Ilaria Occhini (28 March 1934 – 20 July 2019) was an Italian stage, television and film actress. She appeared in more than 30 films. Born in Florence, niece and daughter of novelists, Occhini started her film career at 19 with the Luciano Emmer's comedy film Terza Liceo with the stage name Isabella Redi, then attended the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in Rome, graduating in 1957. The same year she back to acting with Mario Monicelli's Il medico e lo stregone, and at the same time she debuted on stage with Luchino Visconti's La ragazza delle smirne and had her first leading role in the Anton Giulio Majano's TV series Jane Eyre. In 1959 she appeared in the television adaptation The Vicar of Wakefield. Her mother, Gioconda Papini (1910-1954), was one of the two daughters of writer Giovanni Papini and his wife Giacinta Giovagnoli, the other being writer Viola Paszkowski Papini. Her father was writer, art historian and journalist Barna Occhini (pseudonym of Carlo Luigi Occhini) (1905-1978), the son of senator Pier Ludovico Occhini and his wife Maria Luisa Tettamanzi. Occhini obtained her major successes on stage, working several times with Luchino Visconti, then joining the Piccolo Teatro of Naples, where she received large critical appreciation by interpreting classical and contemporary authors. She was also a constant presence of RAI television series, and also starred in many films, but rarely in leading roles. In 1992 Occhini won the Nastro d'Argento for best supporting role for her performance in Benvenuti in Casa Gori. In 2008 she was awarded Best Actress at the Locarno International Film Festival for her role in Mar Nero. In 2010 she won a David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Loose Cannons; the same year she was awarded with a special Nastro d'Argento for her career. She married screenwriter and author Raffaele La Capria, with whom she had a daughter, Alexandra. Source: Article "Ilaria Occhini" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

• 2012A Perfect Family — Rosa
• 2011All at Sea — Signora Valeria
• La ragazza americana — Bice
• 2010Loose Cannons — La nonna
• 2009Black Sea — Gemma Pratesi
• Provaci ancora prof — Andreina Baudino
• 2001Tomorrow — Mrs. Moccia
• Father Matteo — Elena Lombardi Satriani
• 1999Boom — Elide (segment "Il figlio di Maciste")
• 1999Meglio tardi che mai — Emma Di Carlo
• Don Milani - Il priore di Barbiana — Don Milani's mother
• 1996Ritorno a casa Gori — Adele Papini
• Piazza di Spagna — Annina Cascone
• 1991Pizza Colonia — Severina Serboli
• 1990Benvenuti in casa Gori — Adele Papini
• Puccini — Elvira
• 1973The Return — Francesca
• 1973Two Men in Town — Sophie Strabliggi
• 1972Hearth Fires — Clotilde
• 1969Il gabbiano — Nina Michàjlovna Zarèčnaja
• 1966Almost a Man — Elena
• 1966Brigade Anti Gangs — Angèle Le Goff
• 1966The Man Who Laughs — Dea
• 1965Complexes — Gabriella (I)
• 1965The Tramplers — Edith Wickett
• 1964The Betrothed — La monaca di Monza
• 1963The Shortest Day — Crocerossina (uncredited)
• 1962Damon and Pythias — Nerissa
• 1961His Women — Daniela
• 1960Carthage in Flames — Ophir
• 1958Pia de' Tolomei — Pia de' Tolomei
• 1958The Dragon's Blood — Crimilde
• 1957Doctor and the Healer — Rosina
• Jane Eyre — Jane Eyre
• 1954High School — Isabella
• La fiera della vanità — Amelia "Emmy" Sedley
• Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana (Teatro)
• Ricorda con rabbia — Helena Charles

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2004Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté — Self - Interviewee