GRETA SCACCHI

'Greta Scacchi' (born February 18, 1960) is an Italian-born Emmy Award-winning film actress.

Contents

Biography

Early life

Career

Personal life

Filmography

References

External links

Biography

Early life

Scacchi was born in Milan, Italy, to Pamela Carsaniga, a dancer and antiques dealer, and Luca Scacchi Gracco, an art dealer and painter.^[1] Her parents divorced when she was three, and her mother moved to England with Greta and her two older brothers. In 1975, after her mother remarried, the family moved to Australia.

Career

In 1977, Scacchi returned to England to pursue an acting career; she studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, with Miranda Richardson and Amanda Redman. In 1982, she made her film debut in the German movie ''Das Zweite Gesicht'' (''The Second Face'') and gave versatile performances in films such as ''Heat and Dust'' (1983), ''The Ebony Tower'' (1984), ''White Mischief'' (1987), ''Presumed Innocent'' (1990), ''The Player'' (1993), and ''Country Life'' (1994). In 1996 she won an Emmy Award for her work in the television film ''. She was nominated for a Golden Globe and numerous other awards. In 2007 she received another Emmy Award nomination for Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie for ''Broken Trail''.

Personal life

Between 1983 and 1989, Scacchi was romantically involved with New Zealand singer/songwriter Tim Finn. A relationship with American actor Vincent D'Onofrio began in 1989 and ended 1993. Their daughter Leila was born in March 1992. Scacchi's son Matteo, fathered by her cousin and boyfriend, Carlo Mantegazza, was born in October 1998.

Filmography

★ ''Broken Trail'' (2006)

★ ''Marple: By the Pricking of my Thumbs'' (2006)

★ ''The Book Of Revelation'' (2006)

★ ''Syriana'' (2005) (Scenes deleted)

★ ''Flightplan'' (2005)

★ ''Beyond the Sea'' (2004)

★ ''Sotto falso nome'' (''Under False Name'') (2004)

★ ''Il Ronzio delle mosche'' (''The Buzz of the Flies'') (2003)

★ ''Baltic Storm'' (2003)

★ ''Jeffrey Archer: The Truth'' (2002) TV movie

★ ''Daniel Deronda'' (2002) TV miniseries

★ ''The Farm'' (2001) TV miniseries

★ ''Festival in Cannes'' (2001)

★ ''Christmas Glory 2000'' (2000) TV movie

★ ''One of the Hollywood Ten'' (2000)

★ ''Looking for Alibrandi'' (2000)

★ ''Ladies Room'' (1999)

★ ''Cotton Mary'' (1999)

★ ''Tom's Midnight Garden'' (1999)

★ ''The Manor'' (1999)

★ ''Love and Rage'' (1998)

★ ''Le Violon rouge'' (''The Red Violin'') (1998)

★ ''Macbeth'' (1998) TV movie

★ ''The Odyssey'' (1997) TV movie

★ ''The Serpent's Kiss'' (1997)

★ ''Emma'' (1996)

★ ''Cosi'' (1996)

★ '' (1996) TV movie

★ ''Jefferson in Paris'' (1995)

★ ''Country Life'' (1994)

★ ''The Browing Version'' (1994)

★ ''Salt on Our Skin'' (1992)

★ ''The Player'' (1992)

★ ''Turtle Beach'' (1992)

★ ''Shattered'' (1991)

★ ''Fires Within'' (1991)

★ ''Presumed Innocent'' (1990)

★ ''La donna della luna'' (''The Moon Woman'') (1988)

★ ''Three Sisters'' (1988)

★ ''White Mischief'' (1987)

★ ''Good Morning, Babylon'' (1987)

★ ''Un homme amoureux'' (1987)

★ ''Carve You In Marble'' (August 1986)

★ ''Defence of the Realm'' (1985)

★ ''Burke & Wills'' (1985)

★ ''Dr. Fischer of Geneva'' (1985) TV movie

★ ''The Coca-Cola Kid'' (1985)

★ ''The Ebony Tower'' (1984)

★ ''Camille'' (1984) TV movie

★ ''Waterfront'' (1984) TV mini-series

★ ''Heat and Dust'' (1983)

★ ''Dead On Time'' (1982/short)

★ ''Das Zweite Gesicht'' (1982)

References

1. http://www.filmreference.com/film/77/Greta-Scacchi.html

External links

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