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Giulietta Masina

Giulietta Masina

Acting
22 Feb 1921
23 Mar 1994
San Giorgio di Piano, Italy

Biography

Giulietta Masina (22 February 1921 – 23 March 1994) was an Italian film and stage actress. She starred in La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, in 1956 and 1957, respectively. Masina won the Best Actress award at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival for the later film. She was the wife and muse of the Italian film director Federico Fellini, in whom she found an artistic equal and collaborator. Owing to her intense performances of naïve chara...

Also Known As

Giulia Anna Masina

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