Gabriella Mariani first made herself talk about herself in the late 90s, when the drama “Countess de Monsoro” was released by Vladimir Popkov. The actress impressed everyone with her femininity and almost perfect features. But it was almost the only truly famous project in the work of Gabriella. What happened to her fate in the future?
early years
Gabriella was born in the Moldavian SSR, in a small town. Not everything turned out well in the girl’s life in the early stages: her father left the family and practically did not help, the mother, who wanted to make Gabriella a “man,” loaded the girl with study and additional classes in a music school.
Surprisingly, Gabriella Mariani, whose growth was already quite high during her teenage years, considered herself a real ugly duckling at school. The actress admits that she wore shapeless clothes and glasses, was too thin and did not know how to comb her chic hair beautifully.
When the girl was about to enter the theater, her mother took this news with a degree of skepticism. But Gabriella took courage and left for Moscow. After some time, she became a student at the Shchukin school.
The first work in the cinema
In 1990, Gabriella Mariani began her on-screen career. The films "Living Target" and "Womanizer-2" were the first works that supplemented the filmography of the girl. The time was not easy, so it’s worthwhile to keep silent about the artistic value of films. In Live Target, the actress played a cameo role as a nurse, and director Ivan Schegolev entrusted Gabriella with the role of a translator named Victoria in her film Babnik-2.
Mariani always had an outstanding appearance, so it’s easy to guess what roles she was usually assigned to: beauties, girls of easy virtue, etc. In 1993, the director
Alexander Kosarev began shooting the detective "The Hostages of the Devil", in which he invited a pretty decent cast: Natalya Gundareva, Peter Velyaminov, Mikhail Gluzsky, Alexander Pankratov-Cherny. Gabriella played in this project a girl with the mysterious name Evnika.
Then there were two other insignificant films: “Letters to a Past Life” and “The Funeral of Rats”. And in 1997, the girl first got the main role.
Gabriella Mariani: filmography. Countess de Monsoro
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the famous actor Sergei Zhigunov created his own production company and began filming historical films. Zhigunov is a big fan of the works of Dumas, so the first film adaptation was made based on his work “Queen Margot”. Half of the cast of this project migrated to Zhigunov's new film, Countess de Monsoro.
At the center of the touching narrative of the film “Countess de Monsoro” is the story of two young people in love, which unfolds against a background of palace and political intrigue. The performer of the main male role was known in advance - Alexander Domogarov became him. But for a long time they could not find a screen girlfriend for him.
Gabriella Mariani came to the casting of the project by accident. It took place in a nearby pavilion for a role in another film. But assistant director Vladimir Popkov noticed the girl and immediately took to the casting of the historical series, which was produced by Zhigunov.
True, for some reason, they decided to give the voice of the heroine to Mariani to another girl with a higher timbre of voice. And, I must say, the invited actress did not do very well with this task: if Gabriella did not have an exceptional appearance, the image of the main character could be considered a failure.
Recent work of the actress
Gabriella Mariani never made a stunning career. "Countess de Monsoro" - the only more or less noticeable project with the participation of the actress.
In 2003, a soap opera called Ondine was launched on the Russia-1 television channel. In this project, Mariani got the role of the bitchy wife of a wealthy businessman. Together with her son Elizaveta Gladyeva, she kept plotting against the main character performed by Yulia Pozhidaeva.
In 2004, the shooting of the second season of the series began, and Gabriella again returned to the set of "Undiny."
In 2006, the project "Alias" Albanian "was very popular with the participation of Alexander Dedyushko and Svetlana Khodchenkova. In this story, Mariani was assigned the role of a certain Maria Sanchez.
The actress also played the main role in the series “Three of Tango”. This tape was shot together with the Argentinean television channel Telefe. Mariani played the role of the wife of a prominent Russian scientist in the series, who went to work in Argentina and went missing. Not believing in his death, the heroine Mariani flies to an unfamiliar country to find her husband there.
Also, the artist can be seen in such films as “Search for evidence”, “Mistress of the taiga” and “Mistress of the big city”.
Personal life
In 1999, Gabriella Mariani married the director, as is usually the case with beautiful actresses. A few years later the couple had a son, who was named Alexander.