Greta Scacchi Biography
Greta Scacchi (born on February 18, 1960 in Milan, Italy) is an Emmy Award Winning film actress.
Biography
Greta Scacchi was born in Milan, Italy, the daughter of an English dancer and an
Italian painter. Her parents divorced when she was three and her mother returned
to England with Greta and two older brothers. In 1975, Greta's family (her
mother had remarried) moved to Australia.
In 1977, Greta Scacchi returned to England to pursue an acting career. She
studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, with Miranda Richardson and
Amanda Redman. In 1982, she made her film debut in the German movie Das Zweite
Gesicht (The Second Face) and gave versatile performances in films such as Heat
and Dust (1983), White Mischief (1987), Presumed Innocent (1990), The Player
(1993), and Country Life (1994).
Between 1983 and 1989, Greta Scacchi was romantically involved with New Zealand
singer/songwriter Tim Finn. In 1991 she married American actor Vincent D'Onofrio.
The marriage, which lasted approximately eighteen months, produced a daughter,
Leila George (born on March 20, 1992). She also has a son, Matteo, (born 1998)
with her cousin, Carlo Mantegazza.
Film List
- Das Zweite Gesicht (1982) German
- Dead On Time (1982/short), with Rowan Atkinson
- Heat and Dust (1983), by James Ivory
- Waterfront (1984) TV mini-series
- Camille (1984) TV movie
- The Ebony Tower (1984)
- The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)
- Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1985) Australian TV movie
- Burke & Wills (1985)
- Defence of the Realm (1985)
- Un homme amoureux (1987), by Diane Kurys
- Good Morning, Babylon (1987) Italian
- White Mischief (1987)
- Three Sisters (1988)
- La donna della luna (1988) (aka The Moon Woman) Italian
- Presumed Innocent (1990)
- Fires Within (1991)
- Shattered (1991)
- Turtle Beach (1992)
- The Player (1992) by Robert Altman
- Salt on Our Skin (1992)
- The Browing Version (1994)
- Country Life (1994)
- Jefferson in Paris (1995), by James Ivory
- Rasputin (1996) TV movie - Scacchi won an Emmy for her performance
- Cosi (1996)
- Emma (1996)
- The Serpent's Kiss (1997)
- The Odyssey (1997) TV movie
- Macbeth (1998) TV movie
- Le Violon rouge (1998) (The Red Violin) French
- Love and Rage (1998)
- The Manor (1999)
- Tom's Midnight Garden (1999)
- Cotton Mary (1999), by Ismail Merchant
- Ladies Room (1999)
- Looking for Alibrandi (2000)
- One of the Hollywood Ten (2000)
- Christmas Glory 2000 (2000) TV movie
- Festival in Cannes (2001)
- The Farm (2001) TV miniseries
- Daniel Deronda (2002) TV miniseries
- Jeffrey Archer: The Truth (2002) TV movie
- Baltic Storm (2003)
- Il Ronzio delle mosche (2003) (The Buzz of the Flies) Italian
- Sotto falso nome (2004) (Under False Name) filmed Switzerland, dialogue French with Italian bit.
- Beyond the Sea (2004)
- Flightplan (2005)
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