Maria Pia Calzone
Italian actress
Maria Pia Calzone (Italian pronunciation: [maˈriːa ˈpiːa kalˈtsoːne]; born 10 October 1967) is an Italian actress. She's best known for her role as Immacolata "Imma" Savastano, in the first season of Italian crime drama series, Gomorrah (2014).
She graduated from Italy's national film school, the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, and has a degree in Literature from the Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" in Naples. Calzone has won the Premio Riccardo Cucciolla in 2006 for Best Lead Actress at the Festival di Vasto San Salvo and the Premio Ippocampo for Best Actress at the Festival di Trieste Maremetraggio 2006.
Biography
Born in Reino, Campania, in the Province of Benevento but raised in Naples, she holds a bachelor's degree in literature with a specialization in contemporary art, and went on to graduate from the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome.
She made her Cinematography debut in 1988 with Lello Arena's Chiari di luna. In 2002 she played the part of the wife of leading actor Christian Bale in Kurt Wimmer US film Equilibrium.
In the 2000s she got her first leading roles: in 2005 she was the trans woman Desideria in the film Mother Nature (film) and in 2007 she played the Madonna in Giulio Base The Inquiry (2006 film).
Active in Television, she participated in Maurizio Ponzi E poi c'è Filippo, Giulio Base's Don Matteo 5 and Alberto Sironi's Ad occhi chiusi. In 2014, she played the female lead in Gomorrah (TV series),.
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