Actor

Pina Menichelli

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Movies: 19Series: 0

TMDB ID: 1189846

IMDb ID: nm0579618

Known for: Acting

Born: January 11, 1890

Died: August 29, 1984

Age: 94

Place of birth: Castroreale, Sicily, Italy

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1913 - 1999

Years active: 87

Average TMDB rating: 7.16

Wikidata: Q276330

Also known as

Giuseppa Iolanda Menichelli

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Biography

Giuseppa Iolanda Menichelli (10 January 1890 – 29 August 1984), known professionally as Pina Menichelli, was an Italian actress. After a career in theatre and a series of small film roles, Menichelli was launched as a film star when Giovanni Pastrone gave her the lead role in The Fire (1916). Over the next nine years, Menichelli made a series of films, often trading on her image as a diva and on her passionate, decadent eroticism. Menichelli became a global star, and one of the most appreciated actresses in Italian cinema, before her retirement in 1924, aged 34. Since her death, restorations of Menichelli's surviving films have been shown at important film festivals, and her filmography has been re-assembled and re-evaluated by film historians.

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