Personal Info
Birth date
1955-03-09 (70 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Roma, Lazio, Italy
Also known as
Francesca Romana Rivelli
Орнелла Мути
اورنلا موتی
Ornella Muti
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ornella Muti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.459
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.Sanremo Music Festival
7.8
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The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.Wetten, dass..?
5.3
Overview:
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.Bambi-Verleihung
9
Overview:
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.Die Harald Schmidt Show
7
Overview:
The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.The Count of Monte Cristo
7.228
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A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for 18 years. He escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and revenge against his nemesis, Mondego.Zone interdite
5
Overview:
The zone interdite refers to two distinct territories established in German-occupied France during the Second World War after the signature of the Second Armistice at Compiègne.Ciao Darwin
7.731
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Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.Sirens
6.382
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Sirens of the Mediterranean sea look for the lost last Triton in the city of Naples.Flash Gordon
6.236
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A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.The Taming of the Scoundrel
7.1
Overview:
A rich farmer is well known for being very unkind. He's misanthropic, misogynous and cantankerous. Until he meets by chance a gorgeous girl...Appassionata
5.704
Overview:
Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife.The House of Doves
4.9
Overview:
The widow Alexandra and her schoolgirl daughter Sandra live together in a luxurious villa in Spain. When Fernando, an old love of Alexandra's, appears in town the two rekindle their love affair until Alexandra finds that he is being paid to be the companion of a rich older womanCome Home and Meet My Wife
7.333
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50 year old Giulio and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina, fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks in on his friend and Vincenzina upon a return from a trip. His jealousy and anger get the best of him and he kicks his wife out of the house. Years pass and Giulio decides to rekindle the love affair with Vincenzina.Oscar
6.3
Overview:
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise.Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1
7
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The naked floodgates burst open in the Saucy 70s and the 80s continued the trend. Welcome to the 80s, Jerry Falwell, Reagan conservatism, VCRs, pay tv, big hair and AIDS. Drive-ins and grindhouses were replaced by multiplex theaters, but the VCR and Pay TV came to the rescue with a flood of direct to video sexy features. Remember trying to watch scrambled Pay TV looking for some skin?To Rome with Love
5.783
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Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple have separate romantic interludes; a spotlight shines on an ordinary man.Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 2
7
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The Saucy 70's were an extraordinary period in cinema, sex and nudity in mainstream films exploded and new subgenres of films emerged. Nunsploitation, blaxploitation, grindhouse, woman-in-prison, European giallos and sex comedies, and of course, the ever-popular 'young woman's erotic journey' films that were so prevalent, took nudity in cinema to greater heights.Once Upon a Crime
5.765
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On their way to Monte Carlo, Monaco, Marilyn and her husband, Neil, meet several other married couples, including Julian and Phoebe, who are traveling with a lost dog they plan to return to its wealthy owner for a large reward. But, when the dog's mistress is murdered, the travelers become the prime suspects, and Inspector Bonnard is determined to track them all down.Summer Affair
5.5
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A very young Ornella Muti plays a rich girl who falls for an older hippie boy. Her parents don't approve and try to stop her from seeing him so they run away to a villa (Her parents') by the sea. Later they are shipwrecked on a deserted island. The plot focuses on the efforts of the police to figure out where the girl is, which is set against the developing relationship between the two young people.Acting
TBARoma elastica as Unknown
2023The Undecided Groom as Barbara
2022Il était une fois Champs-Élysées (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)
2022The Christmas Show as Grandma Rita
2022Sanremo 72. Il Festival da dove non l’avete mai visto as Self
2022La voglia matta di vivere as Self
2021Ti vogliamo bene Francesco Nuti as Unknown
2020Quiz ohne Grenzen (1 Episode) as Self
2018Magical Nights as Federica, the diva
2018Mare di grano as Unknown
2018Wine to Love as Anna
2017Sirens (12 Episodes) as Ingrid
2017Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary as Self
2015Wer weiß denn sowas? (1 Episode) as Self
2012To Rome with Love as Pia Fusari
2011Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1 as Self (archive footage)
2010Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano as Self
2010Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore as Self
2010Deutschland gegen… – Das Duell (1 Episode) as Self
2010Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 2 as (archive footage)
2009Doc West II : Triggerman as Debra 'Tricky' Downing
2008Io non ci casco as Professoressa Lamberti
2008Postcards from Rome as Ornella
2008Il sangue e la rosa as Barbara Forleis
2008Il sangue e la rosa (4 Episodes) as Baronessa Barbara Forleis
2007Civico zero as Nina
2007The Final Inquiry as Maria Maddalena
2007L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII (2 Episodes) as Maria Maddalena
2006Yo-Rhad - Un amico dallo spazio as Marianna (voice)
2006French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever as Graziella Lespinasse
2006Semperopernball (1 Episode) as Self
2005A Life in Suitcases as Mathilde Figura
2005La bambina dalle mani sporche as Wanda Rossi
2004The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things as Grandmother
2004The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish as Mathilde Figura
2004Kulturplatz (1 Episode) as Self
2004People - Jet set 2 as Aphrodita
2004The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea as Mathilde Figura
2004Say I Do as Francesca, la dircetora
2003The Lion as Sybil Bullit
2003The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story as Mathilde Figura
2003On the Run as Cécile Costes
2003After Life as Cécile Rivet
2002An Amazing Couple as Cécile Costes
2002Lo zio d'America (12 Episodes) as Maria Monticelli
2001Hotel as Flamenco Spokesperson
2001Last Run as Danny
2001Favorite Son as Claudia Maccari
2001A Long Long Long Night of Love as Egle
2001Tomorrow as Stefania Zerenghi
2000Un Colpo al Cuore as Giulia Pascoli
2000Jet Set as Camilla Balbeck
2000The Unscarred as Rafaella
2000Tierra del fuego as Armenia
1999Esther as Königin Waschti
1999Dirty Linen as Bruna
1998Ciao Darwin (1 Episode) as Presidente di giuria
1998The Count of Monte Cristo (4 Episodes) as Mercédès Herrera
1998L'Inconnu de Strasbourg as Madeleine Wals
1998Somewhere in the City as Marta
1998Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show (1 Episode) as Self
1998Widows as Maria Sommer
1997L'avvocato Porta (8 Episodes) as Chiara
1997Mordbüro as Madame Behar
1997Just for Laughs as Maître Alice Obini
1996Stella's Favor as Stella
1995Love Deal as Tatiana
1995Die Harald Schmidt Show (1 Episode) as Self
1995Il Grande Fausto as Giulia Occhini
1993The Bilingual Lover as Norma
1993Zone interdite (1 Episode) as Self
1992Non chiamarmi Omar as Viola
1992Once Upon a Crime as Elena Morosco
1991Christmas Vacation '91 as Giuliana
1991Especially on Sunday as Anna
1991Il Conte Max as Isabella Matignon
1991Oscar as Sofia Provolone
1990Tonight at Alice's as Alice
1990A Season of Giants as Onoria
1990The Voyage of Captain Fracassa as Serafina
1989Wait Until Spring, Bandini as Maria
1989'o Re as Maria Sophie of Bavaria
1988Codice privato as Anna
1988The Sparrow's Fluttering as Silvana
1987My Sister and I as Silvia
1987Sacrée soirée (3 Episodes) as Self
1987Chronicle of a Death Foretold as Angela Vicario
1987live - die ZDF-talkshow (1 Episode) as Self
1987Casanova as Henriette
1986Stregati as Anna
1986Department Store as Se stessa / Luisa, commessa del reparto abbigliamento per bambini
1985Blame it on Paradise as Celeste
1984The Future Is Woman as Malvina
1984Swann in Love as Odette de Crécy
1983Rich and Poor as Marta
1983Bonnie and Clyde Italian Style as Rosetta Foschini
1982The Girl from Trieste as Nicole
1982Champs-Elysées (1 Episode) as Self
1982Famous T & A as Lisa (archive footage)
1981Madly in Love as Principessa Cristina
1981Nobody's Perfect as Chantal
1981Tales of Ordinary Madness as Cass
1981Love and Money as Catherine Stockheinz
1981Wetten, dass..? (1 Episode) as Self
1980The Taming of the Scoundrel as Lisa Silvestri
1980Flash Gordon as Princess Aura
1979Life Is Beautiful as Maria
1979Atrocious Tales of Love and Death as Lucia Navarro
1978First Love as Renata
1978Break Up as Ussena / Sena
1978Nest of Vipers as Elena Mazzarini
1977The New Monsters as l'autostoppista/la hostess
1977Death of a Corrupt Man as Valérie Agostinelli
1977The Bishop's Bedroom as Matilde
1977Without Words as Unknown
1976The Last Woman as Valérie
1976Pure as a Lily as Lucia Mantuso
1975La joven casada as Camino
1975Leonor as Catherine
1975Numéro un (2 Episodes) as Self
1975Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (2 Episodes) as Self
1974Come Home and Meet My Wife as Vincenzina Rotunno Blasetti
1974Spécial cinéma (3 Episodes) as Self
1974Appassionata as Eugenia Rutelli
1974Forbidden Passion as Maribel
1974Una chica y un señor as Caridad
1973The Sensual Man as Giovanna
1973All Sons of the Saintest Mother as Santazza
1973The Nun and the Devil as Isabella
1972Experiencia prematrimonial as Sandra
1972Fiorina the Cow as Teresa - daughter of Betta
1972The House of Doves as Sandra
1971Oasis of Fear as Ingrid Sjoman
1971Summer Affair as Lisa
1970The Most Beautiful Wife as Francesca Cimarosa
1970Rischiatutto (1 Episode) as Unknown
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1 Episode) as Self
1951Sanremo Music Festival (1 Episode) as Self - Co-host
1948Bambi-Verleihung (2 Episodes) as Self