luchino Visconti's last film, The Innocent (1976). In Wifemistress, a romance film of 1977, she played a repressed wife experiencing a sexual awakening. Later, she appeared in Passione d'Amore (1981). From 1986 she mostly worked on Italian television series. Antonelli's final film role was in the sequel Malizia 2000 (1991), following which she retired. She won the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Award, Nastro d'Argento, in 1974 for Malizia. Antonelli was married to publisher Enrico Piacentini but they divorced. From 1972 to 1980, she was the companion of actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. On 27 April 1991, cocaine was found during a police raid on Antonelli's home. She was subsequently convicted of possession and dealing and sentenced to house arrest. She spent ten years appealing the conviction, which was eventually overturned. In 2006, the Italian court of appeals ruled in favor of Antonelli and ordered the Ministry of Justice to pay the actress 108,000 euros. Antonelli died on 22 June 2015, aged 73, from a heart attack. Source: Article "Laura Antonelli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Senza malizia
2023
Time of Indifference
1991
Lisa
Malizia 2000
1991
Angela
The Miser
1990
Frosina
Rimini Rimini
1987
Noce Bove
Stuff for the Rich
1987
Mapi Petruzzell (2° episodio)
Department Store
1986
Helèna Anzellotti, moglie del capo del personale
The Venetian Woman
1986
Angela
Slices of Life
1985
Monica Belli, la star
The Trap
1985
Marie Colbert
Viuuulentemente mia
1982
Anna Tassotti Maloni
Holy Cow
1982
Marianna
Sesso e volentieri
1982
Carla De Dominicis / Supermarket client / The Princess
Passion of Love
1981
Clara
Chaste and Pure
1981
Rosa Di Maggio
Il turno
1981
Stellina Ravi
I'm Getting a Yacht
1980
Roberta
Tigers in Lipstick
1979
The Businesswoman
Hypochondriac
1979
Tonietta
Wifemistress
1977
Antonia De Angelis
Black Journal
1977
Sandra
The Innocent
1976
Giuliana Hermil
The Divine Nymph
1975
Manoela Roderighi
Lovers and Other Relatives
1974
Laura
Till Marriage Do Us Part
1974
Eugenia di Maqueda
Simona
1974
Simona
Malicious
1973
Angela
How Funny Can Sex Be?
1973
Madame Juliette ('Signora sono le 8') / Celestina ('Due cuori e una baracca') / Enrico's Wife ('Non è mai troppo tardi') / Grazia ('Viaggio di nozze') / Tamara ('Torna piccina mia') / The Nun ('Lavoratore italiano all'estero') / Donna Mimma Maccò ('La vendetta') / Tiziana ('L'ospite')
The Eroticist
1972
suor Delicata
Scoundrel in White
1972
Martine Dupont
The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971
Pauline de Géran
Secret Fantasy
1971
Costanza Vivaldi
Without Apparent Motive
1971
Juliette Vaudreuil
Bali
1970
Daria
A Man Called Sledge
1970
Ria
Gradiva
1970
Gradiva
Venus in Furs
1969
Wanda von Dunajew
The Archangel
1969
Elena (uncredited)
Detective Belli
1969
Franca (uncredited)
The Sexual Revolution
1968
Stella
Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs
1966
Rosanna
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
1966
Piera Conforti
Le sedicenni
1965
The Magnificent Cuckold
1964
Guest with a Beehive Hairdo at the Artusis (uncredited)