Anna Galiena

Anna Galiena

Nascimento : 1954-12-22, Roma, Lazio, Italy

História

Anna Galiena (born 22 December 1954) is an Italian actress, best known to English-speaking audiences for her appearances in Le Mari de la coiffeuse, Jamón, jamón and Being Human. her youth, Galiena starred in numerous off and on-Broadway shows, including several revivals of Shakespeare plays. She had made over a dozen films, mainly in her native Italy before her role in Le Mari de la coiffeuse brought her to international attention. She went on to appear in Bigas Luna's Jamón, jamón and went on to make her mainstream Hollywood debut in the Bill Forsyth-directed Being Human starring Robin Williams. The film was, however, a massive flop. Since then, Galiena has worked in European cinema, where she is consistently in demand. With over 50 films and many television appearances to her credit, she currently has several films in production, including a prominent supporting role in the film Virgin Territory, starring Hayden Christensen and Mischa Barton. She stars alongside Joaquim de Almeida and Ben Gazzara in the thriller Christopher Roth. In 2007 she was a member of the jury at the 29th Moscow International Film Festival

Perfil

Anna Galiena
Anna Galiena
Anna Galiena

Filmes

Felicità
Improvvisamente Natale
Sposa in rosso
Lucrezia Madonia
CARRON - Codice d'Angelo
Graziella Carron
Decent People
La mère de Manon
Manon, 30 years old and 8 months pregnant, is a struggling singer. Consumed by her administrative issues and under finacial pressure, her relationship with Ludo cumbles and they don’t prepare for the birth of their child.
Despite the Fog
Laura
According to Interpol, over ten thousand refugees of minors without parental care are wandering today in Europe, half of which are on Italian roads. "Despite the Fog" is a movie story about one of them. In short: Ali-Musa Sarhan, a refugee whose parents drowned while traveling by rubber boat on the Italian coast in search of a better life, is accepted by family, husband and wife who have lost a child. They are trying to find solace in little Arab and a sort of replacement for their early deceased son, Mark. Valeria (Donatella Finokjaro) and Paolo (Giorgio Tirabasi) are increasingly confronted with resistance from the environment and their own family, who do not accept their decision to keep Muhammad - It is also a story of a world that is increasingly sinking into xenophobic fog.
An Almost Ordinary Summer
Giulietta
Two families meet for a marriage that neither want, and things take a turn when the respective patriarchs fall in love.
Loucas de Alegria
Luciana Brogi coniugata Morelli
Beatrice Morandini Valdirana tem transtorno de personalidade, gosta de fazer drama e se autodenomina condessa, além de conhecer Deus em sua intimidade. Donatella Morelli é uma jovem tímida e frágil que guarda um doloroso segredo. Ambas são internas de um hospital para mulheres com distúrbios mentais e são consideradas socialmente perigosas. Beatrice e Donatella desenvolvem uma improvável amizade, e fogem à procura de um pouco de felicidade no manicômio a céu aberto que é o mundo dos sãos.
Ninguém é salvo sozinho
Viola
Gaetano (Riccardo Scamarcio) e Delia (Jasmine Trinca) têm dois filhos e estão separados há pouco tempo. Durante um jantar tentam juntar as peças de uma relação despedaçada que há tempos foi também uma intensa história de amor. A raiva, a amargura e os ressentimentos dos dois vão se refletindo durante o jantar, mas, acima de tudo, tentam passar esta fase dolorosa.
Meu Verão na Provença
Irène
As férias de Adrien e Léa e seu irmãozinho, Théo, começam muito mal, com o pai confessando que pretende abandonar a família. Os três jovens vão viajar à casa do avô, que nunca conheceram antes. No início, o idoso é grosseiro e pouco compreensivo com os novos netos, mas, aos poucos, os adolescentes descobrem que o avô foi um homem libertário e acostumado aos costumes livres da geração hippie.
Casa & Bottega
Teresa
Stay Away from Me
Lorenza Bra
Jacopo has a serious problem. He may be a brilliant marriage guidance counsellor, but he can never manage to have a steady relationship for more than two weeks. And for good reason: since he was very young, Jacopo has been cursed and brought bad luck to every woman who has fallen in love with him. Really bad luck. Because of this, he has vowed to stay away from women, for their own good. But the moment he lays eyes on Sara at a friend’s birthday party, he is smitten. Despite his resistance, the two fall head over heels leading to back-to-back, laugh-out-loud moments of disaster! Sara will quickly learn the consequences of her choice as the limits of her love are put to the test.
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Self
Christopher Roth
Catherine Roth
A horror novelist begins to fear his stories may have a life of their own.
Ultimatum
Rachel
A young French couple deals with ramifications of world events on their relationship as Saddam Hussein threatens to launch SCUD missiles on Israel.
Mejor que Nunca
Clotilde
Isabel suffers a disorder after learning that her husband, due to his immaturity, falls in love with a young teenager. She will try to get over it and with the little help of her daughter, a fanatical psychotherapist who only tortures her, she decides to start over and finally enjoy a new life. Something that will lead her to meet a true gentleman...
Destiny Ride
Tante Louise
Une prostituée de luxe, un juge d'instruction arriviste, une journaliste idéaliste... Trois cultures différentes, trois êtres n'ayant pas les mêmes valeurs. A travers une histoire et un milieu où la vérité n'est pas toujours belle à connaître, l'amour que ces trois personnes éprouvent les uns pour les autres va devenir meurtrier.
Sleeping Around
Sara
A look at life through the lens of sexuality, in a world that has lost its soul and the ability to love. Ten stories of ten protagonists (from 20-45 years old) who live in a metropolis, not necessarily identifiable, in search of the meaning of their own existence. A bitter comedy that combines comic and paradoxical elements with the cruelty of everyday life. A whirl of encounters, sex, illness, drugs, loneliness and pain.
Território Virgem
The Abbess
No século XIV, Pampinea é a filha única de uma abastada e respeitada família que, devido à praga, está em ruínas. Gerbino ameaça confiscar sua casa em pagamento às dívidas de seu pai - e depois se oferece para casar-se com ela como alternativa a sua iminente ruína financeira. Pampinea, então, parte em retiro em um convento à espera de seu casamento. Porém, por trás de um véu de freira - e depois de um beijo secreto - ela se apaixona por Lorenzo, que trabalha nos jardins do convento. Lorenzo também se apaixona, mas não sabe quem lhe deu aquele beijo precioso.
Scrivilo sui muri
Carla
Sole, an university student bored of her daily routine, meets Pierpaolo and Alex and her life changes until she falls in love with one of them.
No way out - A broken love
Caterina Della Torre
After seven difficult years, Matteo Dell Torre withdraws his campaign from the crisis. But because of the work, he rarely sees with his wife, with children. When the case turned out to be imposed, the police accuse Matteo of murder and find 30 million of bad money on account of the company. Under the threat of business and marriage. Mateo will go to jail. In order to prove his innocence, he turns out to be incarcerated ...
Lezioni di volo
Pollo's mother
A pair of teen friends – known as "Chicken & Curry" because they are virtually inseparable – fail their high school finals and try to cover it by claiming that Curry is in the midst of an identity crisis that can only be solved by a visit to his ancestral homeland, India. While the ruse works wonderfully on their parents, this impromptu journey of self-discovery takes an unexpected detour when Curry locates his biological sister and remains captivated by the country he first despised, and Chicken falls for an older doctor working for Médecins Sans Frontières.
Guido, Who Challenged the Red Brigades
Silvia Rossa
Genoa, Italy, 24th of January 1979. Red Brigades' member Roberto Dura is waiting with two other comrades for trade unionist leader and factory worker Guido Rossa to leave his home to go to work. Three months earlier, Rossa had denounced a work colleague, Francesco Berardi, because he was distributing Red Brigade flyers inside the factory. Berardi was arrested and, after a fast tracked trial, was convicted to four and a half years. ....
Un amore su misura
Carla
Amore e libertà - Masaniello
Um Nome na Lista
Aida Padovani
O genial cineasta Orson Welles está em Roma para trabalhar como ator. Endeusado por todos, ele é um homem em crise, que acaba de terminar o casamento com Rita Hayworth. Apaixonado por histórias de suspense, Welles ouve a última palavra de um intérprete que acaba de ser assassinado: Nero. Acompanhado de seu motorista Tommaso, o diretor de “Cidadão Kane” começa a investigar aquela morte. Nas ruas, vielas e lugares muito perigosos da capital da Itália, os dois nem desconfiam que perigo que estão correndo. Querem descobrir quem é o assassino.
A Life in Suitcases
Madame Plens
Follows Tulse Luper as he is swept into the ill-fortuned tides of the 20th century and forced to spend his life in a succession of imprisonments.
The Do-Gooders
Laura
Three former bank robbers are meeting after 25 years...
Il veterinario
Olimpia
Gigi Garulli is a veterinarian who lives with his wife and two children in a beautiful villa. In addition to being a veterinarian, Gigi is also the quality manager at Sgnak, a pet food factory owned by his father-in-law. But when the factory, and in particular Gigi, are accused by consumers for a batch of spoiled morsels, trouble begins.
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
Madame Plens
The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world - 92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
Across the border
Agnese
Turin 1993. The architect Agnese is called to the home for war veterans where her ailing father lives. The doctor at the home has left his guest, a Bosnian refugee, on night duty with her father. The commanding officer of the veterans home, a colonel, has discovered the undocumented refugee, Reuf, and has had him arrested. Agnese, who would rather not get involved with refugees, becomes better acquainted with Reuf and is drawn into events which eventually take her to Bosnia. On this journey, she begins to recall her childhood directly after WWII. Experiences made during the two wars converge and the wheel of history turns, without failing to leave its mark.
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
Madame Plens
The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world - 92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
Guardiani delle nuvole
Donna Maddalena
Dirty Vivancos III
Amanda
Luxúria
Livia Mazzoni
Março de 1945. Asolo, Itália. Um carro aguarda do lado de fora. Livia (Anna Galiena), a sensual esposa de um oficial militar do alto escalão, entra sorrateiramente e o carro parte para Veneza, uma cidade devastada moralmente pela guerra. Lá, pretende encontrar seu jovem amante Helmut (Gabriel Garko), um tenente alemão atraentemente pervertido. Enquanto seus olhos percorrem a estrada, sua mente percorre excitantes lembranças de seus encontros secretos e sua violenta paixão. Quando chega a Veneza, porém, outra surpresa a aguarda...
Off Key
Rita
A trio of opera singers are reunited by a wedding ten years after their stormy breakup.
Vino Santo – Es lebe die Liebe, es lebe der Wein
Serafina Salvini
Half-Italian Gioia loves Max, but leaves her son's son to cheat her as a fiancé. When Mama invites the family to the Italian winery for Grandpa's 80th birthday, the feelings are on the table alongside pasta, pesto and vino, because Gioia happens to meet Max again ...
Bibo per sempre
Marisa
Love in the Mirror
Virginia
In 17th century France, a theater troupe is allowed by its patron to go to Paris to produce an erotic play. The head of the troupe dreams of fame while his wife, the leading actress, and a new leading girl fall for each other.
Falcone
Francesca Morvillo
Determinado a quebrar o reinado da máfia na Itália, Giovanni Falcone, um advogado corajoso, ousou desafiar a Cosa Nostra.
Para Sempre na Minha Vida
Eleonora
Após saber que o Estado pretende privatizar o colégio em que estudam, um grupo de estudantes decide entrar em greve e ocupá-lo, enfrentando a polícia. Entre eles está Silvio (Silvio Muccino), que está mais interessado em garotas do que nos comitês de política estudantil. Apesar das confusões decorrentes da ocupação da escola, e também da interferência de seus pais em sua vida, Silvio se esforça para encontrar o grande amor de sua vida.
Le coup du sort
In the French Basque Country, near Saint-Jean-les-Bains, young man Julien (Noriega) finds a corpse, buried with jewels, in an abandoned car near a ravine. Julien cannot resist the temptation and takes the jewels with him. He later learned from the press that the man in the car was killed. Maria (Galiena), the boarding lady who accommodates Julien, brings him into contact with a healer. Julien and Maria become lovers, cash in on the loot and flee. It is quite obvious that this does not lead to a happy ending and that the opportunistic amateur thief is confronted with professional criminals. Galiena, in particular, as an Italian hotel keeper, Maria, impresses in a beautiful drama written by Valérie Bonnier, Carlos Perez-Merinero, Luis Maria and Robert Valey.
My Brother's Gun
Madre
Based on the powerful novel by Ray Loriga. A young man and a young girl's lives are united under dramatic circumstances. He has just shot a security guard in the face who had accused him of robbing at a local mall. When he steals a car to escape, he meets the girl who, regardless of her suicidal inclinations, is attracted by her new companion. Together they embark on a journey in search for a true meaning in their lives.
O Sedutor
Elena Webb
O dramaturgo de sucesso Felix Webb tem uma nova peça, 'The Hit Man', em ensaio. Dirigido por seu velho amigo Humphrey, já está sendo saudado como uma obra-prima; mas Felix não pode desfrutar de seu sucesso. Ele se apaixonou apaixonadamente por Hilary, uma bela e jovem atriz, e está se preparando para abandonar sua família perfeita, sua esposa Elena e três filhos animados. Sua situação intolerável fica ainda mais complicada quando Humphrey coloca Hilary como um dos protagonistas de 'The Hit Man'. Entra Robin Grange, um jovem ator carismático de Hollywood fazendo sua estréia no teatro de Londres. Robin é atraente, charmoso e perigoso, e logo se intromete na vida de todos. Ele se insinua com o elenco e, rapidamente entendendo o dilema de Félix, começa a tecer sua teia de travessuras. Ele sugere que se ele fosse seduzir Elena, ela seria distraída do caso de Felix, recuperaria seu auto-respeito e talvez até se separasse voluntariamente do marido infiel a quem ela se apega ...
3 - Tre
Baroness Chiara del Serchio
At the end of the 18th century, a couple of libertine Tuscan aristocrats welcome in their villa (and into their bedroom) an handsome young revolutionary, hoping to rekindle their marriage.
Três Vidas e Uma Só Morte
Maria Gabri - Colosso "Tania la Corse"
Um homem que se divide em quatro nomes e quatro personalidades que nos coloca em quatro diferentes histórias de amor, luxúria e crime.
Unpredictable Nature of the River
Louise de Saint-Agnan
Nobleman Jean-Francois de la Plaine is exiled to serve as governor of a West African colony.
Question of Luck
Marie
Julio is at a turning point in his life. His fish farm business has collapsed, and his attractive fiancee, Concha is pushing Julio to get married. But Julio seems strangely unenthusiastic about marrying into Concha’s affluent family lottery business. Things get complicated when he finds a fortune in jewels...
Moisés
Ptira
Moisés foi um homem comum chamado por Deus para libertar seu povo, os Israelitas. Sua missão, libertá-los da escravidão no Egito e levá-los para Canaã, a terra prometida. Quando os israelitas correram risco de captura pelo exército do Faraó, Deus dividiu o Mar Vermelho para que Moisés e os que o acompanhavam pudessem fugir. Mais tarde durante a dura jornada, Deus proferiu através de Moisés, Os Dez Mandamentos, a lei divina.
La scuola
prof.ssa Majello
In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.
Mario and the Magician
Rachel Fuhrmann
The Twenties: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time. The Fuhrmann's have to realize the upcoming and growing fascism and their children are fascinated by a magician visiting the town. Soon nothing is as usual. The times are changing ...
Les femmes et les enfants d'abord
Rose
Rose was a brilliant student of Fine Arts. Then, she gave up everything for a "beautiful marriage". Now in her thirties, she is experiencing more and more difficulties in her life, which is both materially overprotected and difficult with her three children and an increasingly absent husband. She breaks down, cracks up and tries to imagine how she could broach the subject with her husband before it's too late. To her great amazement, it was Didier who, one evening before going to visit friends, announced that he was leaving and that he had already rented a small studio. After the shock, Rose goes to her father, an old Spanish anarchist, who gives her back the taste for values she thought she had lost.
Segredos da Vida
Beatrice
Cinco personagens, todos chamados Hector, atravessam a história buscando seu lugar no mundo. Seja no tempo das Cavernas, no Império Romano ou na moderna Nova York, a vontade é a mesma: viver o sentimento de pertencer a algum lugar buscando relacionamentos que deem sentido à vida.
Senza pelle
Gina
The lives of a young mother and her boyfriend are turned upside down when she unknowingly becomes the focus of the attentions of a depressed and mentally unstable young man.
The Last Writer
Fanny
Jacques asks a public writer to compose love letters for a beautiful stranger that he pretends he has just met.
The Great Pumpkin
Cynthia Diotallevi
An epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out of this mistake begins the difficult journey towards being cured.
Old Rascal
Rose
A story of a modest ordinary crook trying his best to turn his boring life into an affordable extraordinary adventure.
L'Atlantide
Amira
A mythical land who must be discover. Or invented. In an impressive library, two old men. One is a great Polish archaeologist at the end of his work. The second- his best friend. They are masters of a substantial slice of human history: legendary Atlantis. It is refuge and masterpiece, propriety and treasure.
Jamon Jamon
Mère de Silvia
Jose Luis trabalha na fábrica de roupas íntimas comandada por seus pais. Sua namorada, Sylvia vem de uma família em dificuldades financeiras, e por isso é rejeitada pela rica família de Jose Luis. Quando ela engravida, o casamento parece ser a única saída possível, mas os pais do jovem, preocupados em vê-lo casado a uma moça pobre, contratam o sedutor Raul, um modelo de cuecas e toureiro, para seduzi-la.
La viuda del capitán Estrada
Luisa Estrada
After the Second World War, the United Nations has declared the blockade of Franco's Spain. In this historical context, for a time little known, lies the story of the widow of a Spanish army captain.
O Marido da Cabeleireira
Mathilde
Antoine sempre foi fascinado pelo toque delicado de uma cabeleireira, pelo perfume sedutor e pela figura de uma mulher com um peito opulento; além disso, ele sabia que se casaria com uma, cumprindo seu sonho de um amor perfeito e idealizado.
Dias de Clichy
Edith
Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.
Willy Signori e vengo da lontano
Alessandra
Willy is involved in a fatal car accident. Willy takes on the responsibility of supporting the dead man's pregnant girlfriend and the child, after it's birth.
L'Argent
Baronne Sandorf
Saccard, ready to use all means, however immoral or illegal, tries to gain back the fortune he lost three years ago. All involving business and the exchange market. He has a loyal accomplice, an indifferent son, maybe-friends, partners and investors and of course, enemies.
La Travestie
Nicole is a female attorney who is frustrated with the male-dominated world of provincial law. She embezzles money from a law firm and travels to Paris where she disguises herself as a man in hopes it will make a difference in her life and career. Nicole has two lesbian affairs and becomes a pimp for one of the women. She also has an affair with a man who indicates that he doesn't want a serious relationship. Nicole's loneliness leads her to the affairs as she continues the downward spiral into schizophrenia in this depressing psychological drama.
Rorret
Barbara Liegi
Mr. Rorret is the owner of a cinema called "The Peeping Tom" which shows a constant stream of horror films. Rorret dates women from the audience and then kills them, taking sadistic pleasure from their expressions of terror. This film is apparently a well-filmed homage to "Peeping Tom", with nods to "Psycho" and "Strangers on a Train".
L'estate sta finendo
Sandra
15-year-old Giuliana doesn't want to spend the summer with her rich mother, so—without a word—she leaves with Romeo, the son of the janitor of her building, embarking on a backpacking trip through Italy. Her divorced father is worried and decides to go in search of his daughter.
Sweets from a Stranger
Isa
A serial killer is terrifying the prostitutes in a big Italian city. After few barbaric murdering four prostitutes Lena, Angela, Nadine and Stella decide to unify and try to self-defend themselves. The police and all the other prostitutes agree with the four and the hunting is open. Who is the cruel killer?
Farewell Moscow
Hotel Colonial
Francesca
Marco Veniera goes to Bogota, Columbia to find his brother, Luca who supposedly committed suicide. In his search, he meets fiery and exotic Irene Costa, who leads him into the depths of the Amazon jungle. But it's every man for himself. And brotherly love turns to hate.
Puro cashmere
Marika
Giuliano, kindergarten teacher, goes to his ex's birthday, meets Liliana and falls in love with her.
Italian Fast Food
S&M Client
Down There in the Jungle
Gloria
Nothing Underneath
Diana
Thriller in Milan, Italy, where a serial killer uses scissors to assassinate top-models. A Yellowstone park ranger, from Usa, arrives in the city to protect his sister, but she has vanished. The guy will meet a lot of people and will know the (sometimes dangerous) world of international jet-set. But soon the killer will search for him too...