Personal Info
Birth date
1941-08-05 (84 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Gemona del Friuli, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy
Also known as
Карла Гравина
Carla Gravina
Biography
Carla Gravina (born 5 August 1941) is an Italian actress and politician. She appeared in 40 films between 1957 and 1993. Born in Gemona, Gravina made her film debut at fifteen years old, in Alberto Lattuada's Guendalina. Very active in films and on television series, both in comedic and dramatic roles, from the late 1970s she gradually focused her activities on stage and in political activism, being a PCI deputy between 1980 and 1983. During her career Gravina won a number of international awards, including the Best Actress Award for her performance in Alessandro Blasetti's Love and Chatter at the 1958 Locarno International Film Festival, the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ettore Scola's La terrazza at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, and the award for Best Actress for Margarethe von Trotta's The Long Silence at the 1993 Montreal World Film Festival.
Filmography
Big Deal on Madonna Street
8.1
Overview:
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.A Bullet for the General
6.6
Overview:
El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware of his true intentions.Tony Arzenta
6.11
Overview:
A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue.The Inheritor
6.318
Overview:
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...Without Apparent Motive
5.903
Overview:
A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.Orient Express
8
Overview:
A six-part French tv series first broadcast in 1979, each episode of Orient Express focuses on a different tale of a journey on the legendary train; each one is set between the outbreak of the First World War and the outbreak of the Second.The Antichrist
6.1
Overview:
An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.Mother's Heart
5.9
Overview:
A mute mother stands by idly as her young children radicalise as a result of a society that thrives on conflict and manipulation. As she is drawn to a group of political activists, her absence allows her children to become increasingly extreme in their behaviour and lethal games they play.First Love
6.3
Overview:
Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leaves with her for several romantic places until the money ends. Ugo will try to get the girl engaged on a local TV station, but Renata falls in love with a manager.Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich
4.5
Overview:
Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemingly neat and respectable married lives. One day, they are summoned to the notary public's office and learn that Anna, one of their peers in high school who got a bad name as a "whore" in the town because of them and was forced to leave is now dead. Furthermore, she had amassed a great fortune abroad and decided to bequeath it to the three. However, she has a strange condition: Claudia, Rita, and Caterina should cheat on their husbands within three days and provide photographic evidence or else the inheritance will be donated to the retirement home.Boomerang
5.737
Overview:
A reformed gangster turns to his old associates for help after his son kills a police officer.Five Branded Women
6
Overview:
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.The Terrace
7.151
Overview:
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss about their past, present and future.Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
7.3
Overview:
Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo has been seeking a promotion and a raise that never comes, and, it seems, will never come. One day, Jerónimo, the son of Don César, meets Celeste, the daughter of Policarpo, and falls in love with her. Policarpo sees in that relationship the solution to his aspirations at work, and does everything in his power to make this relationship fruitful. Don César, who presumes to be a count, sees with very bad eyes that his son meets a girl from such a different social position, and does just the opposite. But the efforts made by both parties will be of no use, since Celeste has fallen in love with Mario Marquetti, a "specialized mechanic" (typist) who is giving private lessons in the offices of the businessman Franquinet .The Lady of Monza
4.7
Overview:
A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan. Based on the life of Marianna De Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," a 17th century nun accused of and tried by the church for breaking celibacy and plotting murder.Alfredo, Alfredo
6.257
Overview:
Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.The Violent Four
6.6
Overview:
A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.A Day for Lionhearts
7
Overview:
September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two meets Gino and all together will try to pass trough the Gothic Line.Hail the Artist
5.5
Overview:
Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life, Nicolas attempts a reconciliation with his ex-wife. But in this, as in his professional life, Nicolas is doomed to disillusionment and failure.Guendalina
6.5
Overview:
Wealthy teenager Guendalina is a child of divorce. Oberdan, likewise a teenager, is a boy from a blue-collar family. Escaping from the tribulations of her home life, Guendalina creates a dream world of her own, casting Oberdan as her personal Prince Charming. Despite parental objections, girl and boy fall in love. Interestingly enough, the relationship between Guendalina and Oberdan remains pure and chaste throughout their film, which is more than can be said for their parents. their respective parents behave with marked laciviousness.Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
9.2
Overview:
A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly became one of the most famous and beloved actresses of Italian and international cinema, told through the words of her unpublished letters and diaries, photographs, homemade films in 8 mm, and new interviews with her relatives, friends, and collaborators.Everybody Go Home!
7.6
Overview:
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.Days of Inspector Ambrosio
6.4
Overview:
A few days before Inspector Ambrosio's holiday, a bank robbery takes place opposite his house.And Now My Love
5.9
Overview:
The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.Acting
2021Alida Valli: In Her Own Words as Self
1998Come quando fuori piove as Anita
1993The Long Silence as Dr. Carla Aldrovandi
1988Days of Inspector Ambrosio as Tullia Bandelli
1986La Locandiera as Mirandolina
1984Mon Ami Washington as Unknown
1982Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich as Unknown
1980The Terrace as Carla
1979Orient Express (1 Episode) as Hélène
1979Nella vita di Sylvia Plath as Sylvia Plath
1978Madame Bovary (6 Episodes) as Emma Bovary
1978Mother and Daughter as Mother
1976Boomerang as Muriel
1974The Antichrist as Ippolita Oderisi
1974And Now My Love as Sarah's Italian Girlfriend
1974Il gioco della verità as Anna Incoronato
1973Hail the Artist as Elisabeth Montei
1973Tony Arzenta as Sandra
1973The Inheritor as Liza Rocquencourt
1972The Pisciotta Case as Gemma
1972Alfredo, Alfredo as Carolina
1971Without Apparent Motive as Jocelyne Rocca
1971Il segno del comando (5 Episodes) as Lucia
1969The Brothers Karamazov (7 Episodes) as Katerina Ivànovna
1969The Invisible Woman as Delfina
1969Sierra Maestra as Carla
1969The Lady of Monza as Caterina da Meda
1969Nero Wolfe (1 Episode) as Helen Frost
1969Mother's Heart as Lorenza Garrone
1968The Violent Four as Anna
1968The Seven Cervi Brothers as Verina, moglie di Aldo Cervi
1967Caravaggio as Tullia
1967A Bullet for the General as Rosario
1965Anche l'inferno trema as Unknown
1961A Day for Lionhearts as Mariuccia
1961Scano Boa as Clara
1960Everybody Go Home! as Silvia Modena
1960Five Branded Women as Mira
1959Esterina as Esterina
1959Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura as Celeste
1959First Love as Betty
1958Big Deal on Madonna Street as Nicoletta
1958Love and Chatter as Maria Furlani
1957Guendalina as Amica di Guendalina (uncredited)