Giuliana De Sio

Actress

April 2, 1956 (70 years)

Salerno, Campania, Italy

Biography

Giuliana De Sio (Salerno, 2 April 1956) is an Italian actress, winner of two David di Donatello awards. Her first main role was in 1977 RAI TV film Una donna, based on the novel by Sibilla Aleramo. The following year she was given a part in the Rai TV series Le mani sporche (Dirty Hands), alongside Marcello Mastroianni. De Sio was romantically involved for four years with Elio Petri, whom she met during the filming of the series, directed by him. She lived with him until his untimely death in 1…

Filmography

9.0

Bambi

Self

The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.

3.7

Wolffs Revier

Wanda Treptow

Wolffs Revier is a German television series.

7.8

The Octopus

Giulia Antinari

An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.

7.7

Ciao Darwin

Capitana Quarantenni

Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.

7.4

L'onore e il rispetto

Concetta De Nicola

L'onore e il rispetto is an Italian television series. There are three seasons, each with six episodes: first season aired in 2006, second in 2009 and third in 2012. First season was directed by Salvatore Samperi, second by Samperi and Luigi Parisi, third by Parisi and Alessio Inturri. On October 2, 2012 Gabriel Garko announced through an interview with Tgcom 24 [1], which will soon turn a fourth season of the TV series.

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TV Story Superstar

Self (archive footage)

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7.0

Crimes

Laura

Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)

8.7

Il peccato e la vergogna

Bigiù

In Rome in the thirties lives Nito Valdi, a difficult boy just out of the reformatory, who works for a local boss together with his friend Tony. The meeting with the beautiful Carmen will take Nito's life to an unexpected turn: after the loss of his greatest friend, with the arrival of fascism Valdi approaches the Blackshirts, while he becomes Carmen's worst nightmare. Nito is obsessed with her and wants her at any cost. But Carmen is expecting a child with Giancarlo, scion of one of the most prominent families in Rome: the Fontamaras. The story of Carmen and Nito, who turns out to be a Nazi psychopath, is intertwined with that of the Fontamaras, who have just discovered that they have Jewish origins and therefore must leave Italy to avoid falling victim to those like Valdi.

4.5

Der Kapitän

Dr. Sophia Minardi

Der Kapitän is a German television series.

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Caterina e le sue figlie

Concetta Melita 'Cetty' Saponero dal Puozzo

Caterina e le sue figlie is an Italian television series that aired from December 4, 2005 to March 3, 2010 on Canale 5. The comedy series follows single mother Catherine as she tries to balance raising three daughters alone and dating.

7.5

Furore il vento della speranza

Irma Voglino

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6.5

Cuore

Maestrina dalla penna rossa

Enrico Bottini, an engineering student, prepares to serve as an officer when Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. At the train station, he meets Garrone, an old friend from elementary school, and begins to reminisce on the values instilled to him by both school and his father.

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Amore pensaci tu

Tina

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3.5

Il bello delle donne... alcuni anni dopo

Annalisa Bottelli

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9.0

Rodolfo Valentino - La leggenda

Alla Nazimova

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7.0

Beauty Centre

Annalisa Bottelli Renzi Di Balsano

The story begins with the return of Anna Borsi from the summer holiday, with her children Sara and Michelino and with the subsequent discovery of the death of her husband, Armando. Anna finds herself facing a sea of debts, but advised by her husband's accountant, Francesca Cialdi, and helped by the hairdresser Luca Manfridi and the interior decorator Vicky Melzi, she decides to open a hairdressing shop for ladies: "Il Bello delle Donne".

9.0

Dirty Hands

Jessica

The story is set in Illyria, fictional central European country, towards the end of World War II. A young man infiltrates into the house of a left-wing politician as his secretary. By order of the Communist party, the young man has to kill the politician, who is suspected of a strategy of compromise with other parties.

5.5

I picari

Rosario, the prostitute

The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.

6.0

Mogli a pezzi

Armida Casoni

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7.0

Let's Hope It's a Girl

Franca

A multifaceted exploration of the pointlessness of sexual stereotypes. Liv Ullmann is a countess who, after her divorce, takes over the family farm. Realizing that she can't rely on the patriarchal society structure for assistance, Ullmann runs the farm herself with the help of her female servants and relatives. When the Count (Philipe Noiret) comes back into her life, he and his male buddies find themselves outclassed by the expertise of the ladies.