Farewell to Piera degli Esposti, multifaceted and gifted actress

Piera degli Esposti, a great actress of theater, film and television, passed away yesterday, Aug. 14, at the age of 83. She had been hospitalized since early June at Rome’s Santo Spirito Hospital for lung complications.

Born in Bologna in 1938, her success began at Teatro dell’Aquila andTeatro dei 101 with Antonio Calenda as master and director and Gigi Proietti as her young colleague. Television success came with Il Conte di Montecristo and I Promessi Sposi, although theater has always been a source of inspiration for her. Her film career took off instead with the film Trio.

Throughout her long career she starred in films, screenplays, and plays, including The Pickwick Circle, Medea directed by Pasolini, and Under the Sign of the Scorpion by the Taviani brothers. Known was her friendship with Dacia Maraini, thanks to whom in 1980 she wrote Storia di Piera, where she recounted her unhappy youth, later made into a film directed by Marco Ferreri.

She worked with directors such as Lina Wertmüller, Nanni Moretti, Cinzia TH Torrini, and Marco Bellocchio. He won the Silver Ribbon for his performance in The Devil’s Tail and the David di Donatello in L’ora di religione and Il divo. In theater she has starred in Mother Courage, Prometheus and Stabat Mater. She has also directed operas such as Lodoletta, La notte di un nevrastenico and La voce umana.

A multifaceted and highly talented actress, she was at ease in the most diverse roles, so much so that she was nicknamed the barefoot queen of the Italian stage.

“Farewell to Piera Degli Esposti,” these were the words of Culture Minister Dario Franceschini. “Italian cinema and theater lose a great artist, a tenacious woman with a formidable talent who with her interpretations and her magnificent voice was able to convey unique emotions and win over the audience.”

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Farewell to Piera degli Esposti, multifaceted and gifted actress

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