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Luisa Ranieri
Italian actress and television presenter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Luisa Ranieri (born 16 December 1973) is an Italian actress.[1] She made her breakthrough in Leonardo Pieraccioni's The Prince and the Pirate (2001) before starring in a variety of Rai crime and biographical miniseries. Her other film credits include romantic comedy Letters to Juliet (2011), drama Fasten Your Seatbelts (2014), biographical drama The Music of Silence (2017), thriller Naples in Veils (2017), drama The Hand of God (2021), romantic drama Nuovo Olimpo (2023), and dramas Parthenope and Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness (both 2024).
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Callas e Onassis
Ranieri is best known for her television movie portrayal of the opera diva Maria Callas in the 2005 Italian television film Callas e Onassis, which began her acting career.[2] Though a number of fiction and nonfiction movies, and documentaries, have been done on the late shipping magnate billionaire Aristotle Onassis, and of Callas, the TV movie Callas e Onassis is the only television or movie depiction ever made exclusively devoted to the public and private deep emotional relationship and close friendship between Onassis and Callas.
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Other appearances
Ranieri had a noteworthy acting performance in the 2010 drama film Letters to Juliet as one of Juliet's secretaries, who is the closest to Sophie, played by Amanda Seyfried. She also played the role of Assunta Goretti, the mother of Maria Goretti, in the 2003 film Maria Goretti, an Italian television movie based on real-life events of the Catholic virgin-martyr and saint, Maria Goretti. In 2014, Ranieri hosted the opening and closing nights of the 71st Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy.[3]
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Filmography
Films
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