Video: Russian roots, Moscow registration and 7 more little-known facts about the Italian movie star Ornella Muti
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Ornella Muti is one of the most famous Italian actresses in the world. Probably, among our viewers, she will find even more fans than in her homeland - the films in which she played in a duet with Adriano Celentano were incredibly popular in the USSR. However, most viewers are hardly aware that the star of Italian cinema has Russian roots, that in recent years she has lived in Moscow and even thinks about obtaining Russian citizenship, and that for many years she has kept a secret related to Celentano.
Francesca Romana Rivelli was born in 1955 in Rome, but her maternal grandparents lived in St. Petersburg, after the 1917 revolution they moved to Estonia, where her mother was born, and then the family emigrated to Italy. Ornella Muti told: "".
Francesca has a twin sister, Claudia. When they were 10 years old, their father died, and he and his mother could hardly make ends meet. From the age of 13, Francesca began to earn money secretly from her mother - even then she was incredibly good-looking and looked much older than her years, and the girl began to pose nude at an art school. Then she began to participate in photo shoots for men's magazines, convincing everyone that she was an adult. When these photos caught the eye of her teachers and mother, a huge scandal erupted. They wanted to expel her from school, but, taking into account the plight of the family, they gave her a second chance.
Francesca's sister Claudia dreamed of acting in films, and one day she went to the casting for the film "The Most Beautiful Wife", persuading her sister to go with her for company. As a result, Claudia did not pass the casting, but director Damiano Damiani drew attention to Francesca, who, as a result, was entrusted with the main role. It was he who came up with the pseudonym Ornella Muti for her, since there was already a star in Italian cinema by the name of Rivelli. So at the age of 14, Ornella Muti's film career began.
Widespread fame came to her after filming the film "The Last Woman", where she starred with Gerard Depardieu. After that, her film career took off. Her partners on the set were stars of the first magnitude: Alain Delon, Timati Dalton, Sylvester Stallone. In 1979 Ornella Muti also starred in Soviet cinema - then she first visited the USSR on the set of Grigory Chukhrai's film Life is Beautiful. Most of all, she was then struck by the fact that “translators” were assigned to her, who controlled her every step, and that the products and cigarettes to which she was accustomed could only be found in the “Beryozka” store, where the way was closed for ordinary Soviet people.
The most striking and memorable was her duet with Adriano Celentano in The Taming of the Shrew, which became the highest-grossing film in the history of Italian cinema. During the filming, the actors began an affair, which is why Ornella Muti left her first husband Alessio Orano. But Celentano did not dare to leave the family, and Claudia Mori remains his wife to this day. For many years, the actors hid this fact, and only recently Celentano decided to make a confession. He did not inform Ornell Muti about this, and she was very indignant with this decision: "".
The second husband of the actress was the producer Federico Facchinetti, but this marriage did not last long either - after the actress found out that he was losing huge sums in the casino and wrote false checks in her name, she left him. In 1998, Ornella Muti married for the third time - to the plastic surgeon Stefano Picollo - and lived with him for 10 years.
Ornella Muti has three children. She never called the father's name of her first daughter Nike - she was then only 18 years old, and he left her as soon as he found out about her pregnancy. Married to Federico Facchinetti, the actress gave birth to a son, Andrea, and a daughter, Carolina. The relationship with the eldest daughter was not easy - just like her mother, she began to appear nude for men's magazines early and gave birth to a son early. Mother tried to warn her against the mistakes that she once made herself, but Nike did not listen to her, which is why they did not even communicate for about a year. Now Ornella Muti is already three times a grandmother, her daughter Carolina had a son and a daughter.
Nowadays, the actress is credited with an affair with businessman Fabrice Kererve, who has recently been working in Russia. They say that it is for this reason that the Italian actress decided to move to Moscow and even bought an apartment here. She recently stated: "".
Thanks to the help of Kererve, Ornella Muti started her own jewelry business and launched a collection of jewelry. In addition, in the fall of 2018, the actress played the role of the Russian Empress Anna Ioannovna in the ballet with elements of the opera Crystal Palace.
This film became her hallmark, although Soviet viewers did not see everything: What footage was cut out by censorship from "The Taming of the Shrew".
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