Marina Berti

Marina Berti
Berti in 1951
Born	Elena Maureen Bertolino (1924-09-29)29 September 1924 London, England, UK
Died	29 October 2002(2002-10-29) (aged 78)[1] Rome, Italy
Resting place	Cimitero Flaminio, Rome
Nationality	Italian
Years active	1941–2002
Spouse	Claudio Gora ​ ​ (m. 1944; died 1998)​
Children	5, including Andrea and Marina Giordana

Elena Maureen Bertolino (29 September 1924 – 29 October 2002), known professionally as Marina Berti, was an Italian film actress. She was born in London from an Italian father and an English mother.^[2]

Biography

Her first screen appearance was in the Anna Magnani film, La Fuggitiva in 1941. She appeared mainly in small roles and in the occasional leading role in nearly 100 films both Italian and American. Her appearances include Quo Vadis (1951), Abdulla the Great (1955), Ben Hur (1959), Cleopatra (1963), If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974), Last Stop on the Night Train (1975), and the TV miniseries' Moses the Lawgiver (1975) and Jesus of Nazareth (1977). Her last film appearance was in the Costa-Gavras film Amen. in 2002.^{[citation needed]}

She was married to the Italian actor Claudio Gora from 1944 until his death in 1998. She is the mother of actor Andrea Giordana and actress Marina Giordana.^[3]

Berti died in 2002 in a Rome hospital after a long illness.

Selected filmography

Cinema

Television

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Marina Berti.

• Marina Berti at IMDb

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