Paola Dionisotti

Paola Dionisotti

Born: January 1, 1946
in Torino, Italy

Movies for Paola Dionisotti...

Royal Shakespeare Company: Henry VI, Part II
Title: Royal Shakespeare Company: Henry VI, Part II
Character: Winchester
Released: May 26, 2023
Type: Movie
Henry VI: Rebellion: As fighting and division in the corridors of power continues, and Henry’s hold on the English throne wavers, ordinary men and women start to speak out. But as the people rise in protest, who is behind their rebellion? Directed by Owen Horsley.
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Royal Shakespeare Company: Henry VI, Part III
Title: Royal Shakespeare Company: Henry VI, Part III
Character: Exeter
Released: May 26, 2023
Type: Movie
Henry VI: Wars of the Roses: In this thrilling climax, the tussle for the English crown escalates to the battlefield as the families of Lancaster and York drench their brutal conflict in sweat and blood. Directed by Owen Horsley.
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Florence Foster Jenkins
Title: Florence Foster Jenkins
Character: Baroness Le Feyre
Released: May 6, 2016
Type: Movie
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
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RSC Live: Henry IV Part 1
Title: RSC Live: Henry IV Part 1
Character: Mistress Quickly
Released: February 2, 2015
Type: Movie
With his crown under threat from enemies both foreign and domestic, Henry IV prepares for war. Having deposed the previous king, he is only too aware how tenuous his position is, and the price to be paid if he falters.
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Title: Game of Thrones
Character: Anya Waynwood
Released: April 17, 2011
Type: TV
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
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My Mother's Coat
Title: My Mother's Coat
Character: Narrator
Released: February 14, 2009
Type: Movie
On being a stranger in a strange land, and evaluating your priorities.
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Love's Brother
Title: Love's Brother
Character: Nonna
Released: April 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Set in rural Australia and Tuscany in the 1950's, this is the story of two brothers and the bride who - as fate would have it - arrives from Italy betrothed to one yet falls madly in love with the other.
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Title: Spine Chillers
Released: June 23, 2003
Type: TV
Anthology series of black comedies, which sets out to deliver excellent stories with a darkly comic twist.
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Intimacy
Title: Intimacy
Character: Amanda in 'The Glass Menagerie'
Released: January 20, 2001
Type: Movie
Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the rest of her life. This eventually disrupts their relationship.
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Come and Go
Title: Come and Go
Character: Flo
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Samuel Beckett's short play from 1965. Three women meet on a bench; they reminisce about their old school days and whisper terrible secrets.
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Vigo
Title: Vigo
Character: Marie
Released: September 14, 1998
Type: Movie
Based on the life of a classic french cineast Jean Vigo, the story follows his daily struggle with sanity, normal life and uncompromising filmmaking. Story also focuses on his relationship with his supporting wife whom he met in sanatorium.
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The Tichborne Claimant
Title: The Tichborne Claimant
Character: The Dowager
Released: August 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite Afro-English valet, Bogle, is sent to investigate rumors that Tichborne survived and settled in Australia. An alcoholic ruffian answer's Bogle's inquiries claiming to be the lost heir. Bogle suspects fraud, but conspires with the claimant to split the inheritance should the latter succesfully pass himself off to friends, family and the courts. As the claimant returns to England to continue his charade, enough people confirm his identity to make both the claimant and Bogle believe that he just might be the rightful heir after all.
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Les Misérables
Title: Les Misérables
Character: Forewoman
Released: May 1, 1998
Type: Movie
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Mrs. Stroud
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Richard II
Title: Richard II
Character: Duchess of Gloucester
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
The incompetent Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer king.
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Title: Peak Practice
Character: Nancy Thurston
Released: May 10, 1993
Type: TV
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
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Title: The House of Eliott
Character: Mrs. Partini
Released: August 31, 1991
Type: TV
Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Mrs Goodbody
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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Title: Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
Character: Miss Hinchcliffe
Released: February 28, 1985
Type: TV
An advertisement announcing the time and place of a forthcoming murder appears among the ads of the paper in the small village of Chipping Cleghorn.
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Title: Miss Marple
Character: Miss Hinchcliffe
Released: December 26, 1984
Type: TV
Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English crime writer Agatha Christie, is portrayed by Joan Hickson who starred in a dozen television mysteries about Miss Marple over the course of a decade.
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Sakharov
Title: Sakharov
Character: Patient's Wife
Released: June 20, 1984
Type: Movie
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
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Fords on Water
Title: Fords on Water
Character: Eddie's Mother
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Influential, cult classic, UK buddy road movie about two friends, one white and one black, who bond over their desire to escape from boredom and unemployment in Thatcher's Britain.
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Title: The Young Ones
Character: DHSS Offical
Released: November 9, 1982
Type: TV
The misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rik, the overblown political one addicted to Cliff Richard, Vyvian the experimental scientific one/part-time anarchist, Neil the worried hippy, and Mike the ladies' man (at least he is in his mind).
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Title: The Young Ones
Character: Actor
Released: November 9, 1982
Type: TV
The misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rik, the overblown political one addicted to Cliff Richard, Vyvian the experimental scientific one/part-time anarchist, Neil the worried hippy, and Mike the ladies' man (at least he is in his mind).
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Baal
Title: Baal
Character: Porter's Wife
Released: February 2, 1982
Type: Movie
Baal is an amoral poetic genius who, after a life of debauchery, betrayal and violence, is about to cut his ties to the world and meet his doom. A high society party is where the end begins.
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Commitments
Title: Commitments
Character: Claire
Released: January 26, 1982
Type: Movie
Three-day weeks, strikes and the lights going out - the winter of 1973-4 finally spurs Hugh into political action. But is his new-found zeal going to be enough for the unexpected demands the new life makes of him?
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Minor Complications
Title: Minor Complications
Character: Kay
Released: November 18, 1980
Type: Movie
Kay Gilbert goes into hospital for a minor operation which goes badly wrong. Based on an actual case, this play tells the story of her fight for compensation.
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The Sailor's Return
Title: The Sailor's Return
Character: Lucy Sturmey
Released: November 15, 1978
Type: Movie
Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown to open a pub bringing with him his new black wife. Very quickly they find themselves ostracised by the community.
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We Never Do What They Want
Title: We Never Do What They Want
Character: Joanne
Released: May 16, 1978
Type: Movie
An everyday story of Alternative Society folk, beginning in 1969. It traced the developing relationship of three people from then until present 1978. Frank, a radical social worker just out of mental hospital after a nervous breakdown, was being nursed back to health by Linda, a hairdresser, in the absence of his 'girl friend. Joanna, on a social work project. By the second scene. Frank and Linda were married with a baby daughter, and Frank had opted for a cushy teaching job in a middle class school and even betrayed his Left-wing idealism to the point of joining the Labour Party.
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Knots
Title: Knots
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A touring company of actors arriving at a theatre, rehearsing and preparing a performance of a revue based on the book 'Knots' by R.D. Laing, devised by Edward Petherbridge