Giulietta Masina

Giulietta Masina was born on Feb 22, 1921 in Italy. Giulietta Masina's big-screen debut came with Paisan directed by Roberto Rossellini in 1946. Giulietta Masina is known for Ginger & Fred directed by Federico Fellini, Giulietta Masina stars as Amelia 'Ginger' Bonetti and Marcello Mastroianni as Pippo 'Fred' Botticella. Giulietta Masina has got 14 awards and 5 nominations so far. The most recent award Giulietta Masina achieved is Berlin International Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Giulietta Masina plays is Ginger & Fred which will be released on Mar 28, 1986.

Born in San Giorgio di Piano, Giulietta Masina spent part of her teenage years living with a widowed aunt in Rome, where she cultivated a passion for the theater and studied for a degree in Philosophy. She began her career on the radio with the program "Terzoglio" (1942), about the adventures of newlyweds Cico and Pallina from scripts written by Federico Fellini. The series brought her great success. The following year she married Fellini and became the inspirational muse for many of his films.She made her cinema debut in Senza pietà (1948), directed by Alberto Lattuada, but really established her reputation with her next few films: Persiane chiuse (1951), directed by Luigi Comencini, Luci del varietà (1950), which also marked Fellini's debut as director (the film credits both Fellini and Lattuada); and Europa '51 (1952), directed by Roberto Rossellini. Her artistic partnership with her husband really took off with the Oscar-winning La Strada (1954), followed by Il Bidone (1955) and the widely acclaimed Le notti di Cabiria (1957), which again won an Oscar and brought her the award for Best Female Performance at the Cannes Film Festival. Over the following years she played many memorable roles in such films as Fortunella (1958), directed by Eduardo De Filippo; Nella città l'inferno (1959), directed by Renato Castellani; and later in Giulietta degli spiriti (1965) and Ginger e Fred (1986), both directed by Fellini.From 1966 to 1969 she hosted the immensely popular radio show "Lettere aperte a Giulietta Masina" and starred in the television series Eleonora (1973), by Tullio Pinelli, directed by Silverio Blasi, and Camilla (1976), directed by Sandro Bolchi, based on the novel by Fausta Cialente, "Un inverno freddissimo" (1966).She died in Rome in 1994, just a few months after the death of her husband.