TOttrrice with an extraordinary career (and still very active between cinema and theater), Milena Vukotic turns 90 today. Roman, born in 1935, Milena is one of the most loved interpreters by the public of all agesthanks to its natural sympathy but also to the ability to pass naturally from comic roles to dramatic films. Minute and delicate, the actress is Lindissolubly eaten to the role of Pina in the saga Fantozzi But, thanks to its class, he was able to leave his mark elsewhere. From fiction A doctor in the family Until its most recent role in Diamonds by Ferzan Özpetek.
Milena Vukotic turns 90. The origins, the parents and the first years of career
Daughter of a comediographer of Montenegrin origin and an Italian pianist, Milena since childhood studies piano, acting and classical dance in London, Vienna and Paris. In the early 1950s, is dedicated exclusively to dance and joins, albeit briefly, of the Corps of Ball of the Paris Opera.
Then, in 1954, The vision of the film The road by Federico Fellini is a electrocution that leads her to give up the dance and dedicate herself to the cinema. The debut arrives in 1960 with the film The assassin Then numerous Italian comedies where Milena He recites for important directors such as Dino Risi, the beloved Fellini (with whom he becomes very friend) and Ettore Scola. At the beginning of the career, His roles are almost always in a side dish, as a characteristlike the shy and silent servant or the lady of the upper bourgeoisie.
Also active on televisionin 1964 Lina Wertmüller chooses her for the role of One of the sisters of Gian Burrasca in Gian Burrasca’s newspaper With Rita Pavone. Milena is then the protagonist of In the world of Alicetelevision transposition of the novel Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll e leads many children’s programs.
Success with My friends and the role of Pina in Fantozzi
Multifaceted, intelligent and non -canonical beautyMilena’s talent allows her to recite also in dramatic roles and, in the early seventies, For the actress comes the consecration thanks to the brilliant Spanish director Luis Buñuel who wants it for some of his cult films such as in The discreet charm of the bourgeoisieThe ghost of freedom, That dark object of desire.
The real popularity, however, arrives in 1975 when Mario Monicelli writing for My friends In the role of the devoted and neglected wife of Ugo Tognazzi. A part of the very first level, which however gives the actress The real success of the public, destined to increase even more in 1980, when he takes over from Liù Bosisio in the role of Pina Fantozzi In the famous comic saga on the unfortunate accountant.
Inextricably linked to the characterMilena also wins A silver tape as the best support actress in 1994 for Fantozzi in Paradise. Then, after the end of the filming of the tenth and last chapter of the saga (Fantozzi 2000 – Cloning), Milena says goodbye forever in Pina and enters the cast of the TV series A doctor in the family next to Lino Banfi.
Paolo Villaggio and Milena Vukotic in “Fantozzi alla Riscossa”. (Getty Images)
His partner Alfredo (married after 20 years) and the children who did not arrive
Very reserved for private life, we know that Milena has been married since 2003 with Alfredo Baldi, a famous author, as well as esteemed historical and critical of cinema. As she said during the edition of Dancing with the stars In 2019: “I met him at the Experimental Center of Cinematography and I liked it immediately. But I was shyeven more than him. It took a while to start our story ». The couple had no children But Milena is a lot linked to the children that the husband had from a previous link.
Milena Vukotic with her husband Alfredo Baldi in “Dancing with the stars” in 2019.
Milena Vukotic a Dancing with the stars and the success of the film Diamonds
Without ever abandoning the theater, The last years of Milena’s career have been equally divided between cinema and television. In 2019 then the actress participates how competitor a Dancing with the starsdusting off the ancient passion for dance and becoming one of the protagonists of that edition.
The association created with Ferzan Özpetek is also very strong and started in 2007 with Saturn againstin which it has the role of an aspra but human nurse. Subsequently it also reads in A perfect day and last year in DiamondsFilm Ribbing of the Turkish director and with a choral cast that has 18 Italian actresses among the protagonists.
From today, however, until May 18, Milena will be the protagonist of Andrée Ruth Shammah’s new show entitled Love lesson al Franco Parenti Theater of Milan. Story of a piano teacher, a brilliant musician, who meets a fragile young man deemed unsuitable in the world.
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