Happy birthday, auguri, to an actress that has kept her vibrant career going for nearly 50 years and manages to stay youthfully gorgeous – Anna Bonaiuto! 65 today and no sign of retiring.
One of her best performances is in a movie that is easy to find in the US, ,Il Divo a must see for Italian film lovers. Directed by Paolo Sorrentino and also starring Toni Servillo, Anna plays the wife of seven time Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti. This is the true story of Italy’s Watergate – with a lot more blood – and it makes for a shocking and compelling movie.
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You can see her as Evelina Pileggi in Roberto Andò’s political comedy, Viva La Libertà, and in Mario Martone’s sweeping historical film about Italy’s Unification, Noi Credevamo (We Believed).
She’s worked with practically every important director from Sorrentino to Carlo Verdone to Nanni Moretti, and she’s in Gianni DiGregorio’s newest comedy, Buoni a Nulla.
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