Anna-Maria Ferrero

Anna-Maria Ferrero (Rome, 18 February 1934) is an Italian actress.

She was born Anna Maria Guerra changing her last name in honor of composer Willy Ferrero.

At age 15 she debuted on screen in Il cielo è rosso (1950). Her next role was in Il duca di Sant'Elmo (1950) and in Il Cristo proibito (1951), the only film directed by the famous writer Curzio Malaparte.
Ferrero has worked with director Michelangelo Antonioni in I vinti and co starred opposite Marcello Mastroianni in the award winning vehicle Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1953), with Totò in Totò e Carolina (1953) and with Alberto Sordi in Una parigina a Roma (1954.

However it was Vittorio Gassman who worked more often with Ferrero. They worked together in Lorenzaccio, in King Vidor's War and Peace, Kean, Giovanni dalle bande nere, Le sorprese dell'amore, Il mattatore and La notte brava.

Her career ended after 37 years shortly after her marriage to French actor Jean Sorel. Her last appearance was in an episode of Controsesso (1965) directed by Ettore Scola

Filmography

• Countersex (Controsesso)(1964) (segment "Cocaina di domenica") .... Marcella
• Un marito in condominio (1963) .... Giuliana
• The Four Days of Naples (Le quattro giornate di Napoli) (1962)
• Always on Sunday (Una domenica d'estate) (1962)
• Gold of Rome (L'oro di Roma) (1961) .... Giulia
• A day for lionhearts (Un giorno da leoni) (1961) .... Ida
• Captain Fracasse (Le Capitaine Fracasse) (1961) .... Marquise des Bruyères
• The dauphins (I delfini) (1960) .... Marina
• Love and larceny (il mattatore) (1960) .... Annalisa Rauseo
• Culpables (1960) .... Margarita
• The battle of Austerlitz (Austerlitz) (1960) .... Elisa Bonaparte
• L'impiegato(1960) .... Joan
• Gastone (1960) .... Nannina
• The hunchback of Rome (Il gobbo) (1960) .... Ninetta
• The big night (la notte brava) (1959) .... Nicoletta
• The widow (La vedova X) (1959) .... Adriana
• Surprise of love (Le sorprese dell'amore) (1959) .... Mariarosa
• Captain Falcon (Capitan Fuoco) (1958) .... Anna
• Questa mia donna (1958) (TV)
• Supreme confession (Suprema confessione) (1957) .... Giovanna Siri
• Desert warrior (Los amantes del desierto) (1957)
• War and peace (1956) .... Mary Bolkonsky
• Cime tempestose (1956) TV mini-series
• The violent patriot (Giovanni dalle bande nere) (1956) .... Anna, peasant girl
• Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (Kean) (1956) .... Anna Damby
• Canzoni di tutta Italia (1955)
• The golden falcon (Il falco d'oro) (1955) .... Fiammetta
• The Rival La rivale (1955)
• Toto and Carolina (Totò e Carolina) (1955) .... Carolina De Vico
• Una parigina a Roma(1954) .... Fiorella
• Chronicle of Poor Lovers (Cronache di poveri amanti) (1954) .... Gesuina
• Guai ai vinti (1954)
• The life and music of Giuseppe Verdi (Giuseppe Verdi) (1953) .... Margherita Barezzi Verdi
• It Happened in the Park (1953) .... The girl student
• Youth and perversion (I vinti) (1953) .... Marina
• Luxury girls (Fanciulle di lusso) (1953) .... Valerie De Beranger
• Le infedeli (1953) .... Cesarina
• Captain Phantom (Capitan Fantasma) (1953) (uncredited)
• Eager to Live (Febbre di vivere) (1953) .... Elena
• Neapolitans in Milan (Napoletani a Milano) (1953) .... Nannina
• Siamo tutti inquilini (1953) .... Anna Perrini
• Viva la rivista! (1953)
• Half a century of song (Canzoni di mezzo secolo) (1952)
• Poppy (1952 film) (Lo sai che i papaveri) (1952) .... Pierina Zacchi
• The Mute of Portici Muta di Portici, La (1952)
• Ragazze da marito (1952)
• The Forbidden Christ (Il Cristo proibito) (1951) .... Maria
• Domani è un altro giorno (1951) .... Giulia
• The temptress (Le due verità) (1951) .... Maria-Luce Carlinet
• Lorenzaccio (1951)
• The count of Saint Elmo (il Conte di Sant'Elmo) (1950)
• The sky is red (Il Cielo è rosso) (1950) .... Giulia

External links

• Anna-Maria Ferrero at the Internet Movie Database