Ornella Muti (born Francesca Romana Rivelli; 9 March 1955) is an Italian actress.

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Career
• 3 Personal life
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Early life

Muti was born in Rome to a Neapolitan journalist father and Ilse Renate Krause, a Baltic German sculptor from Estonia. Her maternal grandparents emigrated from Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) to Estonia.

Career

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 English-speaking film debut as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon in 1980. American movies she appeared in include Love and Money (1982), Casanova (1987), Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1989), A Season of Giants (1990), Oscar (1991), Once Upon a Crime (1992), Somewhere in the City (1998) and To Rome with Love (2012).

In 2008, Muti introduced her own line of jewelry and subsequently opened shops in Paris, Milan, Rome, Riga, Moscow and Almaty. In 1999 she insured her breasts for $350,000.

In 2015, the Italian court of Pordenone condemns her to 8 months in prison, for having canceled a theatrical performance following a health problem, which did not prevent her from participating in a social dinner with Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg, in December 2010. She avoids prison by paying the sum of 30,000 euros to the Verdi theater as compensation.

Personal life

Muti has been married twice, first to Alessio Orano (a fellow actor in The Most Beautiful Wife), from 1975 to 1981. She was married, secondly, to Federico Fachinetti, from 1988 to 1996. Muti has three children: Naike Rivelli (born 1974), a fashion model, singer, and actress; a son, Andrea, and a second daughter, Carolina, both from her marriage to Fachinetti. On February 1, 2022, the actress announced that she would like to obtain Russian citizenship. "It would be nice for me to get citizenship, because it is part of my culture *ociated with my mother. She died this year, and it would be a gift for her," the artist said in an interview with T*.

References

External links

• Ornella Muti at IMDb;
• Ornella Muti at AllMovie.