Margaret Mazzantini


Margaret Mazzantini is an Italian-Irish writer and actress. She became a film, television and stage actor, but is best known as a writer. Mazzantini began her acting career in 1980 starring in the cult horror classic Antropophagus, she has also appeared in television and theatre. As a successful writer, her novels include Non ti muovere which was adapted into the namesake film and is directed by her husband Sergio Castellitto and stars Penélope Cruz. Her career as a writer and actress has earned her several awards and nominations including Campiello Awards, a Golden Ticket Award, and a Goya Award.
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Early life

Mazzantini was born in Dublin, Ireland to Carlo Mazzantini, an Italian writer and artist, and Anne Donnelly, an Irish artist. She has three sisters. She spent her childhood around Europe, Spain, and Tangier, until the family settled in Tivoli. In 1982 she graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome.

Personal life

She married Sergio Castellitto in 1987. They have four children, Pietro, Maria, Anna and Cesare. She lives in Rome.
In 2003, she was awarded the title of Knight Order of Merit of the Italian Republic on the initiative of the President of the Republic.

Theatre

  • 1982: Ifigenia di Goethe
  • 1983-1983: Venezia salvata di T.
  • 1984-1985: La tre sorelle di Cechov
  • 1984-1985: L'onesto Jago di C.
  • 1984-1985: L'Alcade di Zalamea di Calderon de la Barca
  • 1985-1986: La Signora Giulia di Strindberg
  • 1986: Antigone di Sofocle
  • 1987: Faust di Goethe
  • 1987: Mon Faust di Paul Valéry
  • 1988: Bambino di Susan Sontag
  • 1989: Praga Magica-Valeria
  • 1992-1993: A piedi nudi nel parco
  • 1994: ''Colpi bassi''

Works

Il Catino Di Zinco, Venezia : Marsilio Editori, 1994. Manola, Milano : Mondadori, 1998. Non ti muovere, Milano : Mondadori, 2001.
  • * translated into English by John Cullen Don't move, London : Chatto & Windus, 2004.
  • * adapted as the film Non ti muovere (Don't Move), directed by Sergio Castellitto, released 2004Zorro. Un eremita sul marciapiede, Milano : Mondadori, 2004. Venuto al mondo, Mondadori, Milano 2008.
  • * translated into English by Ann Gagliardi Twice Born, Oxford : Oneworld, 2011.
  • * adapted as the film Venuto al mondo, directed by Sergio Castellitto, released 2012Nessuno si salva da solo, Milano : Mondadori, 2011, Mare al mattino, Turino: Einaudi, 2011 Splendore, Milano, Mondadori, 2013.

Awards and nominations