Ilaria Occhini

Biography

Ilaria Occhini (28 March 1934 – 20 July 2019) was an Italian stage, television and film actress. She appeared in more than 30 films. Born in Florence, niece and daughter of novelists, Occhini started her film career at 19 with the Luciano Emmer's comedy film Terza Liceo with the stage name Isabella Redi, then attended the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in Rome, graduating in 1957. The same year she back to acting with Mario Monicelli's Il medico e lo stregone, and at the same time she debuted on stage with Luchino Visconti's La ragazza delle smirne and had her first leading role in the Anton Giulio Majano's TV series Jane Eyre. In 1959 she appeared in the television adaptation The Vicar of Wakefield. Her mother, Gioconda Papini (1910-1954), was one of the two daughters of writer Giovanni Papini and his wife Giacinta Giovagnoli, the other being writer Viola Paszkowski Papini. Her father was writer, art historian and journalist Barna Occhini (pseudonym of Carlo Luigi Occhini) (1905-1978), the son of senator Pier Ludovico Occhini and his wife Maria Luisa Tettamanzi. Occhini obtained her major successes on stage, working several times with Luchino Visconti, then joining the Piccolo Tea…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Loose Cannons (2010) — La nonna
2. A Perfect Family (2012) — Rosa
3. Two Men in Town (1973) — Sophie Strabliggi
4. Complexes (1965) — Gabriella (I)
5. Father Matteo (2000) — Elena Lombardi Satriani
6. All at Sea (2011) — Signora Valeria
7. Benvenuti in casa Gori (1990) — Adele Papini
8. Doctor and the Healer (1957) — Rosina
9. The Shortest Day (1963) — Crocerossina (uncredited)
10. Don Milani - Il priore di Barbiana (1997) — Don Milani's mother
11. Hearth Fires (1972) — Clotilde
12. Ritorno a casa Gori (1996) — Adele Papini
13. Almost a Man (1966) — Elena
14. Damon and Pythias (1962) — Nerissa
15. His Women (1961) — Daniela
16. Carthage in Flames (1960) — Ophir
17. Black Sea (2009) — Gemma Pratesi
18. The Tramplers (1965) — Edith Wickett
19. The Man Who Laughs (1966) — Dea
20. Boom (1999) — Elide (segment "Il figlio di Maciste")
21. Brigade Anti Gangs (1966) — Angèle Le Goff
22. Provaci ancora prof (2005) — Andreina Baudino
23. The Dragon's Blood (1958) — Crimilde
24. Tomorrow (2001) — Mrs. Moccia
25. The Betrothed (1964) — La monaca di Monza
26. Pizza Colonia (1991) — Severina Serboli
27. Meglio tardi che mai (1999) — Emma Di Carlo
28. Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté (2004) — Self - Interviewee
29. High School (1954) — Isabella
30. Piazza di Spagna (1992) — Annina Cascone
31. The Return (1973) — Francesca
32. Pia de' Tolomei (1958) — Pia de' Tolomei
33. Puccini (1973) — Elvira
34. Il gabbiano (1969) — Nina Michàjlovna Zarèčnaja
35. Ricorda con rabbia — Helena Charles
36. Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana (Teatro)
37. Jane Eyre (1957) — Jane Eyre
38. La ragazza americana (2011) — Bice
39. La fiera della vanità — Amelia "Emmy" Sedley