Pina Menichelli
Pina Menichelli
Biography
Giuseppa Iolanda Menichelli (10 January 1890 – 29 August 1984), known professionally as Pina Menichelli, was an Italian actress. After a career in theatre and a series of small film roles, Menichelli was launched as a film star when Giovanni Pastrone gave her the lead role in The Fire (1916). Over the next nine years, Menichelli made a series of films, often trading on her image as a diva and on her passionate, decadent eroticism. Menichelli became a global star, and one of the most appreciated actresses in Italian cinema, before her retirement in 1924, aged 34. Since her death, restorations of Menichelli's surviving films have been shown at important film festivals, and her filmography has been re-assembled and re-evaluated by film historians.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
21
Gender
Female
Birthday
1890-01-11 (135 years old)
Place of Birth
Castroreale, Sicily, Italy
Acting

1999

Diva Dolorosa as Not available

1923

L' ospite sconosciuta as Not available

1923

La donna e l'uomo as Not available

1923

La dama de chez Maxim's as Not available

1923

La Biondina as Not available

1922

La seconda moglie as Not available

1921

L'età critica as Not available

1920

A Woman's Story as Beatrice

1919

The Railway Owner as Clara de Beaulieu

1918

La Moglie di Claudio as Cesraina Ruper

1918

La Gemma di Sant'Eremo as Not available

1916

The Fire as Poet

1916

The Royal Tigress as Countess Natka

1915

Jenny as Not available

1915

Papà as Not available

1914

Cajus Julius Caesar as Cleopatra

1914

Cabiria as Not available

1914

For Napoleon and France as Rina Larive

1914

Lulu as Lulù