Date of Birth : Nov 3rd 1931
Vitti’s first film role was in Ettore Scola’s Ridere Ridere Ridere (1954), but her first important performance was in Mario Amendola’s Le dritte (1958). In 1957 she joined Michelangelo Antonioni’s Teatro Nuovo di Milano, later playing a leading role in his internationally celebrated, award winning, and unconventional film, L’avventura (1960), as a detached and cool protagonist drifting into a relationship with the lover of her missing girlfriend. With a screen presence that has been described as “stunning”, she is also credited with helping Antonioni raise money for the production and sticking with him through the shooting on its difficult island location. She later received critical praise for starring roles in other Antonioni films including La notte (Night, 1961), L’eclisse (Eclipse 1962), and Il deserto rosso (1964), which are regarded, with L’avventura, usually as a single series of four remarkable productions of similar style and themes.
In the late 1960s, Monica Vitti decided to leave Antonioni’s cryptic style behind her, to do light comedies again and finding success so, for example like under the direction of Alberto Sordi (Polvere di stelle, 1973) and Ettore Scola (Dramma della gelosia, 1970) and co-starring with Marcello Mastroianni (Dramma della gelosia). Her only English language effort was the title role in Modesty Blaise, a mod James Bond spoof with Terence Stamp (1966) which was of a moderate success with harsh critic reviews.
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