Isabella Biagini

Italian actress and showgirl (1940–2018)

Isabella Biagini

Born	Concetta Biagini (1940-12-08)8 December 1940 Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Died	14 April 2018(2018-04-14) (aged 77) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Actress

Isabella Biagini, born Concetta Biagini, (8 December 1940 – 14 April 2018)^[1] was an Italian actress and showgirl.

Life and career

Biagini was born in Rome on 8 December 1940. She debuted in childhood as a radio actress and advertising model.^[2] At 14 she entered the Miss Italia competition, and made her film debut in a minor role in Michelangelo Antonioni's Le Amiche (1955).^[2] Later from the 1960s, Biagini worked assiduously on the radio and television and posed on many fotonovelas.^[2] On the small screen, she achieved some success not only as a showgirl but also as a talented impersonator; on the big screen, despite the numerous appearances, her roles were usually stereotyped.^[2] In later years, Biagini has been a protagonist of news columns in relation to the critical conditions of poverty in which she lived.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Partial filmography

Il cocco di mamma (1957) - Rosa
La zia d'America va a sciare (1957) - La vedette
Serenatella sciuè sciuè (1958) - Ilde
I due mafiosi (1964) - Jacqueline
Slalom (1965) - Simonetta Riccardo
Love Italian Style (1966) - Assunta
Supermen Against the Orient (1967)
Pensando a te (1969)
Gli infermieri della mutua (1969) - Valeria
Quelli belli... siamo noi (1970) - Fiore Castrosalvo - Gino's niece
La ragazza del prete (1970) - Maria Innocenza Furlan
Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? (1971) - Franco's wife
Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente (1971) - Cecilia
Il clan dei due Borsalini (1971) - Il fantasma
Boccaccio (1972) - Ambrugia
Il sindacalista (1972) - Teresa Piredda - Saverio's wife
Il terrore con gli occhi storti (1972) - Mirella Trombetti
Maria Rosa la guardona (1973) - Maria Rosa Ceccantoni
Supermen Against the Orient (1973) - Moglie del console
L'erotomane (1974) - Dott.ssa Bonetti
Paolo il freddo (1974) - Rich woman
Loaded Guns (1975) - Rosy
La ragazza dalla pelle di corallo (1976) - Antonella
Nick the Sting (1976) - Edy
Atti impuri all'italiana (1976) - Wife of Chemist
Stangata in famiglia (1976)
Il ginecologo della mutua (1979) - Giovanna
Tutti a squola (1979) - Prostituta
Ciao marziano (1980) - Isabella
La cameriera seduce i villeggianti (1980) - Pucci Ferretti
"FF.SS." – Cioè: "...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?" (1983) - Madonna Sofia
The Future Is Woman (1984) - (uncredited)
Grandi magazzini (1986) - Tester
Capriccio (1987) - Stella Polaris
La bruttina stagionata (1996) - madre di Olimpia
Il segreto del giaguaro (2000) - Contessa Kampari Madness (final film role)

References

^ Addio a Isabella Biagini, da Antonioni al varietà (in Italian)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Le Attrici. Gramese.
^ "Biagini: "Per aver rifiutato due boss dello spettacolo sono andata in rovina"". Tuttosport. 13 January 2011. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
^ "Biagini - L'ex icona sexy ridotta a fare la barbona". L'Unione Sarda. 18 March 2009. Retrieved 18 February 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Isabella Biagini su una panchina". Corriere Della Sera. 18 March 2009. Retrieved 18 February 2012.