Carla Gravina (born 5 August 1941) is an Italian actress and politician. She appeared in 40 films between 1957 and 1993. Born in Gemona, Gravina made her film debut at fifteen years old, in Alberto Lattuada's Guendalina. Very active in films and on television series, both in comedic and dramatic roles, from the late 1970s she gradually focused her activities on stage and in political activism, being a PCI deputy between 1980 and 1983. During her career Gravina won a number of international awards, including the Best Actress Award for her performance in Alessandro Blasetti's Love and Chatter at the 1958 Locarno International Film Festival, the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ettore Scola's La terrazza at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, and the award for Best Actress for Margarethe von Trotta's The Long Silence at the 1993 Montreal World Film Festival.

Filmography

• 1998Come quando fuori piove — Anita
• 1993The Long Silence — Dr. Carla Aldrovandi
• 1988Days of Inspector Ambrosio — Tullia Bandelli
• 1986La Locandiera — Mirandolina
• 1984Mon Ami Washington
• 1982Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich
• 1980The Terrace — Carla
• 1979Nella vita di Sylvia Plath — Sylvia Plath
• Orient Express — Hélène
• Madame Bovary — Emma Bovary
• 1978Mother and Daughter — Mother
• 1976Boomerang — Muriel
• 1974And Now My Love — Sarah's Italian Girlfriend
• 1974Il gioco della verità — Anna Incoronato
• 1974The Antichrist — Ippolita Oderisi
• 1973Hail the Artist — Elisabeth Montei
• 1973The Inheritor — Liza Rocquencourt
• 1973Tony Arzenta — Sandra
• 1972Alfredo, Alfredo — Carolina
• 1972The Pisciotta Case — Gemma
• Il segno del comando — Lucia
• 1971Without Apparent Motive — Jocelyne Rocca
• 1969Mother's Heart — Lorenza Garrone
• Nero Wolfe — Helen Frost
• 1969Sierra Maestra — Carla
• The Brothers Karamazov — Katerina Ivànovna
• 1969The Invisible Woman — Delfina
• 1969The Lady of Monza — Caterina da Meda
• 1968The Seven Cervi Brothers — Verina, moglie di Aldo Cervi
• 1968The Violent Four — Anna
• 1967A Bullet for the General — Rosario
• 1967Caravaggio — Tullia
• 1965Anche l'inferno trema
• Il giocatore — Polina Aleksandrovna
• 1965Il marito geloso
• Scaramouche — Marietta Biancolella
• 1961A Day for Lionhearts — Mariuccia
• 1961Scano Boa — Clara
• 1960Everybody Go Home! — Silvia Modena
• 1960Five Branded Women — Mira
• 1959Esterina — Esterina
• 1959First Love — Betty
• 1959Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura — Celeste
• 1958Big Deal on Madonna Street — Nicoletta
• 1958Love and Chatter — Maria Furlani
• 1957Guendalina — Amica di Guendalina (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2021Alida Valli: In Her Own Words — Self
• Ciné regards — Self