Laura Antonelli
Date of birth: 1941-11-28
Place of birth: Pola, Croatia
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Laura Antonaz, لورا آنتونلی
Biography
Laura Antonelli (née Antonaz; 28 November 1941 – 22 June 2015) was an Italian film actress, who appeared in 45 films between 1964 and 1991, and she is best known for the movie Malizia. Antonelli was born Laura Antonaz in Pola, Kingdom of Italy (in Croatian, Pula), former capital of Istria. After the war, her parents fled what was then Yugoslavia, lived in Italian refugee camps and eventually settled in Naples, where her father found work as a hospital administrator. Antonelli had a childhood interest in mathematics, but as a teenager, she became proficient at gymnastics. In an interview for The New York Times, she recalled, "My parents had made me take hours of gym classes during my teens ... They felt I was ugly, clumsy, insignificant and they hoped I would at least develop some grace. I became very good, especially in rhythmical gym, which is a kind of dance." Setting aside ambitions to make a career in mathematics, she graduated as a gymnastics instructor. She moved to Rome, where she became a secondary-school gym teacher and was able to meet people in the entertainment industry, who helped her find modelling jobs. Antonelli's earliest engagements included Italian advertisements for Coca-Cola. In 1965, she made her first feature-film appearance in Le sedicenni, although her performance went uncredited. Her American debut came in 1966 in Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs. Other roles followed; her breakthrough came in 1973's Malizia. She appeared in a number of sex farces such as Till Marriage Do Us Part/Mio Dio come sono caduta in basso!. She worked in more serious films, as well, including Luchino Visconti's last film, The Innocent (1976). In Wifemistress, a romance film of 1977, she played a repressed wife experiencing a sexual awakening. Later, she appeared in Passione d'Amore (1981). From 1986 she mostly worked on Italian television series. Antonelli's final film role was in the sequel Malizia 2000 (1991), following which she retired. She won the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Award, Nastro d'Argento, in 1974 for Malizia. Antonelli was married to publisher Enrico Piacentini but they divorced. From 1972 to 1980, she was the companion of actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. On 27 April 1991, cocaine was found during a police raid on Antonelli's home. She was subsequently convicted of possession and dealing and sentenced to house arrest. She spent ten years appealing the conviction, which was eventually overturned. In 2006, the Italian court of appeals ruled in favor of Antonelli and ordered the Ministry of Justice to pay the actress 108,000 euros. Antonelli died on 22 June 2015, aged 73, from a heart attack. Source: Article "Laura Antonelli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Movie Credits
The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971-04-07
Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divor
The Innocent
1976-05-18
Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes
The Eroticist
1972-03-16
Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead
Wifemistress
1977-10-27
A vineyard's manager marries the owner's very young daughter; father dies. Deceit, infidelity. The h
Malicious
1973-03-29
A widower and two of his sons become infatuated by their beautiful housekeeper, and all three set ou
Department Store
1986-06-06
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big depart
The Divine Nymph
1975-10-16
In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them ag
Bali
1970-12-29
The wife of a European photographer on assignment in exotic Bali falls for an enigmatic ex patriot u
Viuuulentemente mia
1982-10-21
Clumsy public security officer helps an adventurer (Laura Antonelli) to escape from Italy. In order
Tigers in Lipstick
1979-03-16
8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2
Scoundrel in White
1972-09-29
Paul, a former womanizer, marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Chris
Secret Fantasy
1971-09-22
Niccolò Vivaldi is a cello player and he plays in Arena di Verona Orchestra. But he is not the first
Rimini Rimini
1987-02-27
Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort to
Lovers and Other Relatives
1974-06-06
Sandro dreams about a woman older than himself. He works as a lifeguard at the beach and at the same
A Man Called Sledge
1970-11-14
James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash of g
Hypochondriac
1979-12-20
During the year 1673, Rome was besieged by poverty and violence. The rich Mr. Argante has two servan
The Miser
1990-04-06
Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on co
The Venetian Woman
1986-04-04
Venice, sixteenth century. Giulio, a foreign gentleman spends a memorable night in the city where he
Till Marriage Do Us Part
1974-10-24
The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their
Black Journal
1977-11-24
A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering a
Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs
1966-07-29
The scheming mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) plots another mad scheme to take over the wo
Stuff for the Rich
1987-11-13
3 episodes set in Monte Carlo. In the first one a priest is compelled to become the lover of a princ
Slices of Life
1985-02-06
A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's
Senza malizia
2023-07-05
The Trap
1985-09-11
A woman becomes obsessed with a man she can't have, and carries the torch for more than 15 years.
Venus in Furs
1969-11-25
Based on the infamous novel by Leopold Sacher-Masoch this fine film follows the perverted passions o
I'm Getting a Yacht
1980-12-23
A dentist buys a small yacht and takes his two children on a cruise of the Mediterranean. His ex-wif
How Funny Can Sex Be?
1973-12-19
How Funny Can Sex Be? is an nine-episode anthology film about love, sex and marriage in contemporary
Simona
1974-02-22
While at a bullfight Simona begins flashing back to a torrid sexual relationship she had with George
Holy Cow
1982-09-23
When a stage artist is send to fight he met a lovely girl.
Sesso e volentieri
1982-10-14
Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.
Passion of Love
1981-09-16
In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from
Without Apparent Motive
1971-09-15
A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge
The Archangel
1969-07-02
Furio Bertuccia, a corruptible lawyer who defends lost causes, is hired by the glamorous model Glori
Chaste and Pure
1981-10-30
Antonio is married to a very wealthy woman but the sole heir of the family fortune is his daughter.
Time of Indifference
1991-04-21
A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her
Malizia 2000
1991-11-01
The teenage son of an architect falls for an older woman, an attractive housewife of his father's cl
The Sexual Revolution
1968-11-21
Fourteen people of different ages - seven men and seven women - gather in a comfortable hotel by the
Il turno
1981-09-18
Gradiva
1970-01-01
After unearthing an ancient bas-relief sculpture of the gradiva or ‘woman who walks’ a young archaeo
Le sedicenni
1965-12-24
The Magnificent Cuckold
1964-10-19
Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
1966-12-23
A successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons,
Detective Belli
1969-09-06
A crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in murd