Greta Scacchi

Greta Scacchi (born the February 18th 1960 with Milan, Italy) is an actress of Italian origin having been rewarded for a Emmy Award.

Biography

Scacchi is born from an English mother dancer and an Italian father, painter. His/her parents divorce when it is three years old, and his/her mother turns over in England with Greta and her two older brothers. In 1975, the family moves in Australia, her mother being remariée.

In 1977, Greta Scacchi turns over to England to launch out in a career of actress; she follows the school of theater of the Bristol Old Vic, with Miranda Richardson and Amanda Redman. In 1982, it makes its beginnings with the cinema in German film Das Zweite Gesicht ( The Second Face ) then is tested in various films like Heat and Dust (1983), White Mischief (1987), innocent Présumé (1990), The Player (1993), and Country Life (1994).

In 1996 it gains a Emmy Award for its contribution in the telefilm Raspoutine . It was this year member of the jury of Cannes. It was also nominated for a Golden Globe and other rewards.

Family life

Between 1983 and 1989, it attended the New Zealand singer Tim Finn. In 1991 she married the American actor Vincent D' Onofrio. This marriage lasted nearly eighteen months and a girl was born from it, Leila (March 20th, 1992).

She has also a son, Matteo, (born in 1998), with her cousin (and companion), Carlo Mantegazza.

Catalog of films

Das Zweite Gesicht (1982)
Dead One Time (1982/court), with Rowan Atkinson
Heat and dust ( Heat and Dust ) (1983), by James Ivory: Olivia
Waterfront (serial 1984): Anna Cherished
Camille (telefilm 1984): Marguerite Gautier
The Ebony Tower (1984): Diana, “the mouse”
Coca-Cola Kid (1985): Terri
Doctor Fischer of Geneva ( Dr. Fischer off Geneva 1985, Australian telefilm): Anna-shines Fischer
Burke & Wills (1985): Julia Matthews
Defense off the Realm (1985): Nina Beckman
a man in love (1987), by Diane Kurys: Jane Steiner
Good morning Babilonia (1987, Italian): Edna Bonnano
On the road of Nairobi ( White Mischief 1987): Lady Diana Broughton
Three sisters ( Paura E amore ) (1988): Maria
gave It beyond luna (1988, Italian): Angela
Supposed innocent (1990): Carolyn Polhemus
Cruel dilemma ( Fires Within ) (1991): Turbid Isabel
( Shattered ) (1991): Judith Merrick
Turtle Beach (1992): Judith
The Player (1992), by Robert Altman: June Gudmundsdottir
Salt one Our Skin (1992): George
The Browing Version (1994): Laura Crocker-Harris
pastoral Loves ( Country Life ) (1994): Deborah Voysey
Jefferson in Paris (1995), by James Ivory: Maria Cosway
Raspoutine (telefilm 1996): Tsarina Alexandra (rewarded for Emmy)
Cosi (1996): a patient
Emma, the intermediary (1996): Mrs. Weston, born Taylor
the Kiss of the snake ( The Serpent' S KIS ) (1997): Juliana
the Odyssey ( The Odyssey ) (telefilm 1997): Penelope

Macbeth (telefilm, 1998): Lady Macbeth

the red Violin (1998): Victoria Byrd (Oxford)

Coils and Rage (1998): Agnes MacDonnell

The Manor (1999): Mrs. Ravenscroft

Tom' S Midnight Garden (1999): aunt Gwen Kitson

Knitting machine Mary (1999), by Ismail Merchant: Lily Macintosh

Ladies Room (1999): Lucia

Looking for Alibrandi (2000): Christina Alibrandi

One off the Hollywood Ten (2000): Scale Sondergaard

Christmas Glory 2000 (telefilm 2000)

Festival in Cannes (2001): Alice Palmer

The Farm (serial TV 2001): Liz Cooper

Daniel Deronda (serial 2002): Lydia Glasher

Jeffrey Archer: The Truth (telefilm 2002): Margaret Thatcher

Baltic Storm (2003): Delle Julia Reuter

It Ronzio mosche (2003, Italian): Natalia

the Price of the desire ( Sotto falso names , 2004, filmed in Switzerland, dialogs in French with Italian): Nicoletta.

Beyond the Sea (2004): Mary Duvan

Flight Plan (2005): therapeutist

The Book Off Revelation (2006): Isabelle

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