Marina Berti

Marina Berti
Marina Berti in 1951
Born	Elena Maureen Bertolini (1924-09-29)29 September 1924 London, England
Died	29 October 2002(2002-10-29) (aged 78) Rome, Italy
Resting place	Cimitero Flaminio, Rome
Nationality	Italian
Years active	1941–2002
Spouse	Claudio Gora ​ (m. 1944⁠–⁠1998)​ (his death) (5 children)
Children	Carlo Giordana Andrea Giordana Marina Giordana Luca Giordana Cristina Giordana

Elena Maureen Bertolini, known as Marina Berti, (29 September 1924 – 29 October 2002) was an English-born Italian film actress.

Her first screen appearance was in the Anna Magnani film, La Fuggitiva in 1941. She appeared mainly in small roles and in the occasional leading role in nearly 100 films both Italian and American. Her appearances include Quo Vadis (1951), Abdulla the Great (1955), Ben Hur (1959), Cleopatra (1963), If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974), Night Train Murders (1975), and the TV miniseries' Moses the Lawgiver (1975) and Jesus of Nazareth (1977). Her last film appearance was in the Costa-Gavras film Amen. in 2002.

Selected filmography

• La fuggitiva (1941) - Lucia, l'assistente de Lia (uncredited)
• Divieto di sosta (1941)
• Giacomo l'idealista (1943) - Celestina
• La valle del diavolo (1943) - Greta Hansel
• La primadonna (1943) - Ester
• La storia di una capinera (1943) - Maria Anselmi
• La donna della montagna (1944) - Zosi
• The Gates of Heaven (1945) - La crocerossina
• The Ten Commandments (1945) - (segment "Non desiderare la roba d'altri")
• The Testimony (1946) - Linda
• Notte di tempesta (1946) - Caterina
• Sinfonia fatale (1947) - Mirella
• Preludio d'amore (1947) - Anna
• Veglia nella notte (1948)
• The Earth Cries Out (1949) - Dina
• Prince of Foxes (1949) - Angela Borgia
• Sicilian Uprising (1949) - Laura
• The Sky Is Red (1950) - Carla
• Deported (1950) - Gina Carapia
• Hearts at Sea (1950) - (uncredited)
• Il sentiero dell'odio (1950)
• Up Front (1951) - Emi Rosso
• The Black Captain (1951) - Barbara Vivaldi
• Quo Vadis (1951) - Eunice
• Operation Mitra (1951)
• The Queen of Sheba (1952) - Zamira, betrothed of Rehoboam
• La colpa di una madre (1952) - Alma
• Carne inquieta (1952) - Fema Ferrara
• Eager to Live (1953) - Lucia
• At the Edge of the City (1953) - Luisa
• Casta Diva (1954) - Beatrice Turina
• I cavalieri della regina (1954) - Jacqueline Planchet
• Abdulla the Great (1955) - Aziza
• Faccia da mascalzone (1956)
• Marie Antoinette Queen of France (1956) - Comtesse de Polignac
• Il canto dell'emigrante (1956) - Mara
• The Knight of the Black Sword (1956) - Contessa Laura
• Le avventure dei tre moschettieri (1957) - Jacqueline Planchet
• Le avventure di Roby e Buck (1957)
• Ben Hur (1959) - Flavia (uncredited)
• Un eroe del nostro tempo (1960)
• Madame Sans-Gêne (1962) - Elisa Bonaparte
• Jessica (1962) - Filippella Risino
• Damon and Pythias (1962) - Mereka - Nerissa's Friend
• Swordsman of Siena (1962) - Countess of Osta
• Cleopatra (1963) - Queen at Tarsus (uncredited)
• Face in the Rain (1963) - Anna
• Monsieur (1964) - Madame Danoni
• Le conseguenze (1964) - Elena
• Made in Italy (1965) - Bored Diner (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 1")
• An Angel for Satan (1966) - Illa
• The Stranger Returns (aka A Man, a Horse, a Gun) (1967) - Ethel
• Qualcuno ha tradito (1967) - Ann
• Temptation (1969)
• If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969) - Gina
• Hate Is My God (1969) - Blanche Durand
• Strada senza uscita (1969) - Mother of Sergio
• Safety Catch (1970) - La soeur d'Alberta
• La califfa (1970) - Clementine Doberdò - la moglie di Annibale
• Tre nel mille (1971)
• Pianeta Venere (1972)
• Buona parte di Paolina (1973)
• What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974) - Mrs. Polvesi
• The Divine Nymph (1974-1975) - Manoela's Aunt
• Night Train Murders (1975) - Laura Stradi - madre di una delle vittime
• Moses the Lawgiver (1975) - Eliseba
• Don Milani (1976) - La professoressa
• Garofano rosso (1976)
• Jesus of Nazareth (1977) - Elizabeth
• A Spiral of Mist (1977) - Constanza San Germano
• The Repenter (1985)
• L'ultima mazurka (1986) - Signora in treno
• La posta in gioco (1988)
• Ostinato destino (1992) - Eva Meyer
• Dall'altra parte del mondo (1992)
• Amen. (2002) - La Principessa (Last appearance)

She was married to the Italian actor Claudio Gora from 1944 until his death in 1998. She was the mother of actresses Andrea Giordana and Marina Giordana.

External links

• Marina Berti at IMDb
• Marina Berti at Find a Grave