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Ornella Muti
Actor

Ornella Muti

Born March 9, 1955 in Roma, Lazio, Italy

19 films

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 British film debut as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon in 1980. 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. In 2008, Ornella Muti introduced her own line of jewellery. She opened new shops in Paris, Milan, Rome, Riga, Moscow and Almaty. She insured her breasts for 50,000. C-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography 19

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004) movie poster
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things2004
Jet Set (2000) movie poster
Jet Set2000
Once Upon a Crime (1992) movie poster
Once Upon a Crime1992
Christmas Vacation '91 (1991) movie poster
Christmas Vacation '911991
Oscar (1991) movie poster
Oscar1991
The Voyage of Captain Fracassa (1990) movie poster
The Voyage of Captain Fracassa1990
Tonight at Alice's (1990) movie poster
Tonight at Alice's1990
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987) movie poster
Chronicle of a Death Foretold1987
My Sister and I (1987) movie poster
My Sister and I1987
Blame it on Paradise (1985) movie poster
Blame it on Paradise1985
Rich and Poor (1983) movie poster
Rich and Poor1983
Madly in Love (1981) movie poster
Madly in Love1981
Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981) movie poster
Tales of Ordinary Madness1981
Flash Gordon (1980) movie poster
Flash Gordon1980
The Taming of the Scoundrel (1980) movie poster
The Taming of the Scoundrel1980
Death of a Corrupt Man (1977) movie poster
Death of a Corrupt Man1977
The New Monsters (1977) movie poster
The New Monsters1977
Appassionata (1974) movie poster
Appassionata1974
The Most Beautiful Wife (1970) movie poster
The Most Beautiful Wife1970