Marina Berti

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Marina Berti
Marina Berti in 1951
Born	Elena Maureen Bertolino (1924-09-29)29 September 1924 London, England
Died	29 October 2002(2002-10-29) (aged 78)[1] Rome, Italy
Resting place	Cimitero Flaminio, Rome
Nationality	Italian
Years active	1941–2002
Spouse(s)	Claudio Gora ​ ​ (m. 1944; died 1998)​
Children	5, including Andrea and Marina Giordana

Elena Maureen Bertolino, known as Marina Berti, (29 September 1924 – 29 October 2002) was an Italian film actress. She was born in London from an Italian father and an English mother.^[2]

Biography[]

Her first screen appearance was in the Anna Magnani film, La Fuggitiva in 1941. She appeared mainly in small roles and in the occasional leading role in nearly 100 films both Italian and American. Her appearances include Quo Vadis (1951), Abdulla the Great (1955), Ben Hur (1959), Cleopatra (1963), If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974), Last Stop on the Night Train (1975), and the TV miniseries' Moses the Lawgiver (1975) and Jesus of Nazareth (1977). Her last film appearance was in the Costa-Gavras film Amen. in 2002.^{[citation needed]}

She was married to the Italian actor Claudio Gora from 1944 until his death in 1998. She was the mother of actor Andrea Giordana and actress Marina Giordana.^{[citation needed]}

Berti died in 2002 in a Rome hospital after a long illness.^{[citation needed]}

Selected filmography[]

Screenshot of Marina Berti & Leo Genn from the trailer for the film Quo Vadis

Cinema[]

Television[]

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