Ornella Muti

Known For

Acting

Birthday

March 9, 1955 (70 years old)

Place of Birth

Roma, Lazio, Italy

Ornella Muti

Biography

Ornella Muti (born March 9, 1955) is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan father and Estonian mother. She has an older sister, Claudia (1951). Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in La moglie più bella (aka The Most Beautiful Wife). She has primarily worked in Italian films but she made her British film debut as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon in 1980. American movies she appeared in include Oscar (1991) and Once Upon a Crime (1992). She is mostly known to the French for appearing in a TV commercial of Giovanni Panzani pasta. Muti has been married twice, to Alessio Orano (her fellow actor in the film "The Most Beautiful Wife", 1975–1981), and Federico Facchinetti (1988–1996). Muti has three children: Naike Rivelli (b. 1974), who is also a model and actress having a close resemblance to her mother, and whose father is Spanish film producer José Luis Bermúdez de Castro Acaso; a son, Andrea, and a second daughter, Carolina, both from her marriage to Facchinetti. Since 1998, Muti has been living with Stefano Piccolo, a plastic surgeon. Muti was voted "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" in 1994 by a worldwide poll of readers of the magazine Class. In 2008, Ornella Muti introduced her own line of jewellery. She opened new shops in Paris, Milan, Rome, Riga, Moscow and Almaty. She insured her breasts for $350,000. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ornella Muti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

  • To Rome with Love

    To Rome with Love

    2012

  • Flash Gordon

    Flash Gordon

    1980

  • French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever

    French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever

    2006

  • Oscar

    Oscar

    1991

  • The Taming of the Scoundrel

    The Taming of the Scoundrel

    1980

  • Department Store

    Department Store

    1986

  • Madly in Love

    Madly in Love

    1981

  • The New Monsters

    The New Monsters

    1977

  • Magical Nights

    Magical Nights

    2018

  • Christmas Vacation '91

    Christmas Vacation '91

    1991

  • The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

    The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

    2004

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo

    1998

  • Rich and Poor

    Rich and Poor

    1983

  • Once Upon a Crime

    Once Upon a Crime

    1992

  • Death of a Corrupt Man

    Death of a Corrupt Man

    1977