Paola Cortellesi

Paola Cortellesi

Born: November 24, 1973
in Rome, Lazio, Italy
Paola Cortellesi (born 24 November 1973) is an eclectic Italian actress, singer, voice actress, film director, and presenter. She began her career in television with the show Macao, presented by Alba Parietti, but eventually reached nationwide popularity as a comic actress in the TV show Mai dire Gol by the Gialappa's Band (2000), which, in particular, showcased her skills at parodying famous people, a genre where she collected some of her most appreciated performances (the latest one being her parody of Milan's mayor Letizia Moratti in the 2010-2011 edition of the popular TV show Zelig).

Other major performances of Cortellesi on television include the 2004 edition of the San Remo Music Festival and the leading role in the TV movie Maria Montessori: Una vita per i bambini, a biography of Maria Montessori, for which Cortellesi received the "Maximo Award" at the Roma Fiction Fest. Her career in cinema includes several appreciated performances in comedies and comic movies, including a leading role in Tu la conosci Claudia?, a very popular production starring the comic trio Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo. In 2008, she was nominated for the David di Donatello award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the movie Piano, solo by Riccardo Milani. In 2011 she won the David di Donatello for Best Actress for her leading role in Escort in Love.

*Source:* **Wikipedia**

Movies for Paola Cortellesi...

There's Still Tomorrow
Title: There's Still Tomorrow
Character: Delia
Released: October 26, 2023
Type: Movie
In post-war Italy, the family of typical housewife Delia is in turmoil over the impending engagement of beloved firstborn Marcella. The arrival of a mysterious letter, however, will ignite Delia's courage to face her abusive husband and imagine a better future.
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Title: GialappaShow
Character: Self
Released: May 21, 2023
Type: TV
Alongside Marco Santin and Giorgio Gherarducci the Magician Forest, historical faces such as Ubaldo Pantani, Marcello Cesena and many new comedians who will make fun of MasterChef Italia, X Factor, Beijing Express, Ex On the beach and the most important sporting events and catchphrases of the web
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Title: Call My Agent - Italia
Released: January 20, 2023
Type: TV
Welcome behind the scenes of Italian show business from the point of view of those in charge of managing the careers - and lives - of the stars: the agents. Lea, Gabriele, Vittorio and Elvira are the soul of CMA and they give their souls to it, ready for anything to make their stars shine. Managers, friends, confidants and psychologists: a good agent is all that and more. And they, each with their own style, are the best. Between hectic days and mundane nights, it's their personal lives that lose out -- but deep down they have too much fun to notice. With the departure of founder Claudio Maiorana, however, things will get a little more complicated.
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I cassamortari
Title: I cassamortari
Character: Se stessa (non accreditata)
Released: March 24, 2022
Type: Movie
In Rome, the Cassamortari are people who work in the funeral business. The Pasti family's agency was founded by Giuseppe, who is willing to do anything to turn a corpse into money, preferably in black.
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Luigi Proietti detto Gigi
Title: Luigi Proietti detto Gigi
Character: Self
Released: March 3, 2022
Type: Movie
Documentary about the film and theater career of the roman actor, Gigi Proietti, who passed away on 2 November 2020
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The Legend of the Christmas Witch: The Origins
Title: The Legend of the Christmas Witch: The Origins
Character: Paola
Released: December 30, 2021
Type: Movie
18th century. Paola, a young, reckless street urchin inadvertently gets in the way of the plans of terrifying Baron De Michelis, a small and mean hunchback always escorted by his trusted (and abused) minion Marmotta, with an unquenchable thirst for power and an unmeasurable hate for witches. The intervention of the sweet and powerful Dolores, a good witch who has devoted her life to children, saves Paola from being burned at the stake. Through a magical apprenticeship, breakneck pursuits, incredible transformations and a whole lot of trouble, Paola will discover that fate has something really special in store for her… And so the legend begins.
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We Are Cinema
Title: We Are Cinema
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 16, 2021
Type: Movie
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
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Vitti d'arte, Vitti d'amore
Title: Vitti d'arte, Vitti d'amore
Character: Sé stassa
Released: October 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Necessarily far from the spotlights, Monica Vitti shines in a light intact to the eyes of spectators at every latitude. On scene the artistic path and life full of unpredictable events of an actress both introverted and sunny are recalled, through excerpts from her films and television programs, testimonies of friends and colleagues, leading exponents of Italian cinema of yesterday and today, critics, writers and costume experts.
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Title: Dinner Club
Character: Paola Cortellesi
Released: September 24, 2021
Type: TV
Michelin-starred chef Carlo Cracco undertakes six trips across Italy to rediscover its most authentic cuisine with famous actors for each destination.
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Like a Cat on a Highway 2
Title: Like a Cat on a Highway 2
Character: Monica
Released: August 14, 2021
Type: Movie
Three years after her relationship with Giovanni, Monica is in prison and has to ask his ex for help.
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Title: Petra
Character: l'ispettrice Petra Delicato
Released: December 6, 2020
Type: TV
The unconventional Petra Delicato is tasked with solving violent crimes alongside an old-school policeman. The two couldn’t be more different - but their shared determination to uncover the truth leads to a successful partnership.
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Nilde Iotti, il tempo delle donne
Title: Nilde Iotti, il tempo delle donne
Character: Herself
Released: November 9, 2020
Type: Movie
Thanks to archive material, reminiscences by those who knew her, and her own reflections vividly recited by actress Paola Cortellesi, the personal story and political career of Nilde Iotti transcends the biographical and touches the core of our own lives today.
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Kidz
Title: Kidz
Character: Sara
Released: January 23, 2020
Type: Movie
Sara and Nicola are expecting their second son. Through the late Mattia Torre's sharp look, all the joys and sorrows of being a parent in the modern day Italy are unraveled in an absolutely brilliant and witty way.
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Don't Stop Me Now
Title: Don't Stop Me Now
Character: Giovanna
Released: April 18, 2019
Type: Movie
Paola, a modern woman used to the hardships of modern life, takes her chance to make things right for herself.
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Detective per caso
Title: Detective per caso
Character: Ispettore Maria Bellamore
Released: March 18, 2019
Type: Movie
Giulia dreams to become a detective since she was little. When one night her cousin dissapears, Giulia starts searching for him with the help of her friends.
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The Legend of the Christmas Witch
Title: The Legend of the Christmas Witch
Character: Paola
Released: December 27, 2018
Type: Movie
When six elementary school students suspect their missing teacher is Befana, a Christmas witch who delivers presents to good children, they set off on a magical journey to save her.
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Like a Cat on a Highway
Title: Like a Cat on a Highway
Character: Monica
Released: December 28, 2017
Type: Movie
The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love.
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Mom or Dad?
Title: Mom or Dad?
Character: Valeria
Released: February 14, 2017
Type: Movie
A divorced couple fights for the custody of their three children: neither of them wants it. Mom wants to leave them to dad, and vice versa.
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Something New
Title: Something New
Character: Lucia
Released: October 13, 2016
Type: Movie
Lucia and Maria are two best friends, who have known each other from the beginning of their life, but have very different tastes and behaviors. Lucia is done with men, Maria, on the contrary, cannot be without one. One night, the perfect man shows up in Maria's bed: handsome, sensible, mature and passionate.The next morning brings up misunderstandings and lies which make the two friends split up and take a break for themselves. Maybe that young man met by chance is really the one every woman is looking for, because with his simple theories he manages to paint the perfect picture of the two women's lives.
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Callas
Title: Callas
Character: Maria Callas
Released: December 4, 2015
Type: Movie
For the first time together, Dario Fo and Paola Cortellesi take the spectator through a journey in the life of Maria Callas in the last play written by Fo and the late Franca Rame.
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Animeland: Racconti tra manga, anime e cosplay
Title: Animeland: Racconti tra manga, anime e cosplay
Character: Herself
Released: November 15, 2015
Type: Movie
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The Last Will Be the Last
Title: The Last Will Be the Last
Character: Luciana Colacci
Released: November 12, 2015
Type: Movie
Luciana is a factory worker married to the love of her life. She is living the simple and quiet life she’s always desired: she works and she is deeply in love with her husband Stefano, even if he doesn’t always have a job and they both need to struggle to keep on going. They are happy and always on each other’s side, but shortly after she finds out she’s pregnant, she gets fired and her world starts falling apart. After having tried to have a baby for years, the joy of impending motherhood lasts only a few months. Begging for help but with no one ready to listen to her, completely desperate and shattered, Luciana decides to kidnap the managing director of her former company, asking for the justice she deserves.
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Wondrous Boccaccio
Title: Wondrous Boccaccio
Character: Badessa Usimbalda
Released: February 26, 2015
Type: Movie
It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, between moral doubts and the tasks needed to survive, they kill time by telling each other stories until they will decide to return. The stories are varied - tragic, bizarre, funny or erotic - but common and central to all of them is the female presence.
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Do You See Me?
Title: Do You See Me?
Character: Serena Bruno
Released: November 20, 2014
Type: Movie
Serena Bruno is an architect who studied and got several masters in different countries of the world but she decides to go back to Italy so she can live and work there. She will soon find out that her native country is not as open minded and she will struggle to find a job that she truly loves and is passionate about. Along the way she will meet Francesco a gay man who will help and support her throughout her journey.
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Sotto una buona stella
Title: Sotto una buona stella
Character: Luisa Tombolini
Released: February 13, 2014
Type: Movie
A wealthy broker, Federico Picchioni, within two days forfeits his partner and work, finishing well to living with two children and granddaughter (abandoned by her father). He is, at this point, in the face of many difficulties of adjustment but finds comfort in the help of his neighbor.
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A Boss in the Living Room
Title: A Boss in the Living Room
Character: Cristina D'Avola/Carmela Cimmaruta
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Cristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina’s home.
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Escort in Love
Title: Escort in Love
Character: Alice
Released: March 18, 2011
Type: Movie
35-year-old Alice has a husband and a son. Her life seems a beautiful dream, but it soon turns out to be a nightmare. Her husband dies in a car accident and her lawyer tells her that she is on her uppers. The only way she has to earn money in a short time is by resorting to the oldest job in history.
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Women Vs Men
Title: Women Vs Men
Character: Chiara
Released: February 4, 2011
Type: Movie
Anna and Piero fighting routine of a long marriage, when Piero loses his memory, Anna reconstructs his way. For its part, the concierge Rocco and his friend Michele play in a group that emulates the Beatles and face opposition from their partners. Finally, Marcello and Paola are a divorced couple who, from time to time, pretend they are still together to avoid problems. They are victims of a relentless war of sexes.
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Some Say No
Title: Some Say No
Character: Irma
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Some Say No is a new Italian comedy with a very serious subject: the way the country's society is corroded by favoritism that pushes inferior people to the top in virtually every field. In Florence, three thirty-somethings band together to wage their own war on the system. Each of them is a person of talent who has been pushed out by "favorites" or raccomandati, people who have muscled in on the promotions they ought to have gotten by pulling strings.
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Title: Longlasting Youth
Character: Nora
Released: December 13, 2010
Type: TV
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Men Vs Women
Title: Men Vs Women
Character: Chiara
Released: October 27, 2010
Type: Movie
From married couples to platonic roommates to testy rivals with romantic chemistry, the never-ending battle of the sexes gets personal.
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La fisica dell'acqua
Title: La fisica dell'acqua
Character: Giulia
Released: April 30, 2010
Type: Movie
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The Ladies Get Their Say
Title: The Ladies Get Their Say
Character: Sofia
Released: March 6, 2009
Type: Movie
Every Thursday a group of ladies would gather to play cards and discuss their loves, lives and children while their daughters played in the next room. Thirty years later, the daughters meet at a funeral for one of the mothers. Like their mothers, they discuss their hopes, dreams and fears.
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Title: Tutti pazzi per amore
Character: Angelica, la voce del paradiso
Released: December 7, 2008
Type: TV
Tutti Pazzi Per Amore is an Italian television series that aired on Rai 1 from December 7, 2008 to January 1, 2012, consisting of three seasons. The show is set in Rome and follows the love story between a single father, Paolo Giorgi, and a single mother, Laura Del Fiore, and the adventures of the extended family that originates from their relationship. The main characters are Paolo Giorgi and his daughter Cristina, Laura Del Fiore and her son Emanuele and her daughter Nina. Around these main characters develops the story of their grandparents, their uncles and aunts, their colleagues and friends.
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Piano, Solo
Title: Piano, Solo
Character: Baba
Released: September 21, 2007
Type: Movie
A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.
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Non prendere impegni stasera
Title: Non prendere impegni stasera
Character: Cinzia
Released: June 15, 2007
Type: Movie
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Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini
Title: Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini
Character: Maria Montessori
Released: May 28, 2007
Type: Movie
The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while the rest of the world immediately understand the importance of her theories. She was the first Italian Doctor, a famous feminist, a scientist. Her private life was hit by having an illegitimate son and by the Fascism that didn't want to accept completely her theories.
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The last will be the last
Title: The last will be the last
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
The characters find themselves in the same place at the same time because of Colacci Luciana. She has gathered them all at gunpoint in the offices at GreenLife Italia headquarters, the company that fired her because of her pregnancy. She just wants her job back.
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Tu la conosci Claudia?
Title: Tu la conosci Claudia?
Character: Claudia
Released: December 15, 2004
Type: Movie
Claudia is married with dull Giovanni. Meek Giacomo is happily divorced until he meets her. Aldo is a colorful cabbie with whom she had an affair. Who will Claudia choose?
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Natale a casa Deejay - A Christmas Carol
Title: Natale a casa Deejay - A Christmas Carol
Released: December 2, 2004
Type: Movie
Il cast di Radio Deejay reinterpreta "Canto di Natale" di Charles Dickens
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Il posto dell'anima
Title: Il posto dell'anima
Character: Nina
Released: May 30, 2003
Type: Movie
Three workers of a tire factory, in southern Italy, lead the struggle against the American company owner of the factory who wants to close the Italian branch in which they work.
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Bell'amico
Title: Bell'amico
Character: Damiana
Released: May 16, 2003
Type: Movie
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Past Perfect
Title: Past Perfect
Character: Claudia
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A pair of summer and winter weekends intertwine in a series of flashbacks involving five friends. Their dreams and expectations overlap with memories of events that took place in the house that they are sharing, which has a particular significance for all of them.
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A cavallo della tigre
Title: A cavallo della tigre
Character: Antonella
Released: November 8, 2002
Type: Movie
Security guard Guido attempts a robbery to solve his financial problems, but he's double-crossed by Antonella, the younger showgirl he left his wife for, who runs off with the money while he gets arrested. In prison, Guido is forcefully involved in the escape plans of two lifers, an old Moroccan and a Turkish gangster. Once free, he sets out to find Antonella, who has since become a TV reporter, but things get complicated...
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Title: Mai dire domenica
Released: January 27, 2002
Type: TV
Show commented by Gialappa's
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Un altr'anno e poi cresco
Title: Un altr'anno e poi cresco
Character: Alessia
Released: July 6, 2001
Type: Movie
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If I Were You
Title: If I Were You
Character: Caterina
Released: May 25, 2001
Type: Movie
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Amarsi può darsi
Title: Amarsi può darsi
Character: Rita
Released: March 1, 2001
Type: Movie
During their divorce trial, Davide and Giulia go back through episodes of their life together while they listen to a series of witnesses. Do they really want to go different ways?
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Ask Me If I'm Happy
Title: Ask Me If I'm Happy
Character: Dalia
Released: December 15, 2000
Type: Movie
Aspiring actors Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while nurturing a passion project, staging their performance of 'Cyrano de Bergerac'. However, love for the same woman will end their friendship. Three years later, Giovanni and Giacomo reunite after hearing that Aldo is dying.
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Title: Mai dire grande fratello
Released: September 29, 2000
Type: TV
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Title: Zelig
Character: Host
Released: May 5, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: Mai dire gol
Released: November 18, 1990
Type: TV
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Title: Sanremo Music Festival
Character: Self - Special Guest
Released: January 29, 1951
Type: TV
The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Title: Sanremo Music Festival
Character: Self - Host
Released: January 29, 1951
Type: TV
The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.