Ornella Muti

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Ornella Muti at Cannes, 2000.

Ornella Muti (born March 9, 1955) is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan father and Estonian mother. She has an older sister, Claudia (1951).

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 UK film debut in 1980 in Flash Gordon. American movies she appeared in include Oscar (1991) and Once Upon A Crime (1992). She is mostly known to the French for appearing in a TV commercial of Giovanni Panzani pasta.

Muti has been married twice, to Alessio Orano (her fellow actor in the film "The Most Beautiful Wife", 1975-1981), and Federico Facchinetti (1988-1996).

Muti has three children: Naike Rivelli (b. 1974), who is also a model and actress having a close resemblance to her mother, and 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 1998, Muti has been living with Stefano Piccolo, a plastic surgeon.

Muti was voted "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" in 1994 by a worldwide poll of readers of the magazine Class.

[edit] Selected filmography

La moglie più bella (The Most Beautiful Wife, 1970)
Il Sole nella pelle (1971, also known as Summer Affair, Sun on the Skin)
Le Monache di Sant'Arcangelo (1973, also known as Sisters of Satan, The Nuns of Saint Archangel, The Nun and the Devil)
Romanzo popolare (1974, also known as Come Home and Meet My Wife)
Appassionata (1970, also known as Passionate)
Leonor (1975)
La Dernière femme (1976, also known as The Last Woman, L'Ultima donna)
La stanza del vescovo, also known as The Bishop’s Room
Mort d'un pourri (1977, also known as Death of a Corrupt Man, The Twisted Detective)
La Vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful, 1979)
Flash Gordon (1980)
Innamorato pazzo (1981)
Storie di ordinaria follia (Tales of Ordinary Madness, 1981)
La Ragazza di Trieste (The Girl from Trieste, 1983)
Un amour de Swann (1984, also known as Eine Liebe von Swann, Swann in Love)
Casanova (1987)
Cronaca di una morte annunciata (Chronicle of a Death Foretold, 1987)
'O Re (The King of Naples) (1989)
Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1990)
Il Viaggio di Capitan Fracassa (1990, English titles: Captain Fracassa's Journey, The Voyage of Captain Fracassa)
Oscar (1991)
Once Upon A Crime (1992)
El Amante Bilingüe (1993)
Mi fai un favore (1996, US title: Stella's Favor)
Pour rire! (1996)
Somewhere in the City (1998)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1999)
The Unscarred (1999), costarred with daughter Naike Rivelli
Domani (2001, English title: Tomorrow)
Last Run (2002)
Cavale (2002, also known as Trilogy: One, On the Run, One)
Un couple épatant (2002, also known as Trilogy: Two, An Amazing Couple, Two)
Après la vie (2002) (also known as Trilogy: Three, After the Life, Three)
Hotel (2003)
On the Run: Trilogy 1 (2004)
An Amazing Couple: Trilogy 2 (2004)
After the Life: Trilogy 3 (2004)
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)