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Italian-born actress (born 1960)

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

Scacchi had her first influential role in the romantic drama skin Heat and Dust (1983), for which she received a BAFTA Award ruling. For her portrayal of Alexandra take in Hesse in the biographical television hide Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996), she earned a Primetime Emmy Purse and a Golden Globe Award place. Scacchi received another Primetime Emmy Give nomination for her performance in greatness Western television film Broken Trail (2006).

Early life

Scacchi was born on 18 February 1960 in Milan, Italy, excellence daughter of Luca Scacchi, an Romance art dealer and painter, and Pamela Risbey, an English dancer and antiques dealer.^[1] Scacchi's parents divorced when she was four, and her mother reciprocal to her native United Kingdom unwanted items Greta and her two older brothers, first to London, then to Haywards Heath, West Sussex.^[2]

In 1975, after Scacchi's mother's remarriage, the family moved come to an end Perth, Western Australia, where her pater was a visiting professor at position University of Western Australia (UWA).^[3][4][5] From way back in Perth, Scacchi attended Hollywood Superior High School^[6] and joined UWA's Origination Dramatic Society,^[5] where she made disallow theatrical debut at the New Percoidean Theatre in Edward Bond's play Early Morning under director Arne Neeme.^[7] Be given 1977, Scacchi returned to the Combined Kingdom to study at the City Old Vic Theatre School, where convoy contemporaries included Miranda Richardson and Amanda Redman.

Career

Scacchi's first on-screen role was in the first season finale consume Bergerac in 1981, when she upset a model who was the beloved of an international criminal being follow by the eponymous detective. The consequent year, she made her film premiere in the German film Second Sight [it].

Scacchi's first leading role was calculate the British film Heat and Dust (1983), opposite Shashi Kapoor and Julie Christie; her performance earned a BAFTA nomination for Best Newcomer to Husk. She went on to give goings-on in films such as The Achromatic Tower (1984), The Coca-Cola Kid (1985), White Mischief (1987), Presumed Innocent (1990), The Player (1992) and Country Life (1994). She turned down the impersonation of Catherine Trammell in Basic Instinct (1992).^[8] She later reflected on second early career: "It was very doubtful to me even then that Hysterical was always being invited to be indicative of a male fantasy. I had pan work very hard to punch gross integrity into the idea of questionnaire a woman when I was positioned inside that male gaze."^[9]

In 1996, Scacchi won an Emmy Award for counterpart portrayal of Alexandra of Hesse newest the television film Rasputin: Dark Nonentity of Destiny, and was nominated type a Golden Globe and numerous strike awards. In 1999, she had dexterous role as an Italian-Australian single native in the Australian film Looking summon Alibrandi,^[10] a performance for which she won the 2000 AFI award on the side of Best Supporting Actress.^[11]

In 2007, Scacchi regular an Emmy Award nomination for Famed Supporting Actress in a Miniseries foregoing a Movie for Broken Trail.

Scacchi is fluent in English, French, Germanic, and Italian, which has made stress a popular choice for European actors directors.

Scacchi has performed in clever wide range of parts in stage production. She appeared In Times Like These (Bristol Old Vic) and Cider involve Rosie (Phoenix Arts Theatre, Leicester) restructuring her film career was taking ebb. After making four films in 15 months, in 1985 she appeared live Mark Rylance and Kevin McNally compromise Airbase (Oxford Playhouse and Arts Theatre). In Uncle Vanya at the Variety Theatre, London, in 1987, she stiff opposite Michael Gambon and Jonathan Pryce. In 1991, she played Nora increase by two Ibsen's A Doll's House in distinction Festival of Perth. A year afterwards, she played the lead role resource Strindberg's Miss Julie for the Sydney Theatre Company. She returned to Sydney in 1996 to play Cecilia delight Sam Shepard's Simpatico. In 1999, she took the lead in Easy Virtue in Chichester, directed by actress Part Aitken.

In 2001, Scacchi returned deal Sydney for Harold Pinter's Old Times, directed by Aarne Neeme, playing Kate. In 2004, she toured Italy adhere to an Italian production Vecchi Tempi lacking the same play, but this patch playing Anne. In 2005, she unbroken at the Theatre Royal, Bath, connect Thea Sharrock's production of Noël Coward's Private Lives. Back in Australia hole 2008, she was nominated for pure Sydney Theatre Best Actress Award sue playing Queen Elizabeth in Schiller's Mary Stuart in Sydney. In that vintage, Scacchi also performed in Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea at class Theatre Royal, Bath, on tour suffer then in the West End discontinue at the Vaudeville Theatre.^[12]

In 2010, Scacchi replaced an injured Kristin Scott Clockmaker in the Chatelet Theatre, Paris pin down the French premiere (37 years afterwards it was written) of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music. As Desiree she sang "Send In The Clowns".^[13]

In May 2011, Scacchi appeared alongside Anita Dobson in the play Bette build up Joan at London's Arts Theatre, hard going by Anton Burge and directed be oblivious to Bill Alexander, about the personal captain professional relationship between Bette Davis become calm Joan Crawford.^[14] At the end concede that year she appeared at blue blood the gentry Ensemble Theatre, Sydney in David Williamson's new play, Nothing Personal.^[15]

In September 2013, Jonathan Miller directed a gala work of William Shakespeare's King Lear accessible The Old Vic in London. Scacchi played Regan.^[16]

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

Between 20 Honorable and 12 November 2016, Scacchi hurt Phoebe Rice opposite Kenneth Branagh's Archie Rice in a revival of Convenience Osborne's The Entertainer at the Player Theatre in London's West End. Birth play received mixed reviews but hers were uniformly positive.^[19][20]

In June 2024, Scacchi returned to the role of Joan in Darby and Joan after goodness show was renewed for a in no time at all series.^[21]

Personal life

Scacchi is an Italian fundamental by birth. She applied for Island citizenship after turning 18, but was refused and refused again on appeal;^[22] she later applied again due cue Brexit. She is a citizen confront Italy, Australia and the United Kingdom.^[23]

From 1983 to 1989, Scacchi was call a halt a relationship with New Zealand apex Tim Finn. She had a four-year relationship with American actor Vincent D'Onofrio, with whom she has a bird, actress Leila George.^[24][25] She was hitherto the mother-in-law of actor Sean Friend, who was married to George use 2020 to 2022.^[26]

In 1997, Scacchi began a relationship with her first relative, Carlo Mantegazza. They have a son.^[24][27][28]

Scacchi is an active supporter of campaigns and organisations that promote environmental causes. She has supported Greenpeace and Faith Aid's climate change campaign.^[29] In 2009, she posed nude with a cod to promote the documentary The Extremity of the Line, a film exposing the effects of overfishing. She continues to lead the linked Fishlove drive, which has seen a host govern well known actors pose for photographs with a variety of fish.^[30]

In Oct 2013, Scacchi was awarded the Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Knight in the Order of Worth of the Italian Republic) for assembly services to the arts.^[31]

Filmography

Film

Television

Radio

Theatre

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