Giovanna Mezzogiorno

Giovanna Mezzogiorno

Born: November 9, 1974
in Rome, Lazio, Italy
Giovanna Mezzogiorno (born November 9, 1974) is an Italian theatre and film actress.

Giovanna Mezzogiorno was born in Rome, November 9, 1974, daughter of actors Vittorio Mezzogiorno and Cecilia Sacchi. She grew up watching her parents on set, conscious about acting. At first she wanted to become a ballerina and she studied dancing for 13 years. She is an atheist.

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Gym Class
Title: Gym Class
Character: Diana Peruggia
Released: March 16, 2023
Type: Movie
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Amanda
Title: Amanda
Character: Viola
Released: October 13, 2022
Type: Movie
Amanda, 24, lives mostly isolated and has never had any friends, even if it's the thing she wants the most. Amanda chooses her new mission as to convince her childhood friend to believe that they are still best friends.
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Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Title: Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Character: Alida Valli (voice)
Released: May 17, 2021
Type: Movie
A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly became one of the most famous and beloved actresses of Italian and international cinema, told through the words of her unpublished letters and diaries, photographs, homemade films in 8 mm, and new interviews with her relatives, friends, and collaborators.
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The Time of Indifference
Title: The Time of Indifference
Released: April 27, 2021
Type: Movie
A screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Alberto Moravia. Rome, our days. Mariagration Ardengo and her children Michele and Carla are left without a livelihood. Mariagration's money-hungry lover Leo develops a plan to take the last property from the family - the attic in which they live. Michele tries to thwart Leo's plans, but when his attempts fail, young Carla takes over.
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The Ties
Title: The Ties
Character: Anna
Released: October 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Naples, early 1980s. The strained marriage between Aldo and Vanda is fractured one evening when Aldo admits, unprompted, his infidelity. Equally hurt and bewildered, Vanda attempts to hide her pain from the couple's two school-age kids, lest they discover that their cramped apartment is not a home of trust and love. 30 years later, Aldo and Vanda are still tied together, but their relationship with each other and their children continues to be defined by what happened all those years ago.
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Tornare
Title: Tornare
Character: Alice
Released: May 4, 2020
Type: Movie
Cristina Comencini defines the film as a "thriller of the soul." It's the story of a woman who returns to Italy from the US to attend the funeral of her late father, an American admiral living in Naples. Here she meets a man who seems to know too many things about her.
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I Remember Piazza Fontana
Title: I Remember Piazza Fontana
Character: Francesca Dendena adulta
Released: December 12, 2019
Type: Movie
A documentary-fiction that reconstructs the complex procedural path followed by the 1969 massacre through the point of view of Francesca Dendena, daughter of one of the victims and President of the Family Association of the victims of the Piazza Fontana massacre.
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Title: The Swan Company
Character: Valeria
Released: January 7, 2019
Type: TV
The story of the friendship of seven talented young musicians enrolled at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan contending with the rules and discipline of a very tough conductor who demands the best from them.
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Naples in Veils
Title: Naples in Veils
Character: Adriana / Isabella
Released: December 28, 2017
Type: Movie
In a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, a mystery envelops the existence of Adriana, overwhelmed by a sudden love and a violent crime.
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Tenderness
Title: Tenderness
Character: Elena
Released: April 24, 2017
Type: Movie
Back from the hospital where he has been treated after a heart attack, Lorenzo is on his way upstairs to his top-floor apartment in Naples when he meets Michela. The charming young woman, who has just moved to the facing apartment, has forgotten her keys and finds herself locked out. Cynical and grumpy, the retired lawyer who has been living estranged from the rest of the world, should normally leave her to her fate but he mellows under her spontaneous charm. He helps her, becomes friends not only with her but with her husband Fabio and their two children. For once, the self-declared misanthropist seems to be experiencing the long forgotten feeling of empathy.
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How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
Title: How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
Character: Mary
Released: November 23, 2016
Type: Movie
More and more parents take competitive behavior towards the teachers of their children: deny votes and programs, vaneggiano of likes, dislikes, and conspiracies. So, instead of helping in the training of their children, they become insurmountable obstacles to their growth. Presumptuously they think: "We know better than anyone else our children and we know what they are worth and how and what you have to teach."
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The Dinner
Title: The Dinner
Character: Chiara
Released: September 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the parents protect the kids or force them to face the consequences of their actions?
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Vinodentro
Title: Vinodentro
Character: Adele
Released: December 12, 2013
Type: Movie
For John Cuttin it all started with the first sip of the wine of her life. A "Marzemino", a typical wine of the province of Trento, quoted by Lorenzo Da Ponte in his libretto for "Don Giovanni" by Mozart. The instant he tasted the blood-red drop of nectar John felt a sort of pleasant and mysterious explosion of the senses, and from that moment on, his nature is transformed. In just three years, from shy bank clerk and faithful husband became director, tombeur de femmes and the most revered and respected expert on wine in Italy. Just as he had predicted the enigmatic "Professor" who had convinced him to taste his first glass of wine. The only event that the "Professor" with his accent and his piercing blue eyes, had not predicted was that he would soon be charged with the murder of his wife Adele. While being put under pressure by the Commissioner Sanfelice, John is to reflect on the last three years of his life, dominated by a single and mad passion: wine.
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Title: In Treatment
Character: Adele
Released: April 1, 2013
Type: TV
In Treatment is an Italian TV series directed by Saverio Costanzo and starring Sergio Castellitto.
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Basilicata Coast to Coast
Title: Basilicata Coast to Coast
Character: Tropea limongi
Released: April 9, 2010
Type: Movie
A music group and a journalist cross the region of Basilicata by foot to attend a music festival.
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The Front Line
Title: The Front Line
Character: Susanna Ronconi
Released: November 20, 2009
Type: Movie
United by an uncompromising struggle as members of the infamous 1970s far-left terrorist group Prima Linea, fugitive couple Sergio and Susanna have become increasingly alienated from the real world. Their luck runs out when Susanna is captured and thrown in jail. Putting his life on the line, Sergio embarks on a radical plan... Loosely based on the memoir by Prima Linea's 'commander' Sergio Segio.
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In the Eyes
Title: In the Eyes
Character: voce
Released: September 6, 2009
Type: Movie
Documentary about the life and career of Vittorio Mezzogiorno through the voice of his daughter Giovanna.
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Vincere
Title: Vincere
Character: Ida Dalser
Released: May 20, 2009
Type: Movie
The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws.
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Palermo Shooting
Title: Palermo Shooting
Character: Flavia
Released: November 20, 2008
Type: Movie
After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down?
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I Am Alive
Title: I Am Alive
Character: Stefania
Released: October 19, 2008
Type: Movie
A young Italian worker, persuaded by his friend to take on a one-off 'nightwatchman' job for easy money, finds the reality is more macabre -- and complex -- than he expected.
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L'amore non basta
Title: L'amore non basta
Character: Martina
Released: April 18, 2008
Type: Movie
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Les murs porteurs
Title: Les murs porteurs
Character: Manou
Released: October 31, 2007
Type: Movie
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Title: Love in the Time of Cholera
Character: Fermina Daza
Released: October 4, 2007
Type: Movie
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.
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Night Bus
Title: Night Bus
Character: Leila
Released: May 11, 2007
Type: Movie
Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal involving the President. As the film unfolds, a secret war between factions of the Security Services, a series of confusions among the various criminal fraternities whose activites have been touched upon by the deal, and Leila's past all complicate the situation.
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Lezioni di volo
Title: Lezioni di volo
Character: Chiara Della Notte
Released: March 16, 2007
Type: Movie
A pair of teen friends – known as "Chicken & Curry" because they are virtually inseparable – fail their high school finals and try to cover it by claiming that Curry is in the midst of an identity crisis that can only be solved by a visit to his ancestral homeland, India. While the ruse works wonderfully on their parents, this impromptu journey of self-discovery takes an unexpected detour when Curry locates his biological sister and remains captivated by the country he first despised, and Chicken falls for an older doctor working for Médecins Sans Frontières.
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AD Project
Title: AD Project
Character: Gaia
Released: May 5, 2006
Type: Movie
A girl gets involved in the affairs of a mysterious society that supervises the activities of the aliens on Earth.
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Don't Tell
Title: Don't Tell
Character: Sabina
Released: March 17, 2005
Type: Movie
Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe middle-class family. But a big secret is hidden within her heart. Sabina wants to contact again her brother, a University teacher in the US, to try to understand what is happened in their past. What is the secret? She is determined to bring clarity and serenity in her life. She finally manages to free herself from her "beast in the heart".
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Virginia, la monaca di Monza
Title: Virginia, la monaca di Monza
Character: Virginia Maria de Leyva
Released: July 1, 2004
Type: Movie
The film is loosely based on real life events of Marianna de Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," whose story was made famous by the Alessandro Manzoni's novel The Betrothed.
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Stai con me
Title: Stai con me
Character: Chiara
Released: June 25, 2004
Type: Movie
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Last Chance Saloon
Title: Last Chance Saloon
Character: Kathy
Released: June 23, 2004
Type: Movie
Ils sont amis depuis l'enfance et se sont juré de toujours s'entraider. Ensemble, Kathy, Tara et Yann ont quitté leur île bretonne pour s'installer à Paris. Alors que Yann est heureux avec Alfredo, son compagnon, les deux filles connaissent des vies sentimentales plutôt désastreuses. Tara, aussi rieuse que peu sûre d'elle, se fait esclavagiser par Thomas, petit prof égocentrique et mesquin...
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Love Returns
Title: Love Returns
Character: Lena
Released: April 19, 2004
Type: Movie
Luca is a famous actor working on his new film as both its star and director. One day he gets extremely sick and, while at the hospital, rethinks his life.
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Entrusted
Title: Entrusted
Character: Maria von Gall
Released: July 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he is rescued by his American father, whom he has never met before, and who plans to flee with him to Spain. However, Queen Maria had solemnly entrusted her little pawn Thomas with a precious secret and a terrifying mission, and it was time for him to move. A pawn may become an important piece by slowly, quietly advancing all the way through the enemy's ranks. Or a pawn may die trying. Retreat is what a pawn can never do.
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The Cruelest Day
Title: The Cruelest Day
Character: Ilaria Alpi
Released: March 27, 2003
Type: Movie
Ilaria Alpi, a young, Italian war-corespondent, was on a dangerous mission in Somalia. While she covered the civil war, she also discovered a big and secret international enviromentscandale. Together with her cameraman she was killed in the streets of Mogadishus March, 1994. The film is based on a true story.
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Facing Windows
Title: Facing Windows
Character: Giovanna
Released: February 27, 2003
Type: Movie
Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her.
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Malefemmene
Title: Malefemmene
Character: Francesca
Released: November 30, 2001
Type: Movie
A young woman is wrongly jailed. In prison she finds a completely different world made of women who seem to have found the formula for freedom.
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Nobel
Title: Nobel
Character: Eleonora
Released: November 16, 2001
Type: Movie
A movie from the italian director Fabio Carpi.
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All the Knowledge in the World
Title: All the Knowledge in the World
Character: Giovanna
Released: August 31, 2001
Type: Movie
The “meaning of life” told by Eros Puglielli in his peculiar directing style: weird characters, odd mishaps, fates that meet, skim and loose each other. A student in love with her philosophy lecturer, a disabled man seeking for his legs recovery, a young pop star desperate for a spiritual leader to meet. And above everybody stands an overhanging odd luminous man, maybe true, maybe not.
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The Last Kiss
Title: The Last Kiss
Character: Giulia
Released: February 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Giulia and Carlo have been happy together for three years, but Giulia's announcement that she is pregnant sends him into a secret panic. Terrified at his imminent entry into the adult world of irreversible responsibilities, Carlo finds himself tempted by a bewitching 18-year-old girl, Francesca, whom he meets by chance at a wedding. The possibility of one last youthful crazy fling before the impending prison of parenthood proves to be too attractive to resist.
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Title: Les Misérables
Character: Soeur Simplice
Released: September 4, 2000
Type: TV
Set against the background of the French Revolution and based on Victor Hugo's classic novel this is the story of Jean Valjean who is sent to prison for stealing a loaf of bread and is released after nineteen years. He meets and cares for a beautiful but poverty-stricken young girl named Fantine who has daughter Cosette. After Fantine's death Valjean brings Cosette up but he is haunted by Javert - a policeman whose search for Valjean has become an obsession.
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Asini
Title: Asini
Character: Anna
Released: November 11, 1999
Type: Movie
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Un uomo perbene
Title: Un uomo perbene
Character: Silvia Tortora
Released: October 1, 1999
Type: Movie
In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.
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A Lighter Burden to Bear
Title: A Lighter Burden to Bear
Character: Elena
Released: December 8, 1998
Type: Movie
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Del perduto amore
Title: Del perduto amore
Character: Liliana
Released: September 18, 1998
Type: Movie
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Il viaggio della sposa
Title: Il viaggio della sposa
Character: Porzia Maria Colonna
Released: September 5, 1997
Type: Movie
17th-century noblewoman Porzia leaves the cloister she was raised in to marry, but an ambush leaves her with only humble coachman Bartolo by her side. While venturing into dangerous and unknown lands, the two grow increasingly close despite their opposite backgrounds.