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Profile of Marcello Mastroianni on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Marcello Mastroianni  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 28th September 1924
   
Place of Birth: Fontana Liri, Latium, Italy
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
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Marcello Mastroianni in 1958

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (September 28, 1924 – December 19, 1996) was an 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 romantic star, starring in Big Deal on Madonna Street; and especially when Federico Fellini cast him in La Dolce Vita with Anita Ekberg in 1960.

He followed that with another signature role, that of a frustrated, womanizing film director in Fellini's 8½.

Mastroianni was married to the Italian actress Flora Carabella (1926-1999), who appeared in many films including "Lunatics and Lovers" and "A Night Full of Rain", from 1948 until his death; they had one child, 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.

Academy Award Nominations

  • 1988 - Best Actor - Dark Eyes
  • 1978 - Best Actor - A Special Day
  • 1963 - Best Actor - Divorce, Italian Style

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