Braschi was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award as a cast member of that film. Roberto Benigni won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 71st Academy Awards as well as the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film was a widely praised success that launched both Braschi and her husband into the international spotlight. Part of the film came from Benigni's own family history before Roberto's birth, his father had survived three years of internment at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Braschi played the wife of an Italian Jew (Benigni) imprisoned in a concentration camp. Nicoletta Braschi’s biggest success was La Vita è Bella/Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni, 1998). The film won her a David di Donatello award (Italy's equivalent of the Oscars) and much praise from critics and the public. In 1997 Nicoletta Braschi starred in the comedy Ovosodo/Boiled Egg (Paolo Virzi, 1997) as a depressed teacher encouraging a student to work and study harder. This film was, at the time it came out, the highest-grossing film in Italy. Braschi played an attractive police officer, who goes undercover as his roommate.
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However, Son of the Pink Panther failed to generate critical or commercial success, the loss of Peter Sellers as Clouseau proving once again to be too great.Ī huge success in Europe was the Italian-French comedy Il mostro/The Monster (Roberto Benigni, 1994) starring Benigni as a man who is mistaken by police profilers for a serial killer due to a misunderstanding of the man's strange behaviour. Also in this film are Panther regulars Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk and Graham Stark and a star of the original 1963 film, Claudia Cardinale. Roberto Benigni starred as Inspector Clouseau's illegitimate son. She had a small part in Son of the Pink Panther (Blake Edwards, 1993) is a continuation of the The Pink Panther film series. During its release in 1991, it was the highest grossing film in Italy.
The film takes several unexpected twists when Maria begins to fall for Dante, and it becomes clear that Dante cannot possibly be the cold blooded killer Stecchino. Maria plans to trick the mobsters to kill Dante thinking he is Stecchino.
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She meets a quirky school bus driver for students with Down syndrome, who bears a striking resemblance to her husband who is wanted by Sicilian mobsters for treason and murder. She played Maria, the girlfriend of Johnny Stecchino, an Italian mobster. With her husband she then starred in one of their most successful collaborations, the comedy Johnny Stecchino (Roberto Benigni, 1992). In 1991, Nicoletta Braschi married Roberto Benigni. Publicity still for Il piccolo diavolo/The Little Devil (Roberto Benigni, 1988). Braschi also played a supporting part in the British-Italian drama The Sheltering Sky (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1990), based on the 1949 novel by Paul Bowles. She appeared in the segment A Ghost as an Italian widow stranded in Memphis, Tennessee overnight. She again worked with Jim Jarmusch on a segment of the American anthology film Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch, 1989). Braschi plays another little devil who manages to attract Giuditta who finally leaves Maurice and follows her ‘elsewhere’. Benigni stars as a little devil Giuditta who follows Father Maurice ( Walther Matthau) and often gets him into trouble. She also appeared in Benigni’s comedy Il piccolo diavolo/The Little Devil (Roberto Benigni, 1988). Bob (Benigni) and Nicoletta instantly fall in love, and Bob decides to stay with her in the forest. The trio eventually chance across a house in the forest, the residence of Nicoletta (Braschi). The film centres on the arrest, incarceration, and escape from jail of three men ( Tom Waits, John Lurie and Roberto Benigni). Next she appeared in the American film Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch, 1986). It was also the directorial debut of Benigni and the first film in which they co-starred.
Her film debut was the anthology comedy Tu Mi Turbi/You Upset Me (Roberto Benigni, 1983) in which she played the Virgin Mary. Braschi studied in Rome's Academy of Dramatic Arts where she first met Roberto Benigni in 1980. Nicoletta Braschi was born on Apin Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Publicity still for La tigre e la neve/The Tiger and the Snow (Roberto Benigni, 2005). Italian actress Nicoletta Braschi (1960) is best known for the acclaimed film La vita è bella (1997), in which she co-starred with her husband Roberto Benigni.
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