Pina Menichelli
Known For
Acting
Born
1890-01-11 in Castroreale, Sicily, Italy
Died
1984-08-29
Biography
Giuseppa Iolanda Menichelli (10 January 1890 – 29 August 1984), known professionally as Pina Menichelli, was an Italian actress. After a career in theatre and a series of small film roles, Menichelli was launched as a film star when Giovanni Pastrone gave her the lead role in The Fire (1916). Over the next nine years, Menichelli made a series of films, often trading on her image as a diva and on her passionate, decadent eroticism. Menichelli became a global star, and one of the most appreciated actresses in Italian cinema, before her retirement in 1924, aged 34. Since her death, restorations of Menichelli's surviving films have been shown at important film festivals, and her filmography has been re-assembled and re-evaluated by film historians.
Most Known For
Papà
The Fire
as Poet
The Royal Tigress
as Countess Natka
Cabiria
Diva Dolorosa
Lulu
as Lulù
For Napoleon and France
as Rina Larive
La Moglie di Claudio
as Cesarina Ruper
Jenny
The Railway Owner
as Clara de Beaulieu
A Woman's Story
as Beatrice
Cajus Julius Caesar
as Cleopatra
Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time
as Wife
La seconda moglie
Il Romanzo di un Giovane Povero
as Margherita
La Biondina
La donna e l'uomo
La Gemma di Sant'Eremo
L' ospite sconosciuta
