Ornella Muti

Ornella Muti
Ornella Muti at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival
Born	Francesca Romana Rivelli March 9, 1955 (1955-03-09) (age 54) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Film, television actress
Years active	1970–2009
Spouse(s)	Federico Facchinetti (1988-?) (separated) 2 children Alessio Orano (1975-1981) (divorced)
Domestic partner(s)	Fabrice Kerhervé (2008)

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 Alma-Ata. She insured her breasts for $350,000. [1]

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)
• Pure as a Lily (1976)
• La Dernière femme (1976, also known as The Last Woman, L'Ultima donna)
• La stanza del vescovo, (1977, also known as The Bishop’s Room)
• Mort d'un pourri (1977, also known as Death of a Corrupt Man, The Twisted Detective)
• I nuovi mostri (1977)
• Neapolitan Mystery (1978)
• La Vita è bella (Life is Beautiful, 1979)
• Flash Gordon (1980)
• Il Bisbetico Domato (1980)
• Innamorato pazzo (1981)
• Storie di ordinaria follia (Tales of Ordinary Madness, 1981)
• Love and Money (1982)
• 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 (1989)
• 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)
• Compromesso d'amore (1995, Spanish title: Tatiana, la muñeca rusa, US title: Love Deal)
• Pour rire! (1996)
• Somewhere in the City (1998)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (1998, miniseries)
• The Unscarred (1999), costarred with daughter Naike Rivelli
• Tierra del fuego (2000)
• Domani (2001, English title: Tomorrow)
• Il figlio prediletto (2001 Brazil, Portuguese title: Um Crime Nobre)
• 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)

External links

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