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Giulietta Masina

1921 - 1994

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Giulia Anna "Giulietta" Masina (22 February 1921 – 23 March 1994) was an Italian film actress best known for her performances as Gelsomina in La Strada (1954) and Cabiria in Nights of Cabiria (1957), for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. Cinema historian Peter Bondanella described Masina's work as "masterful" and "unforgettable", and Charlie Chaplin, with whose work Masina's is often compared, called her "the actress who moved him most". Both La Strada and Nights of Cabiria won Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and were described as having been "inspired" by Masina's "humanity". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giulietta Masina has received more than 716,924 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Giulietta Masina is the 169th most popular actor (up from 192nd in 2019), the 439th most popular biography from Italy (up from 476th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Italian Actor.

Giulietta Masina is most famous for her role in Federico Fellini's 8½.

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  • 720k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Giulietta Masina ranks 169 out of 9,996Before her are Eli Wallach, Roberto Benigni, Audie Murphy, Martin Sheen, Fred Astaire, and Irene Papas. After her are Jean Seberg, Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Jeremy Irons, Fernandel, and Silvana Mangano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Giulietta Masina ranks 16Before her are John Rawls, Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Yves Montand, Hua Guofeng, Fahd of Saudi Arabia, and Joseph Beuys. After her are Sophie Scholl, Simone Signoret, Gunnar Nordahl, Paulo Freire, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and Peter Ustinov. Among people deceased in 1994, Giulietta Masina ranks 14Before her are Elias Canetti, Eugène Ionesco, Linus Pauling, Ayrton Senna, Burt Lancaster, and Andrei Chikatilo. After her are Kurt Cobain, Léon Degrelle, Melina Mercouri, Antônio Carlos Jobim, John Wayne Gacy, and Paul Feyerabend.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giulietta Masina ranks 439 out of 4,668Before her are Pope Symmachus (460), Salvatore Riina (1930), Roberto Benigni (1952), Parmigianino (1503), John Cabot (1450), and Pope Zosimus (400). After her are Petronius Maximus (396), Pope Hormisdas (450), Simonetta Vespucci (1453), Pope Victor III (1027), Pope Simplicius (420), and Pope Anastasius I (340).

Among ACTORS In Italy

Among actors born in Italy, Giulietta Masina ranks 10Before her are Gina Lollobrigida (1927), Marcello Mastroianni (1924), Monica Vitti (1931), Monica Bellucci (1964), Yves Montand (1921), and Roberto Benigni (1952). After her are Silvana Mangano (1930), Anna Magnani (1908), Franco Nero (1941), Giuliano Gemma (1938), Rudolph Valentino (1895), and Raffaella Carrà (1943).

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