Virna Lisi
Virna Pieralisi (8 November 1936 – 18 December 2014), better known as Virna Lisi was an Italian actress. Her international film appearances included How to Murder Your Wife (1965), Not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966), The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969), Beyond Good and Evil (1977), and Follow Your Heart (1996). For the 1994 film La Reine Margot, she won Best Actress at Cannes and the César Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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| Full name at birth | Virna Lisa Pieralisi
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| Claim to fame | Questa � la vita (1954), Esquire Magazine Cover (1965)
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| Date of birth | 8 November 1936
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| Place of birth | Ancona, Italy
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| Date of death | 17 December 2014
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| Age | 78 (age at death)
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| Place of death | Rome, Italy
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| Cause of death | Lung cancer
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| Occupation | Actress
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| Height | 5' 5" (165 cm)
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| Net worth | $5,000,000 USD
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- For the film La Reine Margot (1994), Lisi portrayed a malevolent Catherine de' Medici and so she won both the César and Cannes Film Festival awards,[2] along with the David di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.
- is a Cannes and César award-winning Italian film actress.
- Was cast in the title role in Barbarella (1968), but she turned it down and returned to Italy.
- She has three grandsons: Franco (b. 1995), Federico and Riccardo (b. 2003).
- Alternated filming activity with television and stage acting, namely at Piccolo Teatro di Milano, where she did "I giacobini" by Federico Zardi, under the direction of Strehler. She was one of the stars launched as a successor to Marilyn Monroe in the United States, in the late '60s.
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