Maddalena Crippa (born 4 September 1957) is an Italian film, television and stage actress. She won a David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Academy Award nominee Three Brothers by Francesco Rosi.
Life and career
Born in Besana in Brianza, Crippa started to act at young age in an amateur dramatics with her father and brothers. At 17 years old, at exams to attend the drama school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, the director Giorgio Strehler was impressed by her acting skills and gave her a role in his adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's Il campiello (1975). From then, Crippa started a busy career in theater, working among others with Giancarlo Cobelli, Luca Ronconi and her husband Peter Stein. She is also active in TV-series and in films.
Miniseries
1976: La casa nova of Carlo Goldoni, director Luigi Squarzina
1976: I due gemelli veneziani of Carlo Goldoni, director Luigi Squarzina
1976: Così per gioco, regia di Leonardo Cortese
Filmography
1976: Aut aut. Cronaca di una rapina
1981: Tre fratelli, dir. Francesco Rosi
1982: No grazie, il caffè mi rende nervoso, dir Lodovico Gasparini
1985: Juke Box, dir. Valerio Jalongo
1986: Aurelia, dir. Giorgio Molteni
1987: L'attrazione, dir. Mario Gariazzo
1990: Non più di uno, dir. Roberto Pelosso
1993: Berlino '39, dir. Sergio Sollima
1998: Giochi d'equilibrio, dir. Amedeo Fago
1998: Il commissario Rex, episode ... e tutto ricomincia
1998: Film, dir. Laura Belli
1999: Viol@, dir. Donatella Maiorca
2000: Onorevoli detenuti, dir. Giancarlo Planta
2011: In carne e ossa, dir. Christian Angeli
2016: Io non mi arrendo, dir. Enzo Monteleone (2016)