Nicoletta Braschi
Actor
Biography
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Nicoletta Braschi (born April 14, 1960) is an Italian actress and producer, best known for her work with her husband, actor and director Roberto Benigni.
Born in Cesena, Braschi studied in Rome's Academy of Dramatic Arts where she first met Benigni in 1980. Her first film was with Benigni in 1983, the comedy Tu Mi Turbi ("You Upset Me"). She later appeared in two Jim Jarmusch films, Down by Law and Mystery Train.
Braschi's two most successful collaborations with her husband have been Johnny Stecchino (1992) and La Vita è Bella (Life is Beautiful) (1997). The first, an Italian comedy that cast the actress as the girlfriend of a mobster (Benigni), was a huge hit in Italy; while the second, in which Braschi played the wife of an Italian Jew (Benigni) imprisoned in a concentration camp, was a widely-praised success that launched both Braschi and her husband into the international spotlight.
She was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award as a cast member of Life is Beautiful. She is also a David di Donatello award winner (Italy's equivalent of the Oscars).
In 2002, she was a member of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival.
In 2010 she has returned to theatre starring in "Tradimenti".
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Filmography
Johnny Stecchino
as Maria 1991
Down by Law
as Nicoletta 1986
Pinocchio
as Blue Fairy 2002
Happy as Lazzaro
as Marchesa Alfonsina De Luna 2018
The Monster
as Jessica Rossetti 1994
The Tiger and the Snow
as Vittoria 2005
Mystery Train
as Luisa 1989
Ovosodo
as Giovanna Fornari 1997
The Little Devil
as Nina 1988
The Sheltering Sky
as French Woman 1990
The White Crow
as Claire's Mother 2018
Son of the Pink Panther
as Jacqueline Gambrelli 1993
Pereira Declares
as Marta 1995
You Upset Me
as Maria 1983
Who Killed Pasolini?
as Graziella Chiarcossi 1995
I Like to Work – Mobbing
as Anna 2004