Irene Cefaro

Irene Cefaro
Born	31 August 1935 Rome, Italy
Occupation	actress

Irene Cefaro (born 31 August 1935) is an Italian former stage and film actress.

Life and career

Born in Rome, in 1952 Cefaro won the beauty contest "Miss Roma" and almost immediately attracted the interest of film producers, making her film debut in Il maestro di Don Giovanni (1953).^[1][2] In a few years she got notable roles in films of value directed by Federico Fellini, Carlo Lizzani, Giuseppe De Santis, Luigi Comencini and Raffaello Matarazzo, among others.^[1] She prematurely retired from acting in the late 1950s to devote herself to her family.^[1]

Selected filmography

• Guai ai vinti (1954)
• Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1955)
• Bravissimo (1955)
• Destination Piovarolo (1955)
• Il Bidone (1955)
• The Wolves (1956)
• Husbands in the City (1957)
• L'amore più bello (1958)
• Le donne ci tengono assai (1959)

References

1. Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano - Le Attrici. Gremese Editore, 2003. pp. 36–37. ISBN 888440214X.
2. B & n, Volume 63. Editrice Il castoro, 2002.

External links

• Irene Cefaro at the Internet Movie Database