Marcello Mastroianni
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Marcello Mastroianni in 1958 |
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (
September 28,
1924 -
December 19,
1996) was an
Academy Award nominated
Italian film actor.
Born in Fontana Liri, a small village in the
Apennines, 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.
In
1945 he started working for a
film company and began taking acting lessons. His film debut was in
I Miserabili (from
Victor Hugo's
Les Misérables) in
1947.
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 was married to Italian actress
Flora Carabella (
1926 -
1999) from
1948 until his death. They had one child together, Barbara.
He also had a daughter,
Chiara Mastroianni, with his longtime mistress, the actress
Catherine Deneuve; both Flora and Catherine were at his bedside when he died of
pancreatic cancer at the age of 72.
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1988 â€"
Best Actor â€"
Dark Eyes [1]*
1978 â€"
Best Actor â€"
A Special Day [2]*
1963 â€"
Best Actor â€"
Divorce, Italian Style [3]*
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Classic Movies (1939 â€" 1969): Marcello Mastroianni*
Obituary, CNN* Chris Fujiwara,
"Dream lover: Marcello Mastroianni at the MFA"*
Marcello Mastroianni's Gravesite 
