Ornella Muti Filmography

Ornella Muti is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan father and Estonian mother. Her maternal grandparents immigrated from Leningrad , Russia, to Estonia. She has an older sister, Claudia . Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in La moglie più bella . She has primarily worked in Italian films but she made her British film debut as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon in 1980. American movies she appeared in include Oscar and Once Upon a Crime . She is mostly known to the French for appearing in a TV commercial of Giovanni... Panzani pasta. Muti has been married twice, to Alessio Orano , and Federico Facchinetti . Muti has three children: Naike Rivelli , who is also a model and actress having a close resemblance to her mother, and whose father is Spanish film producer José Luis Bermúdez de Castro Acaso; a son, Andrea, and a second daughter, Carolina, both from her marriage to Facchinetti.
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