Margaret Mazzantini

Margaret Mazzantini (born 27 October, 1961) is an Italian writer and actress.^[1] She became a film, television and stage actor, but is best known as a writer.

Early life

Mazzantini was born in Dublin, Ireland to Carlo Mazzantini, an Italian writer and artist, and Anne Donnelly, an Irish artist. She spent her childhood around Europe, Spain, and Tangier, until the family settled in Tivoli. In 1982 she graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome.

Career

acting

She began her acting career in the early eighties

writing

Her first work, Il catino di zinco (1994) was a Premio Campiello finalist. She won the Strega Prize with the novel Non ti muovere in 2002. Afilm from the book, directed by her husband Sergio Castellitto, was released in 2004.

Personal life

She married Sergio Castellitto in 1987. They have four children, Pietro (b. 1992), Maria (b. 1997), Anna (b. 2001) and Cesare (b. 2006). She lives in Rome.

In 2003, she was awarded the title of Knight Order of Merit of the Italian Republic on the initiative of President of the Republic.

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