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Nicoletta Braschi - Actress
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Nicoletta
Braschi is an Italian actress, born in Cesena, in 1960. She studied
in the Rome Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she met, in 1980, Roberto
Benigni, who she would marry years later. Her first role was in
Benigni’s 1983 comedy Tu
Mi Turbi.
Shortly after, in 1986, she had a role in Down
By
Law,
by Jim Jarmusch, who she would work with again, three years later, in
Mystery
Train.
Despite
working in feature films with such directors as Marco Ferreri,
Bernardo Bertolucci or Blake Edwards, her career is undeniably linked
to her husband’s and to some of his most iconic films, such as
Johnny
Stecchino (1991),
Life
is Beautiful
(1997) and The
Tiger and the Snow
(2005), which she also produced. Along with her film activites,
Nicoletta Braschi has worked in theater as well, acting in plays
adapted from works by Boris Vian or Miguel de Cervantes, for
instance, and with stage directors like Andrea Renzi and Claudio
Abbado.