Italian screen siren Monica Vitti, who had been battling Alzheimers disease for two decades, has died aged 90 according to Italian press reports.
Writer, director and politician Walter Veltroni announced the news on behalf of Vitti’s longterm partner Roberto Russo.
Vitti, born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli in Rome in 1931, shot to global fame in filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni trio of early 1960s films “L’Avventura,” “La Notte” and “L’Eclisse” along with his 1964 classic “Red Desert”.
She switched things up with some famous comedies and steadily worked for around twenty-five years in films such as “Modesty Blaise,” “I Married You For Fun,” “The Girl with the Pistol,” “La Tosca,” “The Phantom of Liberty,” “The Pizza Triangle,” “Polvere di stelle,” “Duck in Orange Sauce,” “Flirt” and “An Almost Perfect Affair”.
Over her career, she won five David Di Donatello Awards for Best Actress, seven Italian Golden Globes, the Venice Film Festival Career Golden Lion Award and was BAFTA nominated.
Source: The Sun
