Actress Gina Lollobrigida dead
Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida has died. This is reported by the ANSA news agency. Lollobrigida was 95 years old.
Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida has died at the age of 95. She became known to international audiences in the 1950s.
Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida has died at the age of 95. She became known to international audiences in the 1950s.
As the Italian news agency Ansa reports, Gina Lollobrigida is dead. She died at the age of 95. The actress started her career in the 1940s, after the Second World War she also made an international name for herself. The exact circumstances of her death are not known at this time.
In autumn 2022, Lollobrigida broke her femur in a fall and had to have an operation. At the time, it was said that she was doing well given the circumstances.
“Most Beautiful Woman in the World”
Lollobrigida war neben Sophia Loren oder Claudia Cardinale eine der bekanntesten Schauspielerinnen Italiens und wurde als “schönste Frau der Welt” bezeichnet. Sie drehte an der Seite großer Hollywoodstars, wie Humphrey Bogart, Marcello Mastroianni, Sean Connery, Alec Guinness, Burt Lancaster oder Rock Hudson. Nach ihrer Karriere vor der Kamera arbeitete sie als Fotografin und Bildhauerin. In den vergangenen Jahren entbrannte um sie ein Familienstreit – auf Initiative ihres Sohnes wies ihr ein Richter einen Vormund zu.
Nevertheless, she ran for parliamentary elections in 2022. For the radical protest party “Italia Sovrana e Populare”, which is, among other things, the exit from the European Union, the common currency euro and NATO, the senior citizen wanted to move into the Senate, the smaller of the two parliamentary chambers. However, she did not succeed.
Lollobrigida was born on July 4, 1927 east of Rome. Throughout her career, several directors have urged her to adopt a stage name instead of her complicated surname. But that was out of the question for Lollobrigida. She acted in films like “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, “Fanfan, the Hussar” or “The Beauties of the Night”. From 1956 to 1959 she won an annual Bambi as best international actress, as well as numerous prizes in her native Italy. However, “La Lollo” was not enough for an Oscar.
