Adriana Asti


Adriana Asti was an Italian stage, film and voice actress.

Life and career

Asti was born on 30 April 1931. She appeared in Dino Risi's short film Buio in sala, shot in 1948.
She made her theatrical debut in 1951 in Plautus' Miles Gloriosus with the Bolzano stock company, and achieved her first success with a part in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, directed by Luchino Visconti, who later cast her in his films Rocco and His Brothers and Ludwig.
On stage, she starred in Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw, Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, The Mistress of the Inn by Carlo Goldoni, and Three Men for Amalia. She won the SIAE prize in June 1990, and the Duse prize in December 1993. In 1999, she wrote and starred in Alcohol. In July 2000, she starred in French Ferdinand.
Asti died on 31 July 2025, at the age of 94.

Selected filmography