Adriana Asti
Adriana Asti (30 April 1931 – 31 July 2025) was an Italian stage, film and voice actress.
Adriana Asti

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- Name
- Adriana Asti
- Born
- 30 April 1931
- Birthplace
- Milan, Italy
- Died
- 31 July 2025
- Place of death
- Rome, Italy
- Occupation
- Actress
- Spouse
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Nationality
- Italy.
- Fields
- acting, theatre, radio broadcasting and film.
- Honours
- David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement, Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress, Nastro d'Argento Special and Premio Eleonora Duse.
- Languages
- Italian.
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Adriana Asti (30 April 1931 – 31 July 2025) was an Italian stage, film and voice actress.
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Adriana Asti (1931–2025) was an Italian actor, actress and film actor, among other activities. Born in Milan, the actor died in Rome. Adriana Asti was active in acting, dubbing and film.
Languages used include Italian. The actor received David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement, Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress and Nastro d'Argento Special, among others.
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Biography
Biography
The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is acting, theatre and radio broadcasting. Distinctions recorded are David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement, Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress, Nastro d'Argento Special and Premio Eleonora Duse.

Italian actress Adriana Asti
Italian magazine Radiocorriere
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Adriana Asti • Born — 30 April 1931 • Birthplace — Milan, Italy • Died — 31 July 2025 • Place of death — Rome, Italy • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1948–2018 • Spouse — Bernardo Bertolucci
Life and career
Life and career
Asti was born on 30 April 1931. She appeared in Dino Risi's short film Buio in sala, shot in 1948. She made her theatrical debut in 1951 in Plautus' Miles Gloriosus with the Bolzano stock company, and achieved her first success with a part in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, directed by Luchino Visconti, who later cast her in his films Rocco and His Brothers and Ludwig. On stage, she starred in Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw, Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, The Mistress of the Inn by Carlo Goldoni, and Three Men for Amalia. She won the SIAE prize in June 1990, and the Duse prize in December 1993. In 1999, she wrote and starred in Alcohol. In July 2000, she starred in French Ferdinand. Asti died on 31 July 2025, at the age of 94.
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• Illustration — Adriana Asti in Before the Revolution • You're on Your Own, by Mauro Bolognini (1959) • Rocco and His Brothers, by Luchino Visconti (1960) • Accattone, by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1961) • Disorder, by Franco Brusati (1962) • Before the Revolution, by Bernardo Bertolucci (1964) • The Visionaries, by Maurizio Ponzi (1968) • Run, Psycho, Run, by Brunello Rondi (1968) • Caprice Italian Style, by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1968) • Duet for Cannibals, by Susan Sontag (1969) • Metti, una sera a cena, by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi (1969) • Man of the Year, by Marco Vicario (1971) • My Darling Slave, by Giorgio Capitani (1972) • Le notti peccaminose di Pietro l'Aretino, by Manlio Scarpelli (1972) • I Nicotera, TV miniseries by Salvatore Nocita (1972) • Ludwig, by Luchino Visconti (1972) • Amore e ginnastica, by Luigi Filippo D'Amico (1973) • A Brief Vacation, by Vittorio De Sica (1973) • The Sensual Man, by Marco Vicario (1974) • The Phantom of Liberty, by Luis Buñuel (1974) • Down the Ancient Staircase, by Mauro Bolognini (1975) • Zorro, by Duccio Tessari (1975) • Weak Spot, by Peter Fleischmann (1975) • The Sex Machine, by Pasquale Festa Campanile (1975) • The Inheritance, by Mauro Bolognini (1976) • A Simple Heart, by Giorgio Ferrara (1977) • Black Journal, by Giovanni Narzisi (1977) • Maschio latino cercasi, by Mauro Bolognini (1977) • Stato interessante, by Sergio Nasca (1977) • Caligula, by Tinto Brass (1980) • Action, by Tinto Brass (1980) • Petomaniac, by Pasquale Festa Campanile (1983) • Chimère, by Claire Devers (1989) • The Handsome Priest, by Carlo Mazzacurati (1989) • Who Killed Pasolini?, by Marco Tullio Giordana (1995) • The Seventh Room, by Márta Mészáros (1995) • Bimba - È clonata una stella, by Sabina Guzzanti (2002) • The Best of Youth, by Marco Tullio Giordana (2003) • Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide, by Marco Tullio Giordana (2005) • Karol: The Pope, The Man, by Giacomo Battiato (2006) • Unforgivable, by André Téchiné (2011) • Pasolini, by Abel Ferrara (2014) • Diary of a Chambermaid, by Benoît Jacquot (2015) • A Woman's Name, by Marco Tullio Giordana (2018)
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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2025
Adriana Asti died on 31 July 2025.
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Milan.
Birth place
Rome.
Death place
Primary material
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reference work
- “Adriana Asti”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q374855: Adriana Asti
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Awards and nominations
• Award — Year — Nominated work — Category — Result • David di Donatello Awards — 1974 — David Special Award • Nastro d'Argento Awards — 1965 — Before the Revolution — Best Actress • 1974 — A Brief Vacation — Best Supporting Actress • 1977 — The Inheritance • 2004 — The Best of Youth — Best Actress • Tosca e altre due • 2015 — Special Nastro d'Argento • 2018 — A Woman's Name — Best Supporting Actress
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Notes from the source article
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- 1.Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Daniel. Who's Who In Contemporary World Theatre. Routledge. 14–15. 2002. 978-0-415-14162-8.
- 2.Elenco Artisti Settore Audiovisivo Rappresentati da Nuovo IMAIE (al 31/01/2014).
- 3.È morta a 94 anni l’attrice italiana Adriana Asti
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