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Name: Anna Magnani
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Date of Birth:
March 07, 1908
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Place of Birth:
Rome, Italy
Mini-bio:
Anna Magnani (March 7, 1908 - September 26, 1973) was an Academy Award-winning Italian actress, with stage experience. Born in Rome, she was brought up in poverty by her maternal grandmother in a slum
...( read more) district of the city. After some education at a convent school, she enrolled at Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art and sang in nightclubs and cabarets to support herself. Due to her work in nightclubs, Magnani was dubbed the Italian Édith Piaf. She died at the age of 65 in Rome, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.