Marina Berti

Marina Berti
Elena Maureen Bertolino (29 September 1924 – 29 October 2002), known professionally as Marina Berti, was an Italian film actress. She was born in London from an Italian father and an English mother.
Biography
Her first screen appearance was in the Anna Magnani film, La Fuggitiva in 1941. She appeared mainly in small roles and in the occasional leading role in nearly 100 films both Italian and American. Her appearances include Quo Vadis (1951), Abdulla the Great (1955), Ben Hur (1959), Cleopatra (1963), If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974), Last Stop on the Night Train (1975), and the TV miniseries' Moses the Lawgiver (1975) and Jesus of Nazareth (1977). Her last film appearance was in the Costa-Gavras film Amen. in 2002.
She was married to the Italian actor Claudio Gora from 1944 until his death in 1998. She is the mother of actor Andrea Giordana and actress Marina Giordana.
Berti died in 2002 in a Rome hospital after a long illness.
Selected filmography
Cinema
(1941) - Lucia, l'assistente di Lia (uncredited)
(1941)
Giacomo the Idealist (1943) - Celestina
The Valley of the Devil (1943) - Greta Hansel
(1943) - Ester
(1943) - Maria Anselmi
(1944) - Zosi
The Gates of Heaven (1945) - La crocerossina
The Ten Commandments (1945) - (segment "Non desiderare la roba d'altri")
The Testimony (1946) - Linda
(1946) - Caterina
Fatal Symphony (1947)- Mirella
(1947) - Anna
Veglia nella notte (1948)
The Earth Cries Out (1949) - Dina
Prince of Foxes (1949) - Angela Borgia
Sicilian Uprising (1949) - Laura
The Sky Is Red (1950) - Carla
Deported (1950) - Gina Carapia
Hearts at Sea (1950) - (uncredited)
Il sentiero dell'odio (1950)
Up Front (1951) - Emi Rosso
The Black Captain (1951) - Barbara Vivaldi
Quo Vadis (1951) - Eunice, Petronius' Spanish slavegirl
Operation Mitra (1951)
The Queen of Sheba (1952) - Zamira, betrothed of Rehoboam
Red Love (1952) - Marianna Sirca
La colpa di una madre (1952) - Alma
Carne inquieta (1952) - Fema Ferrara
Eager to Live (1953) - Lucia
At the Edge of the City (1953) - Luisa
Casta Diva (1954) - Beatrice Turina
Knights of the Queen (1954) - Jacqueline Planchet
Abdulla the Great (1955) - Aziza
(1956)
Marie Antoinette Queen of France (1956) - Comtesse de Polignac
Il canto dell'emigrante (1956) - Mara
The Knight of the Black Sword (1956) - Contessa Laura
Le avventure di Roby e Buck (1957)
Ben Hur (1959) - Flavia (uncredited)
Un eroe del nostro tempo (1960)
Madame Sans-Gêne (1962) - Elisa Bonaparte
Jessica (1962) - Filippella Risino
Damon and Pythias (1962) - Mereka - Nerissa's Friend
Swordsman of Siena (1962) - Countess of Osta
Cleopatra (1963) - Queen at Tarsus (uncredited)
Face in the Rain (1963) - Anna
Monsieur (1964) - Madame Danoni
The Consequences (1964) - Elena
Made in Italy (1965) - Bored Diner (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 1")
An Angel for Satan (1966) - Illa
The Stranger Returns (aka A Man, a Horse, a Gun) (1967) - Ethel
(1967) - Ann
Temptation (1969)
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969) - Gina
Hate Is My God (1969) - Blanche Durand
Dead End (1969) - Mother of Sergio
Safety Catch (1970) - La soeur d'Alberta
La califfa (1970) - Clementine Doberdò - la moglie di Annibale
Tre nel mille (1971)
(1972)
(1973) - madame de Chambaudoin
What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974) - Mrs. Polvesi
The Divine Nymph (1974-1975) - Manoela's Aunt
Night Train Murders (1975) - Laura Stradi - madre di una delle vittime
Don Milani (1976) - La professoressa
(1976)
A Spiral of Mist (1977) - Constanza San Germano
The Repenter (1985)
L'ultima mazurka (1986) - Signora in treno
(1988) - Luigina, Mario Bellomo's wife
(1992) - Eva Meyer
From the Other Side of the World (1992)
Amen. (2002) - La Principessa (final film role)
Television
Le avventure dei tre moschettieri (1957 series) - Jacqueline Planchet
(1960 miniseries)
Moses the Lawgiver (1975 miniseries) - Eliseba
Jesus of Nazareth (1977 miniseries) - Elizabeth
References
External links
British emigrants to Italy
Italian film actresses
1924 births
2002 deaths
Nastro d'Argento winners
Actresses from London
20th-century Italian actresses
20th-century English women
20th-century English people