Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
5/15/1921
Place of Birth
Roma, Lazio, Italy
Also Known As
Мария Мики
Maria Michi
Biography
Maria Michi (14 May 1921 – 7 April 1980) was an Italian supporting actress who worked with Roberto Rossellini on his two early neorealism masterpieces: Rome, Open City and Paisà.
Michi worked first as a typist at a law firm, then as an usherette at Teatro Quattro Fontane in Rome. She was noticed and given small parts in the company of Sergio Tofano and Diana Torrieri during the 1942-1943 season. Critic Irene Bignardi called her "a woman very near the resistance and the Communist Party". In 1948, she worked with Christian-Jaque in La Chartreuse de Parme. She was married in September 1949 to Du...
Known For
Fatalità
as Paola
Paisan
as Francesca
Rome, Open City
as Marina Mari
Last Tango in Paris
as Rosa's Mother
The Breach
as La Troisième Parque
Salon Kitty
as Hilde
Mont-Dragon
as Hortense Dubois - la femme d'Armand
Irene, Irene
as Maria
The Charterhouse of Parma
as Marietta
The Laws of War
as signora Macusar
Down the Ancient Stairs
as la pazza aggressiva
The Lady of Monza
as Sister Bianca Homati
Redneck
as Princess
Preludio d'amore
Unknown Role
Brothers Blue
as Mama Blue
What Have You Done to Solange?
as Brenda's Mother (uncredited)
Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis
Unknown Role
L'altra
as 'Angelo' Morelli