They say that nature often rests on the offspring of talented parents. However, fortunately, there are exceptions to this rule. One of them is the beautiful and incredibly talented actress Chiara Mastroianni.
Chiara's father and mother dating story
The parents of this charming Italian-French actress are two legends of world cinema - Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve.
These actors met while working on the movie "This only happens to others." By then, both were already recognized stars. However, the joint work somehow did not stick together, so the project director decided to help Catherine and Marcello get to know each other better. To do this, he locked them for a day in an empty trailer. The time spent together made the actors look at each other in a different way, and soon an affair began between them.
It was rumored that for the sake of the blonde Frenchwoman, Mastroianni was even planning to move to Paris, to give up all business and family in Italy. However, Deneuve did not believe in the institution of marriage and rejected all the proposals of her lover. Even having become pregnant, she did not change her decision, and soon Catherine and Marcello broke up.
Chiara Mastroianni: a biography of the early years
On a hot May day in 1972 in Paris, Deneuve gave birth to a daughter, whom she planned to call Charlotte.
However, when he first saw the baby, Papa was struck by her fair skin and gave her the name Chiara, which means “light” from Italian. Among other things, Marcello insisted that his daughter be named Mastroianni. It is interesting that the girl subsequently did not change her father's surname, although she got married twice.
Despite the fact that the girl’s parents divorced and lived not just in different cities, but also in countries, they both took care of Chiara. Later she said that although she saw her father and mother together only on the movie screen, she never felt that she was living in an inferior family - because she had loving, caring parents.
Relationship with mother
Catherine Deneuve has always been distinguished by rational thinking and in most cases could control her feelings. That is why others had the impression that she was cool about her children.
When the daughter was born, the actress already had a nine-year-old son Christian. Due to the constant employment on the set, Catherine was often on the road, but she always tried to keep in touch with her daughter. So, wherever Deneuve was, she always found the opportunity to call home to wish Chiara good night.
Knowing the difficulties of the acting profession, the prima donna of French cinema did not want her baby to follow in her mother's footsteps. She considered the profession of an actress not a reliable income. However, Deneuve, not knowing it herself, incited the passion of her young daughter to the world of cinema and theater. So Chiara Mastroianni from childhood helped her mother learn roles by reading cues for other characters. In addition, she was often present on the set of many paintings in which her mother starred.
When the girl grew up, Catherine Deneuve convinced her to become an archaeologist. At the insistence of her mother, she entered the University of Sorbonne. But secretly from her, Chiara participated in various castings, however, she could not get a serious role.
Relationship with father
In addition to Chiara, the great Italian actor had many children, but the baby was his favorite. Marcello himself explained this by the fact that Catherine Deneuve loved very much, and when their paths diverged, he transferred all his passion to a beautiful daughter.
The mother did not forbid the baby to go to her father in Rome, which Chiara often used. Marcello not only madly pampered his beauty, but also arranged a holiday for her every arrival. Thanks to her father, the girl from childhood joined the Italian culture. Moreover, along with dad, young Chiara Mastroianni (photo below) often starred in various photo shoots, and also attended famous film festivals, premieres and other important events, where the eminent Italian actor was invited.
Thanks to her father, Chiara felt like a real princess of
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Upon learning that the daughter decided to become an actress, despite all the exhortations of her mother, Deneuve resigned herself to her choice. Moreover, she helped her daughter get her first serious role in the film "My Favorite Season", in which she herself starred.
In turn, the father also helped his favorite - he made sure that Chiara Mastroianni played with him in the Italian film "High Fashion".
Thanks to her parents, the aspiring actress received several more minor roles, however, she dreamed of more.
First successes
To prove that she is truly a talented actress, and not mediocre, who got the role thanks to the connections of her parents, Chiara starred in a somewhat unusual way for herself in the film “Don't Forget that You Will Die soon”, dedicated to the theme of AIDS patients.
Later, after playing several more difficult roles, the actress decided on her role - she began to deliberately refuse romantic heroines, choosing complex characters, with a difficult fate. In addition, in order to once and for all get rid of the glory of the actress, who received the role of “pulling”, Chiara Mastroianni begins to deliberately abandon large-budget international projects. She selects films of novice talented directors.
Chiara Achievements
Thanks to her difficult position, which many initially considered youthful maximalism of the spoiled “princess”, she was able to achieve recognition in European cinema Chiara Mastroianni.
Films with her participation, meanwhile, were real masterpieces, but not all, of course. However, the ability to play absolutely any heroines helped Chiara to achieve recognition of the best directors in Italy and France.
Being more like a father than a mother, the girl did not become a hostage to the doll appearance, as Catherine Deneuve once did. On the contrary, she proved that she could transform into anyone. Among her heroines there are secular lionesses, prostitutes, drug addicts, journalists, victims of maniacs and simply unfortunate women. Chiara is not afraid to speak the unpleasant truth about life through the mouths of her heroines.
Among the best films with the actress - “Do not forget that you will die soon”, “The Diary of a Seducer”, “For Sale”, “Letter”, “Slaughter”, “All songs are only about love”, “A man in the bathroom”, “ X-hour "and others.
Despite the fact that there are no serious cinematic awards in the piggy bank of the actress, she was nominated for Cesar and the French national prize Lumiere. In addition, Mademoiselle Mastroianni is often invited to be a jury member at various European film festivals and competitions.
Career in recent years
Despite the fact that outside of Europe, the actress is not particularly known, she is popular in her homeland. Moreover, Chiara Mastroianni is one of those French actors, without whom not a single serious project in the country can do. By the way, it is precisely because of this that they often happen to play with their mother (Beloved, Once Upon a Time in Versailles, and others).
One of their most successful collaborations in recent years is the movie “3 Hearts”. Chiara Mastroianni plays a romantic woman in her, who learns that her husband was once passionate about her sister. Catherine Deneuve got the role of an attentive and judicious mother of sisters who are in love with one man.
In 2016, two films were released with the participation of this actress: Saint Amour: The Pleasures of Love and Good Luck Algeria. Every year, Chiara is removed in 2-3 films. It is noteworthy that recently, directors are increasingly seeing in her romantic heroines, the play of which she tried to avoid for many years. Probably, now she will have to change her role.
Chiara Mastroianni: personal life and children
When the girl was only eighteen, she first got married. Her chosen one was the famous sculptor Pierre Torreton. In this marriage, the actress had a son, Milo. Unfortunately, when the boy was 2 years old, his parents divorced.
On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Mademoiselle Mastroianni ventured a second time to go down the aisle with musician Benjamin Bioli. From him, Chiara gave birth to a daughter, Anna. Unfortunately, this marriage lasted only 5 years, after which the couple broke up.
Now the actress is free, although the press ascribes to her various novels with celebrities. About her personal life, only the fact that Chiara Mastroianni lives with her children in Paris is reliably known. Despite being busy, she spends all her free time with her kids, so she tries to pick up projects that are being shot close to home so as not to part with Milo and Anna for a long time.
Although in some interviews, the actress says that she reconciled to the fate of a single mother and is quite happy, the public still hopes that in the future Chiara will still meet a worthy man. In the meantime, the actress happens to play a happy lover only in the movies.