Maria Michi
Actor
Biography
Maria Michi (14 May 1921 – 7 April 1980) was an Italian supporting actress who worked with Roberto Rossellini on his two early neorealism masterpieces: Rome, Open City and Paisà.
Michi worked first as a typist at a law firm, then as an usherette at Teatro Quattro Fontane in Rome. She was noticed and given small parts in the company of Sergio Tofano and Diana Torrieri during the 1942-1943 season. Critic Irene Bignardi called her "a woman very near the resistance and the Communist Party". In 1948, she worked with Christian-Jaque in La Chartreuse de Parme. She was married in September 1949 to Duke Augusto Torlonia, and left the world of cinema for the theater, particularly working with director Guido Salvini. The marriage was annulled in San Marino in 1956. She resumed her film career in the 1960s and 1970s, when she did 12 films, including Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris and Tinto Brass's Salon Kitty, her last film.
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Filmography
Rome, Open City
as Marina Mari 1945
Paisan
as Francesca 1946
What Have You Done to Solange?
as Brenda's Mother (uncredited) 1972
Salon Kitty
as Hilde 1976
The Breach
as La Troisième Parque 1970
The Charterhouse of Parma
as Marietta 1948
Redneck
as Princess 1973
The Lady of Monza
as Sister Bianca Homati 1969
Down the Ancient Stairs
as la pazza aggressiva 1975
Mont-Dragon
as Hortense Dubois - la femme d'Armand 1970
Fatalità
as Paola 1947
Brothers Blue
as Mama Blue 1973
The Laws of War
as signora Macusar 1961
Preludio d'amore
1946
L'altra
as 'Angelo' Morelli 1947
Irene, Irene
as Maria 1975