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Biography
Marcello Mastroianni in 1958
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (September 28, 1924 – December 19, 1996) was an Academy Award nominated Italian film actor.
Born in Fontana Liri, a small village in the Apennines, Mastroianni grew up in Turin and Rome. During World War II he was interned in a Nazi prison, but he escaped and hid in Venice.
In 1945 he started working for a film company and began taking acting lessons. His film debut was in I Miserabili (from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables) in 1947.
He soon became a major international romantic star, starring in Big Deal on Madonna Street;especially when Federico Fellini cast him in La Dolce Vita with Anita Ekberg in 1960.
He followed that with another signature role, that of a frustrated, womanizing film director in Fellini's 8½.
Mastroianni was married to the Italian actress Flora Carabella (1926 – 1999), who appeared in many films including "Lunatics and Lovers" and "A Night Full of Rain", from 1948 until his death; they had one child, Barbara.
He also had a daughter, Chiara Mastroianni, with his longtime mistress, the actress Catherine Deneuve; both Flora and Catherine were at his bedside when he died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 72.
Academy Award Nominations
1988 – Best Actor - Dark Eyes
1978 – Best Actor - A Special Day
1963 – Best Actor - Divorce, Italian Style
