Marcello Mastroianni
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Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (September 28, 1924 – December 19, 1996) was an Academy Award nominated Italian film actor.
Born in Fontana Liri, a small village in the Apennines, Mastroianni grew up in Turin and Rome. During World War II he was interned in a Nazi prison, but he escaped and hid in Venice.
In 1945 he started working for a film company and began taking acting lessons. His film debut was in I Miserabili (from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables) in 1947.
He soon became a major international star, starring in Big Deal on Madonna Street; and in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita with Anita Ekberg in 1960, where he played a disillusioned and self-loathing tabloid columnist who spends his days and nights exploring Rome's high society.
Mastroianni followed La Dolce Vita with another signature role, that of a film director who, amidst self-doubt and troubled love affairs, finds himself in a creative block while making a movie in Fellini's 8½.
Mastroianni was married to Italian actress Flora Carabella (1926 - 1999) from 1948 until his death. They had one child together, Barbara.
He also had a daughter, Chiara Mastroianni, with his longtime mistress, the actress Catherine Deneuve; both Flora and Catherine were at his bedside when he died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 72.
[edit] Academy Award Nominations
- 1988 – Best Actor – Dark Eyes [1]
- 1978 – Best Actor – A Special Day [2]
- 1963 – Best Actor – Divorce, Italian Style [3]
