Lucia Bosè

Lucia Bosè (28 January 1931 – 23 March 2020) was an Italian actress.
Life and career
Lucia Bosè was born in Milan to Francesca Borloni and Domenico Bosè. After a number of years working in a bakery, Pasticceria Galli, in her native city, in 1947 she won the second edition of the Miss Italia beauty contest.
Later, she acted in Dino Risi’s short The Five Days of Milan, then in 1950, she made her big-screen debut in Giuseppe De Santis’ Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi (No Peace Under the Olive Tree). The same year, she gave a performance as Paola Molon in Antonioni's Cronaca di un amore. In 1953, Michelangelo Antonioni asked her to play "Clara Manni" in La signora senza camelie and Juan Antonio Bardem cast her in the lead of Muerte de un ciclista (1955). She also appeared in the 1955 film Gli Sbandati and played the main female role in Luis Buñuel's Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1956).
Her career flourished until 1955 when she fell in love with Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín during the filming of Muerte de un ciclista, and gave up acting to marry and raise a family. The couple married twice, first on 1 March 1955 in Las Vegas and then on 19 October of that year, in a Catholic ceremony at the family estate or finca.
Dominguín returned to the bullfighting arena abroad, and their first child, Miguel Bosé, was born in Panama on 3 April 1956. Their second child, Lucia, was born in 1957 and their third, Paola, was born in 1960. Lucia and her husband were married until 1968, but their differences were accentuated over time, especially her lack of interest in bullfighting. She never became close to the "Dominguín" clan, and his marital infidelities also took their toll.
In 1960, she took a small uncredited role in Jean Cocteau's film Le testament d'Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi!. Then, after divorcing Dominguin, she returned full-time to the screen, appearing in Fellini's Fellini Satyricon (1969) and starring in the Taviani Brothers' Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969), Mario Colucci's Something Creeping in The Dark (1971), Liliana Cavani's L'ospite (1972), Giulio Questi's Arcana (1972), Marguerite Duras' Nathalie Granger (1972), Beni Montresor's La messe dorée (1975), Jeanne Moreau's Lumière (1976) and Daniel Schmid's Violanta (1976). She continued to be active in both Italian and Spanish films, appearing in Francesco Rosi's Cronaca di una morte annunciata (1987), Agustí Villaronga's El niño de la luna (1989), Ferzan Özpetek's Harem Suare (1999) and Roberto Faenza's I Viceré (2007).
Death
Bosè died at the General Hospital of Segovia on 23 March 2020, at the age of 89, from pneumonia during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Partial filmography
No Peace Under the Olive Tree (1950) – Lucia Silvestri
Story of a Love Affair (1950) – Paola Molon Fontana
It's Love That's Ruining Me (1951) – Clara Montesi
Paris Is Always Paris (1951) – Mimi de Angelis
Three Girls from Rome (1952) – Marisa Benvenuti
Rome 11:00 (1952) – Simona
The Temptress (1952)
The Lady Without Camelias (1953) – Clara Manni
It Was She Who Wanted It! (1953) – Nausicaa Invernaghi
Of Life and Love (1954) – Angela Reis (segment "Marsina stretta")
Concert of Intrigue (1954) – Elisabeth Tatabor
It Happened at the Police Station (1954) – Stefania Rocca, wife of Luigi
Magic Village (1955) – Thérèse Miceli
Death of a Cyclist (1955) – María José de Castro
Abandoned (1955) – Lucia
Symphony of Love (1956) – Teresa Grob
Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1956) – Clara
Testament of Orpheus (1960) – Une amie d'Orphée / Orphée's Friend (uncredited)
No somos de piedra (1968) – Monja
Nocturne 29 (1968)
Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969) – Glaia
Fellini Satyricon (1969) – La matrona
Love and Other Solitudes (1969) – María
The Picasso Summer (1969) – Woman (uncredited)
Jutrzenka (1969) – George Sand
Metello (1970) – Viola
So Long Gulliver (1970) – Evelyne
Something Creeping in The Dark (1971) – Sylvia Forrest
The Double (1971) – Nora Tosatti
L'ospite (1971) – Anna / Mélisande / Geneviève
The House of the Doves (1972) – Alexandra / Mother
Arcana (1972) – Mamma
Nathalie Granger (1972) – Isabelle
La colonna infame (1972) – Chiara Mora – la moglie di Giacomo
The Heroes (1973) – (uncredited)
Ceremonia sangrienta (1973) – Erzebeth Bathory
Manchas de sangre en un coche nuevo (1975) – Eva
La messe dorée (1975) – Hélène
Down the Ancient Stairs (1975) – Francesca
Lumière (1976) – Laura
Los viajes escolares (1976) – Avelina
Violanta (1977) – Donna Violanta
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987) – Placida Linero
Brumal (1988) – Madre de Adriana
Moon Child (1989) – Directora
Volevo i pantaloni (1990) – Grazia
The Miser (1990) – Dona Elvira
Harem Suare (1999) – Old Safiye
I Viceré (2007) – Donna Ferdinanda
One More Time (2013) – Lucia (final film role)
References
External links
1931 births
2020 deaths
Italian film actresses
Actresses from Milan
20th-century Italian actresses
21st-century Italian actresses
Italian beauty pageant winners
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
Deaths from pneumonia in Spain