Marcello Mastroianni

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Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Mastroianni
Born	Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni 28 September 1924(1924-09-28) Fontana Liri, Italy
Died	19 December 1996 (aged 72) Paris, France
Years active	1947–1996
Spouse(s)	Flora Carabella (1926-1996)

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (28 September 1924 – 19 December 1996) was an Italian film actor.

[edit] Personal life

Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, a small village in the Apennines, the son of Ida (née Irolle) and Ottone Mastroianni, who ran a carpentry shop.^[1] Mastroianni grew up in Turin and Rome. During World War II, he was interned in a Nazi prison, but he escaped and hid in Venice. Mastroianni was married to Italian actress Flora Carabella (1926 - 1999) from 1948 until his death. They had one child together, Barbara. His brother Ruggero Mastroianni (1929 - 1996) was a highly regarded film editor who not only edited a number of his brother's films, but appeared alongside Marcello in Scipione detto anche l'Africano, a sword and sandals film released in 1971.

Mastroianni had a daughter, Chiara Mastroianni, with the actress Catherine Deneuve, his longtime lover during the seventies. Both Flora and Catherine were at his bedside when he died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 72, as was his partner at the time, author and filmmaker Anna Maria Tatò. According to Christopher Wiegand and Paul Duncan in their book Federico Fellini, when Mastroianni died in 1996, the Trevi Fountain, which is so famously associated with him due to his role in Fellini's La dolce vita, was symbolically turned off and draped in black as a tribute.

[edit] Career

In 1945, Mastroianni started working for a film company and began taking acting lessons. His first acting credit was in I Miserabili (1948). He soon became a major international star, starring in Big Deal on Madonna Street; and in Federico Fellini's La dolce vita with Anita Ekberg in 1960, where he played a disillusioned and self-loathing tabloid columnist who spends his days and nights exploring Rome's high society. Mastroianni followed La dolce vita with another signature role, that of a film director who, amidst self-doubt and troubled love affairs, finds himself in a creative block while making a movie in Fellini's 8½.

Mastroianni and Jack Lemmon are the only actors to have twice won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival. Mastroianni won in 1970 for Dramma della gelosia - tutti i particolari in cronaca and in 1987 for Dark Eyes.

[edit] Academy Award nominations

• 1962 – Best Actor – Divorce, Italian Style^[2]
• 1977 – Best Actor – A Special Day^[2]
• 1987 – Best Actor – Dark Eyes^[2]

[edit] Filmography

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Marcello Mastroianni at the Internet Movie Database
• Obituary, CNN
• Chris Fujiwara, "Dream lover: Marcello Mastroianni at the MFA"
• Marcello Mastroianni's Gravesite

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