Marina Berti

Marina Berti
Marina Berti in 1951
Born	Elena Maureen Bertolini (1924-09-29)29 September 1924 London, England
Died	29 October 2002(2002-10-29) (aged 78)[1] Rome, Italy
Resting place	Cimitero Flaminio, Rome
Nationality	Italian
Years active	1941–2002
Spouse(s)	Claudio Gora (m. 1944–98) (his death) (5 children)
Children	Carlo Giordana Andrea Giordana Marina Giordana Luca Giordana Cristina Giordana

Elena Maureen Bertolini, known as Marina Berti, (29 September 1924 – 29 October 2002) was an English-born Italian film actress.

Her first screen appearance was in the Anna Magnani film, La Fuggitiva in 1941. She appeared mainly in small roles and in the occasional leading role in nearly 100 films both Italian and American. Her appearances include Quo Vadis (1951), Abdulla the Great (1955), Ben Hur (1959), Cleopatra (1963), If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974), Night Train Murders (1975), and the TV miniseries' Moses the Lawgiver (1975) and Jesus of Nazareth (1977). Her last film appearance was in the Costa-Gavras film Amen. in 2002.

Selected filmography

She was married to the Italian actor Claudio Gora from 1944 until his death in 1998. She was the mother of actresses Andrea Giordana and Marina Giordana.

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Marina Berti.

• Marina Berti at the Internet Movie Database
• Marina Berti at Find a Grave