Monica Guerritore
Born	(1958-01-05)5 January 1958 Rome, Italy
Occupations	Actress director
Years active	1973–present
Partner(s)	Gabriele Lavia (1981–2001) Roberto Zaccaria (2001–)
Website	https://www.monicaguerritore.it/home.php

Monica Guerritore (born 5 January 1958) is an Italian film, theatre and television actress.

Biography

Born in Rome to a Neapolitan father and a Calabrian mother,^[1] after her debut at just sixteen years of age under the direction of Giorgio Strehler in The Cherry Orchard^[2] (however, she had her first small part in Vittorio De Sica's Una breve vacanza, at the early age of 13^[2]), she tied herself romantically and artistically to film and theatre director Gabriele Lavia,^[3] acting in his theatrical performances mostly strong female characters like Jocasta, Lady Macbeth and Ophelia.^[4] Miss Julie in Strindberg's drama. The couple separated in 2001, during the rehearsals of Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage in which she played Marianne. Guerritore continued her work with other directors, like Giancarlo Sepe, in Madame Bovary,^[5] Carmen,^[6] and The Lady of the Camellias.^[4][7]

Beside the stage career, she also works on television and film: in 1976 along Marcello Mastroianni in Signore e signori, buonanotte,^[8] in 1977 she plays the title role in first RAI colour TV play Manon Lescaut,^[9][10] also, significant performances were in Salvatore Samperi's Fotografando Patrizia^[11] (1985) and in Mauro Bolognini's La Venexiana (1986).^[12]

She stayed far away from television for 17 years and came back on screen RAI in 1997, with the title role in Costanza,^[13] and in 1999, in Mario Caiano's L'amore oltre la vita.^[14] In 2004 she played Ambra Leonardi in Amanti e segreti, and in 2006 Ada Sereni in Gianluigi Calderone's Exodus.^[15]

Gabriele Lavia directed her in many, often erotically toned, movies, including Scandalosa Gilda (1985), Sensi (1986) and a Sicilian film by Giovanni Verga, La lupa (1996).^{[citation needed]} In 2007 she played a part in Ferzan Özpetek's Un giorno perfetto, and in 2008 in Ivano De Matteo's La bella gente.^[16]

She has performed Saint Monica in Christian Duguay's Sant'Agostino.^[17]

In theatre, she also wrote and directed Giovanna d'Arco^[18] (2004–2006), and Dall'Inferno all'Infinito (2008).

Filmography

Films

Television