Person Details

Birthday: 1909-07-05 17:29:08

Death: 1982-07-08 17:29:08

Aliases: Ines Isabella Sampietro

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Milan, Lombardy, Italy

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Movie Involvements: 44

TV Involvements: 1


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Isa Miranda (5 July 1909 – 8 July 1982) was an Italian actress with an international film career. She worked as a typist whilst attending the drama academy in Milan and training as a stage actress. She went on to play bit parts in Italian films in Rome. Success came with Max Ophüls' film La Signora di tutti (Everybody's Woman) (1934) in which she played Gaby Doriot, a famous film star and fascinating adventuress with whom men cannot help falling in love. Having brought several of them to their ruin, she slits her wrists. This was perhaps Miranda's finest screen performance and it brought in its wake several film offers and a Hollywood contract with Paramount Pictures. There, billed as the "Italian Marlene Dietrich", she played several femme fatale roles in such films as Hotel Imperial (1939) and Adventure in Diamonds (1940). She returned to Italy soon after the outbreak of World War II and continued to act on the stage and to make films. In 1949, she starred in René Clément's The Walls of Malapaga, which won an Academy Award for the most outstanding foreign language film of 1950, and for Miranda, the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Another success of that period was La Ronde (1950), also directed by Ophüls. Her career took her to France, Germany and England, where she frequently appeared in TV films, including The Avengers. Other notable film appearances include Siamo donne (1953), a portmanteau film where Miranda shares the screen with three other screen legends, Anna Magnani, Alida Valli and Ingrid Bergman, Summertime (1955), Gli Sbandati (1955), La Noia (The Empty Canvas, 1963), The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) and Liliana Cavani's Il portiere di notte (The Night Porter, 1974). Miranda was married to the Italian director and producer Alfredo Guarini until his death in 1981. She died in Rome in 1982. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isa Miranda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Most Famous Work

The Avengers
Average
8

The Avengers

(1961) Damita Syn
The Night Porter
Average
7

The Night Porter

(1974) Countess Stein
A Bay of Blood
Average
7

A Bay of Blood

(1971) Countess Federica Donati
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Average
7

The Shoes of the Fisherman

(1968) The Marchesa
Dorian Gray
Average
5

Dorian Gray

(1970) Mrs. Patricia Ruxton
The Walls of Malapaga
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6

The Walls of Malapaga

(1949) Marta Manfredini
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
Average
5

Roy Colt and Winchester Jack

(1970) Mamma Lizzy
The Empty Canvas
Average
7

The Empty Canvas

(1963) Cecilia's Mother

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1982 madre di Maria
1974 Lorè
Countess Stein
1972 Teacher
N/A
1971 Countess Federica Donati
Elena
1970 Mamma Lizzy
Sue's Mother
Mrs. Patricia Ruxton
Tenutaria bordello
1969 Mother
Elena
1968 The Marchesa
La duchesse de Bussez
1967 Isa Grant
1966 N/A
Une sage-femme
1964 Duchesse d'Angoulême
Rosa Marotta
Madame Benoit
Catherine de Medicis
1963 Cecilia's Mother
Mrs. Mattioli
N/A
1961 Damita Syn
1960 N/A
1959 la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie
1957 Betty Farnwell
Caterina Marchetti
Lucia Rossello
1956 N/A
1955 Mrs. Fischer
Contessa Luisa
Signora Fiorini
1954 La tsarine Alexandra
N/A
Françoise Boussard
1953 Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")
1952 Countess
Mrs. Alvaro (segment "Avarice and Anger")
1951 Angela Leonardi
1950 Charlotte
Marta Larocca
1949 Marta Manfredini
1948 N/A
Clarence Holbane
1945 Maria
N/A
1944 Zazà
1943 Sandra Morini
1942 Marina di Malombra
1941 Dina
1940 Regina
Felice Falcon
1939 Anna Warschawska
1937 Nina Petrovna
Velia, a Roman woman
Louise Paleari
1936 Mary Hofer & Bianca Monti
Mira Salviati
1935 Maria Brunetti
Nennele
1934 Una gigolette
Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot
Vera
1933 La donna cattiva
Year Character Movie/Tv

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