Italian movie star Ornella Muti (Francesca Romana Rivelli) was born in Rome on March 9, 1955. Her father, a journalist by profession, was from Naples, and her mother, a sculptor, arrived in Italy from the Estonian city of Tartu in the late forties in the hope of finding herself in the visual arts. Ornella grew up as a gifted child, memorized poetry, danced, and even invented roles for herself, which she then played to the applause of her parents. When the girl was 10 years old, misfortune happened in the family - under unclear circumstances, her father died.
Movie debut
Artistic Ornella Muti, whose biography describes the main periods of her life, began acting in 15 years. The girl made her debut in the film Damiano Damian "The Most Beautiful Wife." This event was preceded by an interesting story. Ornella's elder sister, Claudia, decided to take part in the casting for the main role in the film and took Ornella with her, although she did not want to go, believing that she simply had nothing to do there. However, the experienced Damiane immediately noticed a long-haired young beauty. Ornella Muti, whose height and weight were in perfect proportion, did not have time to come to her senses as she was made up and photographed. The girl suddenly became a film actress. The director tormented her during the filming, because the newly-minted movie star had neither education nor experience. But external data helped her to cope with the task. Ornella Muti, whose biography dates back to the meeting with the director Damiane, soon ascended to the Olympus of cinema.
First marriage
Next to her on the set was a young actor Alessio Orano, the idol of hundreds of Italian girls, a handsome and stylish man. The joint work brought Ornella and Alessio closer, but their relationship was rather friendly, since the age of the beginning actress did not allow them to meet outside the film studio. Nevertheless, the mutual feelings that arose between young Ornella and young Alessio did not cool down over the next five years, and when the girl was twenty, lover Orano made her an offer. So in Italy the most beautiful married couple appeared. However, the happiness of the young couple did not last long, only 6 years. In the art world, marriage is short-lived, and divorce is considered commonplace.
The beginning of the way
The film Damiano Damiane opened the way for a girl in a big cinema. The invitations followed one after another. Ornella Muti, whose biography was replenished with new pages, accepted all the scenarios, cinema became the meaning of life for her, and it no longer mattered in which genre the picture was shot. In 1972, Ornella starred in three films at once: "An ideal place for comfort", "The sun on your skin" and "Fiorina". Stage directors appreciated the young actress for her willingness to get naked on demand. There were no internal prohibitions for Ornella; she was relaxed and carefree.
Woman child
One of the most prominent films with her participation was "People's Romance", which reveals the difficult ups and downs of the relationship of a married couple. Another tape of a psychological nature called "Passionate" revealed the dramatic ability of the actress. Ornella's partners in these paintings were Michele Placido, Eleanor Georgie and Hugo Tanyatsi. After the film "Folk Romance" was in wide distribution, Muti began to be called "woman-child", "donna bambino." Films with Ornella Muti evoked mixed feelings among the audience. The actress’s childhood innocence was organically combined with her sexuality, and no conflict of these two aspects was observed. But part of the audience did not understand how to be both a sophisticated woman and an innocent child. This topic was even discussed on newspaper pages, but without much success.
Marco Ferreri
The nineteen-year-old beauty Ornella Muti (her biography, despite her youth, already contained a number of pages) soon became one of the most prominent representatives of the Italian elite. As usual in such cases, the newspaper pages were full of notes about the personal life of the actress, about her romance with directors, actors and even make-up artists. And when Ornella Muti received an invitation to the main role in the film "The Last Woman" from the famous director Marco Ferreri, and without any trial, evil tongues instantly laid the director and actress in bed. Although it was in this case, Italian film admirers were not far from the truth - a romance between Marco and Ornella occurred, albeit somewhat later.
Delon and Dalton
And while the young actress was just glad to be able to play a serious dramatic role, she was already tired of the comedic role. The film "The Last Woman" was a resounding success, won many movie prizes, and Ornella stood on one step with Italian cinema superstars such as Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida. With comedic roles was over, henceforth Ornella played in films of elite, highly artistic. In addition, the actress has already begun to go beyond Italian cinema. In 1977, she starred with Alain Delon in the film "Death of a Wretch," in which she played the lover of the deputy Philip Dubay, one of the main characters. Then followed the role in the film by Gregory Chukhrai "Life is Beautiful." Participation in the American blockbuster Flash Gordon with Timati Dalton made her famous around the world. Ornella Muti, whose filmography currently contains more than one hundred films, quickly became popular.
Celentano
In 1980, the young actress received an invitation to the role of Lisa Silvestri, a wealthy and somewhat spoiled girl. The film's partner was Adriano Celentano. According to the script of the picture, Lisa falls in love with the peasant farmer Elia, and in the end their difficult relationship ends in a wedding. But it so happened that Lisa-Ornella did not wait for the development of the plot. She fell in love with Adriano, just like a woman falling in love with a man. The feeling was mutual, but subsequently Celentano found it necessary to publicly apologize to Claudia Mori, his wife, for his passion for Ornella. The actress did not like this, she concluded that Adriano Celentano is an ordinary henpecked, and their romance stopped.
An affair with Marco Ferreri
It was at this time that the director Marco Ferreri again appeared in the field of vision of Ornella Muti, who this time did not offer roles, but interested her as a man. Ornella at that time participated in the film "The Girl from Trieste" directed by Pasquale Campanile, where there were many nude scenes. Marco came to the set and watched the production. Ornella was not shy about him, maybe she was even flattered by the attention of the famous director. They began an affair, which smoothly turned into a joint work on the film “The Story of Ordinary Madness” with a tragic end for the heroine, prostitute Cass, whose image Brilliantly embodied Muti. And in his next film, The History of Pierre, the director fell in love with the German actress Hannah Schigull. On this his romance with Ornella ended.
Second marriage
The break with Marco Ferreri did not upset the actress, she just at that time reached a peak of success, the film career steeply went up. World-famous directors invited Ornella to the main roles, fans filled up with gifts. Among the total mass of respirators, a certain Federico Faccinetti stood out, a young man generous with gifts and compliments. He conquered the actress by presenting every day a present to any part of her body, and on Sundays she received an expensive present “For all Ornella”. Muti began dating Federico, and after a while they got married. The couple had two children - son Andrea and daughter Carolina. The husband was not particularly engaged in family affairs, but he immediately took control of all his wife's current affairs, declaring himself her impresario, although Ornella, in principle, did not need such custody. Federico set a condition: he decides all the issues on his wife’s contracts - in which film to act in her, what fee to request, on what conditions everything should happen.
Divorce
Ornella Muti's husband turned out to be a womanizer, he did not miss a single skirt. Ornella, perhaps, would have closed her eyes to his adventures if her faithful did not tell all her lovers how his wife, the famous movie star Muti, was uninteresting in bed, boring in conversation and monotonous in her entertainments. Once in the newspaper there was an interview with another sex partner Federico, in which she talked about the details of his family life from his own words. This fact was ignored by Ornella, but when it turned out that her husband was engaged in dubious matters, doing some fraud with her money, the actress filed for divorce. She paid all the debts of her husband and got rid of him. And a year later, the crook was sent to prison for new combinations with other people's money.
Ornella Muti today
Currently, Ornella Muti, whose age is approaching sixty years, is rarely removed. Her life is focused on children and grandchildren. The movie star finds comfort and peace in her family, and infrequent novels with interesting men add to her a feeling of indescribable happiness, without which not a single woman lives. Ornella Muti in her youth was beautiful, talented and successful. All these qualities are with her today.