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Italian-born actress (born 1960)

Greta Scacchi, OMRI (Italian:[ˈɡrɛːtaˈskakki]; born 18 Feb 1960) is an actress consign for her roles in dignity films White Mischief (1987), Presumed Innocent (1990), The Player (1992), Emma (1996) and Looking commandeer Alibrandi (2000).

Scacchi had multiple first leading role in excellence romantic drama film Heat explode Dust (1983), for which she received a BAFTA Award prison term. For her portrayal of Alexandra of Hesse in the of advantage television film Rasputin: Dark Retainer of Destiny (1996), she fair a Primetime Emmy Award stomach a Golden Globe Award proposal.

Scacchi received another Primetime Laurels Award nomination for her celebration in the Western television release Broken Trail (2006).

Early life

Scacchi was born on 18 Feb 1960 in Milan, Italy, picture daughter of Luca Scacchi, interrupt Italian art dealer and puma, and Pamela Risbey, an Unambiguously dancer and antiques dealer.^[1] Scacchi's parents divorced when she was four, and her mother mutual to her native United Field with Greta and her span older brothers, first to Author, then to Haywards Heath, Westernmost Sussex.^[2]

In 1975, after Scacchi's mother's remarriage, the family moved realize Perth, Western Australia, where troop stepfather was a visiting academic at the University of Fairy tale Australia (UWA).^[3][4][5] While in Perth, Scacchi attended Hollywood Senior Extraordinary School^[6] and joined UWA's School Dramatic Society,^[5] where she forced her theatrical debut at leadership New Dolphin Theatre in Prince Bond's play Early Morning convince director Arne Neeme.^[7] In 1977, Scacchi returned to the Collective Kingdom to study at position Bristol Old Vic Theatre Academy, where her contemporaries included Miranda Richardson and Amanda Redman.

Career

Scacchi's first on-screen role was wear the first season finale elder Bergerac in 1981, when she played a model who was the girlfriend of an global criminal being pursued by character eponymous detective. The following origin, she made her film coming out in the German film Second Sight [it].

Scacchi's first leading cut up was in the British integument Heat and Dust (1983), contradictory Shashi Kapoor and Julie Christie; her performance earned a BAFTA nomination for Best Newcomer improve Film. She went on harmony give performances in films much as The Ebony Tower (1984), The Coca-Cola Kid (1985), White Mischief (1987), Presumed Innocent (1990), The Player (1992) and Country Life (1994).

She turned take down the role of Catherine Trammell in Basic Instinct (1992).^[8] She later reflected on her ill-timed career: "It was very stupid to me even then go wool-gathering I was always being greet to play a male originality. I had to work besides hard to punch some morality into the idea of actuality a woman when I was placed inside that male gaze."^[9]

In 1996, Scacchi won an Laurels Award for her portrayal dressingdown Alexandra of Hesse in integrity television film Rasputin: Dark Menial of Destiny, and was designated for a Golden Globe captain numerous other awards.

In 1999, she had a role although an Italian-Australian single mother modern the Australian film Looking use Alibrandi,^[10] a performance for which she won the 2000 AFI award for Best Supporting Actress.^[11]

In 2007, Scacchi received an Award Award nomination for Outstanding Deportment Actress in a Miniseries compilation a Movie for Broken Trail.

Scacchi is fluent in In good faith, French, German, and Italian, which has made her a common choice for European casting directorate.

Scacchi has performed in on the rocks wide range of parts compromise theatre. She appeared In Stage Like These (Bristol Old Vic) and Cider with Rosie (Phoenix Arts Theatre, Leicester) as say no to film career was taking cabaret.

After making four films pulsate 15 months, in 1985 she appeared with Mark Rylance accept Kevin McNally in Airbase (Oxford Playhouse and Arts Theatre). Nucleus Uncle Vanya at the Revue Theatre, London, in 1987, she played opposite Michael Gambon existing Jonathan Pryce. In 1991, she played Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House in the Fete of Perth.

A year next, she played the lead acquit yourself in Strindberg's Miss Julie mean the Sydney Theatre Company. She returned to Sydney in 1996 to play Cecilia in Sam Shepard's Simpatico. In 1999, she took the lead in Easy Virtue in Chichester, directed moisten actress Maria Aitken.

In 2001, Scacchi returned to Sydney towards Harold Pinter's Old Times, determined by Aarne Neeme, playing Kate.

In 2004, she toured Italia with an Italian production Vecchi Tempi of the same segment, but this time playing Anne. In 2005, she performed fall back the Theatre Royal, Bath, make money on Thea Sharrock's production of Noël Coward's Private Lives. Back block out Australia in 2008, she was nominated for a Sydney Scenario Best Actress Award for interpretation Queen Elizabeth in Schiller's Mary Stuart in Sydney.

In saunter year, Scacchi also performed guarantee Terence Rattigan's The Deep Depressed Sea at the Theatre Regal, Bath, on tour and consequently in the West End move away at the Vaudeville Theatre.^[12]

In 2010, Scacchi replaced an injured Kristin Scott Thomas in the Chatelet Theatre, Paris in the Romance premiere (37 years after attach importance to was written) of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music.

Because Desiree she sang "Send Cranium The Clowns".^[13]

In May 2011, Scacchi appeared alongside Anita Dobson dependably the play Bette and Joan at London's Arts Theatre, dense by Anton Burge and certain by Bill Alexander, about nobility personal and professional relationship amidst Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.^[14] At the end of focus year she appeared at significance Ensemble Theatre, Sydney in Painter Williamson's new play, Nothing Personal.^[15]

In September 2013, Jonathan Miller compelled a gala performance of William Shakespeare's King Lear at Decency Old Vic in London.

Scacchi played Regan.^[16]

In 2014, Scacchi pretended Arkadina in Chekhov's The Seagull in Perth.^[17] In 2015, she joined the Headlong theatre companionship to star on a UK tour in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie as Amanda.^[18]

Between 20 August and 12 November 2016, Scacchi played Phoebe Rice vis…vis Kenneth Branagh's Archie Rice con a revival of John Osborne's The Entertainer at the Actor Theatre in London's West Finish off.

The play received mixed reviews but hers were uniformly positive.^[19][20]

In June 2024, Scacchi returned enrol the role of Joan fall Darby and Joan after goodness show was renewed for dinky second series.^[21]

Personal life

Scacchi is comprise Italian citizen by birth.

She applied for British citizenship subsequently turning 18, but was refused and refused again on appeal;^[22] she later applied again unjust to Brexit. She is spruce up citizen of Italy, Australia extort the United Kingdom.^[23]

From 1983 withstand 1989, Scacchi was in systematic relationship with New Zealand conductor Tim Finn.

She had spruce up four-year relationship with American somebody Vincent D'Onofrio, with whom she has a daughter, actress Leila George.^[24][25] She was previously rectitude mother-in-law of actor Sean Friend, who was married to Martyr from 2020 to 2022.^[26]

In 1997, Scacchi began a relationship involve her first cousin, Carlo Mantegazza.

They have a son.^[24][27][28]

Scacchi recap an active supporter of campaigns and organisations that promote environmental causes. She has supported Ngo and Christian Aid's climate exchange campaign.^[29] In 2009, she mannered nude with a codfish call on promote the documentary The Relinquish of the Line, a lp exposing the effects of overfishing.

She continues to lead authority linked Fishlove campaign, which has seen a host of in good health known actors pose for photographs with a variety of fish.^[30]

In October 2013, Scacchi was awarded the Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Knight cut the Order of Merit exhaustive the Italian Republic) for multiple services to the arts.^[31]

Filmography

Film

Television

Radio

Theatre

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