Pina Menichelli
Age: 94 | From: Castroreale, Sicily, Italy
Person Details
Birthday: 1890-01-11 20:28:03
Death: 1984-08-29 20:28:03
Aliases: Giuseppa Iolanda Menichelli
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Castroreale, Sicily, Italy
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Movie Involvements: 6
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
Giuseppa Iolanda Menichelli (10 January 1890 – 29 August 1984), known professionally as Pina Menichelli, was an Italian actress. After a career in theatre and a series of small film roles, Menichelli was launched as a film star when Giovanni Pastrone gave her the lead role in The Fire (1916). Over the next nine years, Menichelli made a series of films, often trading on her image as a diva and on her passionate, decadent eroticism. Menichelli became a global star, and one of the most appreciated actresses in Italian cinema, before her retirement in 1924, aged 34. Since her death, restorations of Menichelli's surviving films have been shown at important film festivals, and her filmography has been re-assembled and re-evaluated by film historians.
Most Famous Work
A Woman's Story
(1920) Beatrice
The Fire
(1916) Poet
La Moglie di Claudio
(1918) Cesraina Ruper
Royal Tiger
(1916) Countess Natka
The Railway Owner
(1919) Clara de Beaulieu
Italia - Fire and Ashes
(2021) (Archive footage)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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| 1999 | N/A | |
| 1923 | N/A | |
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| 1922 | N/A | |
| 1921 | N/A | |
| Margherita | ||
| 1920 | Beatrice | |
| 1919 | Clara de Beaulieu | |
| 1918 | Cesraina Ruper | |
| N/A | ||
| 1916 | Countess Natka | |
| Poet | ||
| 1915 | N/A | |
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| 1913 | Wife | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
