Marisa Borini

Marisa Borini, born Turin on 1 April 1930, is an Italian concert pianist and actress.

Life and career

Born in Turin, Italy in 1930 to a mother originally from Savoie, France and an Italian engineer father, originally from Piedmont. She is married to the Italian industrialist and classical composer Alberto Bruni Tedeschi and they have three children:

A son, Virginio, a photographer who died of AIDS
The actress and director Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, born 16 November 1964
The singer-songwriter and model Carla Bruni, born 23 December 1967, who later married French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Her biological father is guitarist Maurizio Remmert who Marisa had a relationship with from 1960 to 1967.

In 1973, Marisa and her husband went into exile in Paris, officially to escape the Italian communist Red Brigades, but also due to the bankruptcy of the family business, CEAT, later bought by the Pirelli group.
In 2003, she played the mother of the Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and Chiara Mastroianni in a semi-biographical film also written and directed by Bruni-Tedeschi, It's [Easier for a Camel...|Il est plus facile pour un chameau...]. She also plays her real-life daughter's mother in her films Actrices and Un chateau en Italie. For the latter, she was nominated for the César for Best Supporting Actress at the César Awards|2014 César Awards].

Film and television work

2003 : Il est plus facile pour un chameau... directed by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
2005 : La Petite Chartreuse directed by Jean-Pierre Denis adapted from the novel of the same name by Pierre Péju
2005 : The [Black Box (2005 film)|La Boîte noire] directed by Richard Berry.
2007 : Actrices directed by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
2013 : Un château en Italie directed by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
2016 : Folles de joie directed by Paolo Virzì.
2018 : Les Estivants directed by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
2022 : Capitaine Marleau, episode "Héros malgré lui" directed by Josée Dayan