Dorian Gray (actress)

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Italian actress (1931–2011)

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::summary Italian actress (1931–2011) ::

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FieldValue
nameDorian Gray
imageDorian Gray 58.JPG
captionGray in 1958
birth_nameMaria Luisa Mangini
birth_date
birth_placeBolzano, Kingdom of Italy
death_date
death_placeTorcegno, Trentino, Italy
occupationActress
yearsactive1951–1965
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| name = Dorian Gray | image = Dorian Gray 58.JPG | imagesize = | caption = Gray in 1958 | birth_name = Maria Luisa Mangini | birth_date = | birth_place = Bolzano, Kingdom of Italy | death_date = | death_place = Torcegno, Trentino, Italy | occupation = Actress | yearsactive = 1951–1965

Dorian Gray (born Maria Luisa Mangini; 2 February 1931 – 15 February 2011) was an Italian actress.

Biography

Gray made her stage debut in 1950. After five years she left the world of the theater and devoted herself to cinema.

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Dorian_Gray_in_Totò,_Peppino_e..._la_malafemmina.jpg" caption="Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina]]'' (1956)"] ::

The role she played most often in films was that of a seductive sexual character. She played the titular "bad girl" in Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina. She also appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni's Il grido. In 1957, she took part in Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini.

Death

On February 15, 2011, Gray committed suicide by gunshot at her home in Torcegno. She was 80 years old; some media, however, reported her age as 75, since she herself claimed to have been born in 1936.

Partial filmography

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Io_piaccio_09.png" caption="Gray in ''[[Io piaccio]]'' (1955)"] ::

References

References

  1. "Cinema: addio a Dorian Gray, si toglie la vita la "malafemmina" di Totò".
  2. "[https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_WFEVsGvhYC&dq=Dizionario+del+cinema+italiano:+Le+attrici&pg=PA175 Dictionary of italian cinema - Actresses]", by Lancia and Poppi, Gremese Ed. 2003

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