Alessandra Martines
Born (1963-09-19) 19 September 1963 (age 60)
Rome, Italy
EducationConservatoire de Paris
Occupations
  • Dancer
  • actress
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1993; div. 2009)​

Cyril Descours (2008–2018)
Children2
Websitehttps://www.alessandramartines.com/

Alessandra Martines (born 19 September 1963) is an Italian French dancer and actress mainly working in the English, French and Italian speaking-worlds.[1][2][3][4] She started young in ballet on opera stages in Switzerland, France, the United States and then Italy before becoming a lead on television for RAI captured ballets and entertainment shows (the Italian national public broadcasting) in the eighties.[5]

She is primarily known for portraying the main role in the cult Fantaghirò series, consisting of five films (1991–1996) still regularly re-run across Europe as of 2020, and for her work in auteur productions such as nine films by Claude Lelouch to whom she was married until 2009.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

She was awarded numerous prizes including the Best Actress Telegatto for The Cave of the Golden Rose (1991),[17] the Grolla d'oro for Edda [it] (2005),[18][19] the Silver Hugo for Best Actress at the Chicago International Film Festival (1998) for Chance or Coincidence, the Diamanti al Cinema Award in Cannes (2007)[20] or the 2009 European Golden Globe in Rome.[21] In 2008, she was made Knight of the Ordre national du Mérite awarded by the President of the French Republic.[22] She received the lifetime achievement Kineo Award at the 71st Venice International Film Festival in 2014.[23]

Early life

Second cousin of Carla Bruni and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi,[24][25][26] she moved to France with her family at the age of five. As a teenager, she enrolled at the Conservatoire de Paris where she studied solfeggio, history and theory of dance and classical music and dance.[27]

Career

Martines debuted at a young age as a dancer at the Zurich Opera House in 1972.[28] After some time working in the United States, including the Chicago City Ballet, she moved to Rome where she worked at the Teatro dell'Opera.[28] In 1985 she began her collaboration with RAI, with the lunchtime chat / quiz show Pronto, chi gioca?; she later gained great popularity with the Saturday Night shows Fantastico and Europa Europa, and then for her portrayal of Princess Fantaghirò in the Fantaghirò series.[28]

In cinema, she is best known for her interpretations under the direction of her ex-husband, the French director Claude Lelouch, in several film including Les Misérables and And now... Ladies and Gentlemen. She also starred on stage, most notably in L'appartamento by Franca Valeri.[28]

Personal life

Martines has a daughter with Claude Lelouch to whom she was married between 1995–2009. In 2012, at the age of 49, she had a son with her partner Cyril Descours.[29]

Stage

Dancer

Year Company Director
1972 Ballett Zürich Patricia Neary
1975 New York City Ballet George Balanchine
- Chicago Ballet Maria Tallchief & Paul Mejia
- Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (Fedra (Mayr) & Carmen) Maïa Plissetskaïa
- Opéra de Marseille Roland Petit
Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi Roland Petit

Theatre

Year Play Playwright Director
1987–1988 Adriana Lecouvreur An opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the 1849 play Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé. Mauro Bolognini
1988–1989 The Apartment Billy Wilder Franca Valeri
2016 Lady Windermere's Fan Oscar Wilde - Mrs. Erlynne Jean-Luc Revol [fr] - Théâtre Tête d'or [fr] / France national tour: September 3 - December 31, 2016.

Filmography

Cinema

Year Film Role Director
1988 Miss Arizona Marta Pál Sándor
1989 Sinbad of the Seven Seas Alina Enzo G. Castellari, Luigi Cozzi
Saremo felici [it] Jole Gianfrancesco Lazotti
Passi d'amore [it] Elisa Sergio Sollima
1993 Tout ça... pour ça! Allessandra Barrucq Claude Lelouch
1995 Les Misérables Elise Ziman Claude Lelouch
1996 Men, Women: A User's Manual Doctor Nitez Claude Lelouch
1998 Chance or Coincidence Miriam Lini Claude Lelouch
1999 One 4 All Maxime Claude Lelouch
2001 Day Off Francesca Socoa Pascal Thomas
J'ai faim !!! Anaïs Pommard Florence Quentin
2002 Amnèsia Virginie Gabriele Salvatores
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen Françoise Claude Lelouch
2004 Le genre humain - 1ère partie: Les Parisiens Herself Claude Lelouch
2005 Le courage d'aimer Alessandra Claude Lelouch
2007 L'Heure Zéro Marie-Adeline Pascal Thomas
2008 Love Me No More Marion Dange Jean Becker
2011 Je m'appelle Bernadette [fr] Louise Soubirous Jean Sagols [fr]
2017 L'Araignée Rouge [fr] Sonia Stern Franck Florino

Television

Year Film Role Director
1988 Cinema che follia! [it] Antonello Falqui [it]
1991 Fantaghirò Fantaghirò Lamberto Bava
1992 Processo di famiglia Giovanni Fabbri
Fantaghirò 2 Fantaghirò Lamberto Bava
1993 Fantaghirò 3 Fantaghirò Lamberto Bava
Colpo di coda Paola José María Sánchez
1994 Fantaghirò 4 Fantaghirò Lamberto Bava
1996 Fantaghirò 5 Fantaghirò Lamberto Bava
2003 Quelques jours entre nous Juliette Virginie Sauveur [fr]
2004 Saint John Bosco: Mission to Love Marchesa Barolo Lodovico Gasparini [it]
2005–2010 Caterina e le sue figlie Adele Parisi Several
2005 I colori della vita [it] Giulia Stefano Reali
Edda [it] Edda Ciano Giorgio Capitani
2006 L'onore e il rispetto Francesca De Santis Alessio Inturri, Luigi Parisi, Salvatore Samperi
2008 Il sangue e la rosa [it] Ortensia Damiani Luciano Odorisio, Luigi Parisi, Salvatore Samperi
2009 La reine et le cardinal Anne of Austria Marc Rivière
L'Onore e il Rispetto Francesca De Santis Luigi Parisi, Salvatore Samperi
Panique ! [fr] Clémentine Benoît d'Aubert [fr]
2011 Inspector Rex Malice Bonomi Marco Serafini
2012 Le Romancier Martin Jérôme Foulon [fr]
2014 Furore [it] Luciana Belgrano Alessio Inturri
2016 Il bello delle donne... alcuni anni dopo [it] Françoise Leroux Eros Puglielli [it]

Presenter or Jury Member

Year Film Role Director
2011 Danse avec les stars (French version of Strictly Come Dancing) Jury member for season 1 & season 2. TF1 - several.
2013–2014 The Best : Le Meilleur Artiste [fr] Jury member for season 1 & season 2. TF1 - several.

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