Anna Maria Ferrero


Anna Maria Ferrero was an Italian actress.

Early life and career

Born Anna Maria Guerra, she changed her last name to Ferrero in honor of the composer Willy Ferrero. Her film debut came at the age of 15 in The Sky Is Red, and she was soon cast in such films as Il conte di Sant'Elmo and The Forbidden Christ, the only movie directed by the noted writer Curzio Malaparte.

Later career

Ferrero's career progressed quickly as she worked with prominent directors, such as Michelangelo Antonioni on I vinti, and actors, like Marcello Mastroianni in Carlo Lizzani's award-winning Chronicle of Poor Lovers. She appeared with the popular comedian Totò in Totò e Carolina and with star Alberto Sordi in Una parigina a Roma.
She appeared with Vittorio Gassman in six films: Lorenzaccio, King Vidor's War and Peace, Kean, which Gassman co-directed, Giovanni dalle bande nere, Le sorprese dell'amore, and Il mattatore.
Her last on-screen appearance was as a housewife who accidentally ingests cocaine in a comic episode of the anthology film Controsesso, directed by Franco Rossi.

Personal life

Ferrero chose to end her career shortly after her 1963 marriage to French actor Jean Sorel, her co-star in two films: Gold of Rome and Four Days in Naples.

Filmography

  • The Sky Is Red ' as Giulia
  • Tomorrow Is Another Day as Giulia
  • The Forbidden Christ ' as Maria
  • Lorenzaccio as Luisa Strozzi
  • The Temptress ' as Maria-Luce Carlinet
  • Finishing School ' as Valerie De Beranger
  • Ragazze da marito as Anna Maria Mazzillo
  • Poppy ' as Pierina Zacchi
  • The Mute of Portici ' as uncredited
  • Half a Century of Song ' as cameo
  • The Unfaithfuls ' as Cesarina
  • Siamo tutti inquilini as Anna Perrini
  • Eager to Live ' as Elena
  • Youth and Perversion ' as Marina
  • Neapolitans in Milan ' as Nannina
  • Captain Phantom '
  • It Happened in the Park as Anna Maria Del Balzo
  • Verdi, the King of Melody ' as Margherita Barezzi Verdi
  • Viva la rivista! as episode
  • The Count of Saint Elmo ' as Laura Cassano
  • Chronicle of Poor Lovers ' as Gesuina
  • Guai ai vinti as Clara
  • A Parisian in Rome as Fiorella
  • Toto and Carolina ' as Carolina De Vico
  • The Widow ' as Adriana
  • The golden falcon ' as Fiammetta
  • Songs of Italy as episode
  • War and Peace as Mary Bolkonsky
  • The Violent Patriot ' as Anna, peasant girl
  • The Rival as Barbara Candi
  • Supreme Confession ' as Giovanna Siri
  • Cime tempestose as Catherina
  • Kean: Genius or Scoundrel ' as Anna Damby
  • Desert Warrior ' as uncredited
  • Captain Falcon ' as Anna
  • Questa mia donna as Maria Luisa
  • Bad Girls Don't Cry ' as Nicoletta
  • Surprise of Love ' as Mariarosa
  • The Employee as Joan
  • Gastone as Nannina
  • Love and Larceny ' as Annalisa Rauseo
  • Austerlitz ' as Elisa Bonaparte
  • Culpables as Margarita
  • Silver Spoon Set ' as Marina Castelfranco
  • The Hunchback of Rome ' as Ninetta
  • Captain Fracasse ' as Marquise des Bruyères
  • A Day for Lionhearts ' as Ida
  • Gold of Rome ' as Giulia
  • Always on Sunday ' as Milena
  • The Four Days of Naples ' as uncredited
  • Un marito in condominio as Giuliana
  • Countersex '''' as Marcella