Aurora Quattrocchi
Italian actress (born 1943)
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Aurora "Rori" Quattrocchi (born 18 March 1943) is an Italian television, stage and film actress.
Aurora Quattrocchi | |
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Quattrocchi at the 78th Locarno Film Festival (2025) | |
| Born | 18 March 1943 (age 83) |
| Occupation | Actress |
Life and career
Born in Matulji (at the time part of the Kingdom of Italy with the name Mattuglie) where her Sicilian father was serving as an army officer,[1] at 5 years old Quattrocchi lost her mother and went to live in Palermo with her aunt and uncle.[2] She started her career on stage in the 1970s,[3] and made her film debut in 1989, in Marco Risi's Forever Mary.[4]
Among Quattrocchi's best known roles, there are Fortunata in Golden Door, which got her a Chlotrudis Award nomination,[4] and the mother in Nostalgia, for which Quattrocchi got David di Donatello and Nastro d'Argento nominations as best supporting actress.[5][6] Quattrocchi was awarded the International Starlight Cinema Award for her career at the 79th Venice International Film Festival.[7]
In 2025, she received the Leopard for Best Performance at the 78th Locarno Film Festival for Margherita Spampinato's Sweetheart.[8][9]
On May 6, 2026 she was awarded with the David di Donatello for Best Actress again for Margherita Spampinato's Sweetheart.
Selected filmography
- Forever Mary directed by Marco Risi (1989)
- Boys on the Outside, directed by Marco Risi (1990)
- The Rebel, directed by Aurelio Grimaldi (1993)
- The Star Maker, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore (1995)
- One Hundred Steps, directed by Marco Tullio Giordana (2000)
- Malèna, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore (2000)
- The Council of Egypt, directed by Emidio Greco (2002)
- Un día de suerte, directed by Sandra Gugliotta (2002)
- Nati stanchi, directed by Dominick Tambasco (2002)
- Secret File, directed by Paolo Benvenuti (2003)
- Golden Door, directed by Emanuele Crialese (2006)
- Wild Blood, directed by Marco Tullio Giordana (2008)
- La fidanzata di papà, directed by Enrico Oldoini (2008)
- Palermo Shooting, directed by Wim Wenders (2008)
- Purple Sea, directed by Donatella Maiorca (2009)
- The Trick in the Sheet, directed by Alfonso Arau (2010)
- Scossa (segment: Speranza), directed by Carlo Lizzani (2011)
- It Was the Son, directed by Daniele Ciprì (2012)
- Amiche da morire, directed by Giorgia Farina (2013)
- Black Souls, directed by Francesco Munzi (2014)
- At War with Love, directed by Pif (2016)
- Friends by Chance, directed by Francesco Bruni (2017)
- Cetto c'è, senzadubbiamente, directed by Giulio Manfredonia (2019)
- Cruel Peter, directed by Christian Bisceglia and Ascanio Malgarini (2019)
- Nostalgia, directed by Mario Martone (2022)
- L'immensità, directed by Emanuele Crialese (2022)
- Strangeness, directed by Roberto Andò (2022)
- The Bone Breakers, directed by Vincenzo Pirrotta (2022)
- The Illusion, directed by Roberto Andò (2025)
- Memories of the Future, directed by Vanessa Ly (2025)
- Sweetheart, directed by Margherita Spampinato (2025)
- Homo Argentum, directed by Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn (2025)
- Illusione, directed by Francesca Archibugi (2025)
