Giuliana De Sio

Giuliana De Sio

Born: April 2, 1956
in Salerno, Campania, Italy
Giuliana De Sio was born in Salerno and grew up in Cava de 'Tirreni, where her family originates from. De Sio's first public appearance was her when she was five in a show at the Teatro Verdi in Salerno. She moved to Terrasini when she was eighteen to live in a hippy commune before moving to Rome, where she befriended Teresa Ann Savoy and Alessandro Haber, who encouraged her to start acting. Her professional debut took place in 1976 when Gianni Bongiovanni chose her for Una donna. Elio Petri then gave her a part of her in Mani dirty di lei and Tonino Cervi chooses her to act in The Imaginary Sick with Alberto Sordi.

In the early 1980s she meets Massimo Troisi, who chooses her for an important role in her second film, Sorry for the delay (1982). She subsequently worked with Francesco Nuti in The Pool Hustlers (1982) and Casablanca Casablanca (1985).

Movies for Giuliana De Sio...

Ares Gate: La fabbrica delle illusioni
Title: Ares Gate: La fabbrica delle illusioni
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 22, 2023
Type: Movie
Everything started from the house of Celebrity Big Brother after statements by Adua Del Vesco and Massimiliano Morra. With the death of Teodosio Losito on January 8, 2019, an inquiry was opened by the Prosecutor’s Office of Rome for incitement to suicide, at the end of which the dismissal was requested.
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Title: TV Story Superstar
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 23, 2020
Type: TV
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The Truth About Love Is...
Title: The Truth About Love Is...
Character: Roberta
Released: March 30, 2017
Type: Movie
Dora, raises her two children with the help of her eccentric family, free-spirited best friend, and a charming poet-turned- nanny.
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Title: Amore pensaci tu
Character: Tina
Released: February 17, 2017
Type: TV
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Title: Il Bello Delle Donne...Alcuni Anni Dopo
Character: Annalisa Bottelli
Released: January 13, 2017
Type: TV
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Roma, Napoli, Venezia... in un crescendo rossiniano
Title: Roma, Napoli, Venezia... in un crescendo rossiniano
Character: Isabella Colbran
Released: June 16, 2014
Type: Movie
Rossini plays the tour guide in a voyage through Rome, Naples, and Venice.
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Title: Furore il vento della speranza
Character: Irma Voglino
Released: May 14, 2014
Type: TV
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Title: Rodolfo Valentino - La leggenda
Character: Alla Nazimova
Released: April 17, 2014
Type: TV
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Ci vediamo a casa
Title: Ci vediamo a casa
Character: Madre di Enzo
Released: December 28, 2012
Type: Movie
Three different couples are looking for a house to live.
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Vorrei vederti ballare
Title: Vorrei vederti ballare
Released: December 6, 2012
Type: Movie
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Il console italiano
Title: Il console italiano
Released: January 10, 2011
Type: Movie
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Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano
Title: Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano
Character: Self
Released: November 5, 2010
Type: Movie
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Title: Il peccato e la vergogna
Character: Bigiù
Released: November 1, 2010
Type: TV
In Rome in the thirties lives Nito Valdi, a difficult boy just out of the reformatory, who works for a local boss together with his friend Tony. The meeting with the beautiful Carmen will take Nito's life to an unexpected turn: after the loss of his greatest friend, with the arrival of fascism Valdi approaches the Blackshirts, while he becomes Carmen's worst nightmare. Nito is obsessed with her and wants her at any cost. But Carmen is expecting a child with Giancarlo, scion of one of the most prominent families in Rome: the Fontamaras. The story of Carmen and Nito, who turns out to be a Nazi psychopath, is intertwined with that of the Fontamaras, who have just discovered that they have Jewish origins and therefore must leave Italy to avoid falling victim to those like Valdi.
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Title: Mogli a pezzi
Character: Armida Casoni
Released: May 12, 2008
Type: TV
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Title: Crimini
Character: Laura
Released: December 6, 2006
Type: TV
Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)
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Title: L'onore e il rispetto
Character: Concetta De Nicola
Released: September 5, 2006
Type: TV
L'onore e il rispetto is an Italian television series. There are three seasons, each with six episodes: first season aired in 2006, second in 2009 and third in 2012. First season was directed by Salvatore Samperi, second by Samperi and Luigi Parisi, third by Parisi and Alessio Inturri. On October 2, 2012 Gabriel Garko announced through an interview with Tgcom 24 [1], which will soon turn a fourth season of the TV series.
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The Short Night
Title: The Short Night
Character: Lara
Released: May 4, 2006
Type: Movie
After twenty-five years, lawyer Lara Degli Esposti finds the son she had abandoned at birth is the main suspect in a murder case.
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Title: Caterina e le sue figlie
Character: Concetta Melita 'Cetty' Saponero dal Puozzo
Released: December 4, 2005
Type: TV
Caterina e le sue figlie is an Italian television series that aired from December 4, 2005 to March 3, 2010 on Canale 5. The comedy series follows single mother Catherine as she tries to balance raising three daughters alone and dating.
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A luci spente
Title: A luci spente
Character: Elena Monti
Released: May 15, 2004
Type: Movie
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Ti voglio bene Eugenio
Title: Ti voglio bene Eugenio
Character: Elena
Released: January 18, 2002
Type: Movie
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Title: Beauty Centre
Character: Annalisa Bottelli Renzi Di Balsano
Released: March 7, 2001
Type: TV
The story begins with the return of Anna Borsi from the summer holiday, with her children Sara and Michelino and with the subsequent discovery of the death of her husband, Armando. Anna finds herself facing a sea of ​​debts, but advised by her husband's accountant, Francesca Cialdi, and helped by the hairdresser Luca Manfridi and the interior decorator Vicky Melzi, she decides to open a hairdressing shop for ladies: "Il Bello delle Donne".
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Mary Magdalene
Title: Mary Magdalene
Character: Erodiade
Released: April 24, 2000
Type: Movie
Employed as a spy and given the task of investigating the threat posed by John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene is overwhelmed by John's powerful message of the coming of the Messiah. Gazing into John's eyes before he dies, Mary is left with the certainty that her place is at the side of this great man, Jesus Christ.
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Title: Ciao Darwin
Character: Capitana Quarantenni
Released: October 3, 1998
Type: TV
Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.
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Angelo Nero
Title: Angelo Nero
Character: Iris
Released: June 24, 1998
Type: Movie
Jack Altieri, a young Italian-American restaurant owner, arrives at Vesta awaits him a painting of the sixteenth century that depicts the veiled face of Medea of Carpi, noble woman processed to witchcraft. Shortly after the arrival of Jack, a country girl is killed in a mysterious way, dropping the suspicions of the Commissioner Gianzi on the young restorer, who is soon advised to not complete the work on the opera, because it would hide an ancient curse.
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Title: Der Kapitän
Character: Dr. Sophia Minardi
Released: January 4, 1997
Type: TV
Der Kapitän is a German television series.
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Italiani
Title: Italiani
Character: Margherita
Released: March 1, 1996
Type: Movie
1965, a train with a variety of passengers is heading north when it makes an unexpected stop. On the other track, heading south, a train passes with the same passengers 20 years later.
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La vera vita di Antonio H.
Title: La vera vita di Antonio H.
Released: September 2, 1994
Type: Movie
This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessandro Haber), the unfortunate fictional alter-ego of legendary actor Alessandro Haber. This surreal faux-biography begins with Hutter's birth in Bologna, Italy, and his early life in the Middle East and follows him through the highs and lows of his acting career, using a combination of interviews with real-life colleagues, archival footage and improvised scenes along the way.
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Per non dimenticare
Title: Per non dimenticare
Released: October 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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Title: Wolffs Revier
Character: Wanda Treptow
Released: September 17, 1992
Type: TV
Wolffs Revier is a German television series.
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Centro storico
Title: Centro storico
Character: Sandra
Released: September 11, 1992
Type: Movie
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The Wicked
Title: The Wicked
Character: Emilia
Released: October 7, 1991
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived patient, a young Italian woman who has mysteriously developed schizophrenia. To identify the causes of her condition, he employs psychoanalytic methods to dig into her sexual past, despite objections by the old-fashioned chief physician.
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Feu sur le candidat
Title: Feu sur le candidat
Released: July 4, 1990
Type: Movie
Robert Cavaillon is the king of the pet food industry. After he sold the factory to his workers, he decided to run for office. His campaign in support of animal rights gives him a lead in the opinion polls - which worries the main political parties. Since his past is unassailable, his political opponents decide to give the job of getting rid of him to a bizarre couple - a professional killer called Jean and a high-class call girl named Clara. The pair has to ruin him with scandal and then eliminate him for good. Jean's first attempt at his task is a failure: instead of a killer he ends up looking like Cavaillon's savior and friend. Clara is forced to play the role of the killer's tender wife, because their victim sees them as a kindly pair not interested in using him for his position like everyone else. Between one bungled assassination attempt and the next, the three are enmeshed in an intense relationship in which their roles all change.
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What if Gargiulo Finds Out?
Title: What if Gargiulo Finds Out?
Character: Teresa Capece
Released: May 15, 1988
Type: Movie
Teresa is a nurse and does not have an easy life: her husband plays poker and next to her she sleeps only and the father organizes the illegal lot among the sick. So one night Teresa is involved, in spite of herself, in a whirlwind of ambiguous situations, together with Ferdinando and Friariello, met by chance, between camorristi, dog races and a bingo of which he unknowingly becomes the prize. But "has to pass" to "nuttata", this is certain, but how?
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Private Affairs
Title: Private Affairs
Character: Nagra
Released: December 29, 1987
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the fashion and television world of Rome.
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I picari
Title: I picari
Character: Rosario, the prostitute
Released: December 18, 1987
Type: Movie
The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.
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Let's Hope It's a Girl
Title: Let's Hope It's a Girl
Character: Franca
Released: February 6, 1986
Type: Movie
Let's Hope It's a Girl is a multifaceted exploration of the pointlessness of sexual stereotypes. Liv Ullmann is a countess who, after her divorce, takes over the family farm. Realizing that she can't rely on the patriarchal society structure for assistance, Ullmann runs the farm herself with the help of her female servants and relatives. When the Count (Philipe Noiret) comes back into her life, he and his male buddies find themselves outclassed by the expertise of the ladies.
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Casablanca Casablanca
Title: Casablanca Casablanca
Character: Chiara
Released: February 16, 1985
Type: Movie
Francesco forgot billiards because now he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would like to become famous. Francesco is different: he found in her the reason of his life. But when she accepts a job far from home, Francesco comes back to billiards.
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Uno scandalo perbene
Title: Uno scandalo perbene
Character: Giulia Canella
Released: October 19, 1984
Type: Movie
Based on a real-life mystery in the newspapers after World War I, this conventional, straightforward story is about a poorly-dressed man who is brought into the police station in Turin for stealing flower pots from the cemetery. He is rather brutally interrogated, and then because he has no idea who he is or where he belongs, he is put into an asylum for the mentally disturbed. After his photograph is published in the newspapers, a woman shows up at the institution claiming that he is Professor Canella, her missing and wealthy husband. The news obtains the release of the amnesiac, but his claim is quickly and hotly contested by another family, arguing that the man is an imposter. As a result, his case goes back to court and in the meantime, the "professor" is put in jail. As the courtroom drama continues, there are various clues that suggest whether or not the amnesiac has been accurately identified and by whom.
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Title: Cuore
Character: Maestrina dalla penna rossa
Released: October 4, 1984
Type: TV
Enrico Bottini, an engineering student, prepares to serve as an officer when Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. At the train station, he meets Garrone, an old friend from elementary school, and begins to reminisce on the values instilled to him by both school and his father.
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One Hundred Days in Palermo
Title: One Hundred Days in Palermo
Character: Emmanuela Setti Carraro
Released: April 6, 1984
Type: Movie
In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo and take on the Mafia. Dalla Chiesa approaches the job with the same focus and methods he used in hunting down the Red Brigade.
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Title: The Octopus
Character: Giulia Antinari
Released: March 11, 1984
Type: TV
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
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The Pool Hustlers
Title: The Pool Hustlers
Character: Chiara
Released: March 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Francesco, nicknamed 'Toscano', is a very good pool player but he never wins when he plays for money. He meets Chiara, a saxophone player, on a late night bus by swapping his case containing the cue with her one, containing the sax. The two fall in love, but in the meantime Francesco loses a big amount of money playing versus 'Scuro', the long-time Italian champion. His only chance to pay the debt is to win the Italian Championships.
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Sorry for the Delay
Title: Sorry for the Delay
Character: Anna
Released: March 10, 1983
Type: Movie
Vincenzo, a 30 years old apathetic and lazy man who still lives with his mother, has no job and no desire to improve. He meets Anna and fell in love with her but to keep the relationship alive he has to learn to accept more responsibility.
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Hypochondriac
Title: Hypochondriac
Character: Angelica
Released: December 20, 1979
Type: Movie
During the year 1673, Rome was besieged by poverty and violence. The rich Mr. Argante has two servants to look after him, while his wife is only waiting to see him dead to inherit.
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Rue du Pied de Grue
Title: Rue du Pied de Grue
Character: Luisa
Released: November 7, 1979
Type: Movie
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Title: Dirty Hands
Character: Jessica
Released: November 14, 1978
Type: TV
The story is set in Illyria, fictional central European country, towards the end of World War II. A young man infiltrates into the house of a left-wing politician as his secretary. By order of the Communist party, the young man has to kill the politician, who is suspected of a strategy of compromise with other parties.
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San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Title: San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Character: Cesira
Released: March 2, 1976
Type: Movie
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Title: Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1966
Type: TV
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Title: Bambi Awards
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: TV
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.