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Ornella Muti
Ornella Muti (born March 9, 1955) is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan father and Estonian mother. She has an older sister, Claudia (1951).
Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in La moglie più bella (aka The Most Beautiful Wife).
She has primarily worked in Italian films but she made her British film debut as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon in 1980. American movies she appeared in include Oscar (1991) and Once Upon a Crime (1992). She is mostly known to the French for appearing in a TV commercial of Giovanni Panzani pasta.
Muti has been married twice, to Alessio Orano (her fellow actor in the film "The Most Beautiful Wife", 1975–1981), and Federico Facchinetti (1988–1996).
Muti has three children: Naike Rivelli (b. 1974), who is also a model and actress having a close resemblance to her mother, and whose father is Spanish film producer José Luis Bermúdez de Castro Acaso; a son, Andrea, and a second daughter, Carolina, both from her marriage to Facchinetti.
Since 1998, Muti has been living with Stefano Piccolo, a plastic surgeon.
As actor
Roma elastica
The Undecided Groom
La voglia matta di vivere
Sanremo 72. Il Festival da dove non l’avete mai visto
The Christmas Show
Ti vogliamo bene Francesco Nuti
Mare di grano
Magical Nights
Wine to Love
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
To Rome with Love
Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1
Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 2
Doc West II : Triggerman
Io non ci casco
Postcards from Rome
Il sangue e la rosa
Civico zero
The Final Inquiry
Peopling The Palaces
Yo-Rhad - Un amico dallo spazio
French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
La bambina dalle mani sporche
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
Say I Do
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things