Ornella Muti

Ornella Muti

Ornella Muti at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival
Born Francesca Romana Rivelli
(1955-03-09) 9 March 1955
Rome, Italy
Occupation Actress
Years active 1970–present
Spouse(s) Alessio Orano (m. 1975–81)(divorced)
Federico Facchinetti (1988–1996; separated) 2 children

Ornella Muti (born 9 March 1955) is an Italian actress.

Early life

She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan father and Ilse Renata Krause, a Baltic German from Estonia. Her maternal grandparents emigrated from Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) to Estonia.[1] She has an older sister, Claudia (born 1950).

Career

Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in La moglie più bella (aka The Most Beautiful Wife). She has primarily worked in Italian films but she made her English-speaking film debut as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon in 1980. American movies she appeared in include Love and Money (1982), Casanova (1987), Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1989), A Season of Giants (1990), Oscar (1991), Once Upon a Crime (1992), Somewhere in the City (1998) and To Rome with Love (2012).

She is mostly known to the French for appearing in a television commercial of Giovanni Panzani pasta. She was voted "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" in 1994 by a worldwide poll of readers of the magazine Class.

In 2008, Muti introduced her own line of jewellery.[2] She opened new shops in Paris, Milan, Rome, Riga, Moscow and Almaty. She reportedly insured her breasts for $350,000.[3]

Personal life

Muti has been married twice, first to Alessio Orano (a fellow actor in The Most Beautiful Wife), from 1975–81. She was married, secondly, to Federico Facchinetti, from 1988 to 1996. Muti has three children: Naike Rivelli (born 1974), a fashion model, singer, and actress (whose father is Spanish film producer José Luis Bermúdez de Castro Acaso); a son, Andrea, and a second daughter, Carolina, both from her marriage to Facchinetti. Since 2008, her romantic partner has been Fabrice Kerhervé.[4][5]

In 2015, an Italian court sentenced Muti to eight months in prison or pay a fine of 30,000 euros for faking a medical certificate and skipping a play in which she was performing in 2010, to have dinner with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and several celebrities at a charity event held in St Petersburg, Russia.[6]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ↑ (Russian) Interview with Ornella Muti (Интервью с Орнеллой Мути)
  2. ↑ ORNELLA MUTI & FABRICE KERHERVÉ look forward to meeting you at RIGA on the 19th-20th-21th [sic] JULY 2008
  3. ↑ "Top 23 Insured Celebrity Bodyparts". gawno.com.
  4. ↑ Ornella Muti ha trovato l’uomo della sua vita (in Italian); 31 July 2008
  5. ↑ Ornella Muti ama il selvaggio Fabrice (in Italian); 17 April 2009
  6. ↑ Italian actress Ornella Muti faces 8 months jail or 30,000 euro fine for skipping play to dine with Putin // Rt.com Published time: February 25, 2015 17:22

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