Ornella Muti

Ornella Muti

Born 1955-03-09 (age 71) Roma, Lazio, Italy
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Biography

Ornella Muti (born March 9, 1955) is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan father and Estonian mother. She has an older sister, Claudia (1951).

Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in La moglie più bella (aka The Most Beautiful Wife).

She has primarily worked in Italian films but she made her British film debut as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon in 1980. American movies she appeared in include Oscar (1991) and Once Upon a Crime (1992). She is mostly known to the French for appearing in a TV commercial of Giovanni Panzani pasta.

Muti has been married twice, to Alessio Orano (her fellow actor in the film "The Most Beautiful Wife", 1975–1981), and Federico Facchinetti (1988–1996).

Muti has three children: Naike Rivelli (b. 1974), who is also a model and actress having a close resemblance to her mother, and whose father is Spanish film producer José Luis Bermúdez de Castro Acaso; a son, Andrea, and a second daughter, Carolina, both from her marriage to Facchinetti.

Since 1998, Muti has been living with Stefano Piccolo, a plastic surgeon.

Muti was voted "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" in 1994 by a worldwide poll of readers of the magazine Class.

In 2008, Ornella Muti introduced her own line of jewellery. She opened new shops in Paris, Milan, Rome, Riga, Moscow and Almaty. She insured her breasts for $350,000.

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Known For

The Unscarred
The Unscarred

2000

as Rafaella

Appassionata
Appassionata

1974

as Eugenia Rutelli

Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon

1980

as Princess Aura

Oscar
Oscar

1991

as Sofia Provolone

The Sparrow's Fluttering
The Taming of the Scoundrel
The Taming of the Scoundrel

1980

as Lisa Silvestri

A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper
To Rome with Love
To Rome with Love

2012

as Pia Fusari

Once Upon a Crime
Once Upon a Crime

1992

as Elena Morosco

Casanova
Casanova

1987

as Henriette

Tales of Ordinary Madness
Esther
Esther

1999

as Königin Waschti

The Last Woman
The Last Woman

1976

as Valérie

Jet Set
Jet Set

2000

as Camilla Balbeck

Famous T & A
Famous T & A

1982

as Lisa (archive footage)

Love & Money
Love & Money

1981

as Catherine Stockheinz

Fiorina the Cow
Fiorina the Cow

1972

as Teresa - daughter of Betta

'o Re
'o Re

1989

as Maria Sophie of Bavaria

Leonor
Leonor

1975

as Catherine

Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1
Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1

2011

as Self (archive footage)