Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress seen in “Fanfan la Tulipe”, has died, we learn from BFM TV. She was 95 years old.
[Mis à jour le 16 janvier 2023 à 13h42] Italian cinema is in mourning. Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress and photographer, died on January 16, 2023, we learn from BFM TV. She was 95 years old. The general public knows her more particularly for her film career in the 1950s and 1960s: she was revealed to spectators in “Fanfan la Tulipe” by Christian-Jaque (1952) opposite Gérard Philippe, where she played Adeline La Franchise .
Born on July 4, 1927, Gina Lollobrigida grew up in a modest working-class family forced to live in Rome. She first became known for her figure, participating in several beauty contests before embarking on the cinema. We were able to discover her in 1946 in “L’Aigle Noir”, before she acquired notoriety in “Fanfan la Tulipe” then “Pain, Amour etfantasy” and its sequel.
The legendary actress was then able to play with the greatest actors in Hollywood, such as Franck Sinatra, Humphrey Bogart or Sean Connery. Gina Lollobrigida is notably known worldwide thanks to her role in “Stronger than the devil” then “Trapeze”. She also played Esmeralda in “Notre-Dame de Paris” by Jean Delannoy (1956)
End of career in the 1970s
Gina Lollobrigida put a brutal brake on her career in the 1970s, especially after her divorce in 1968 from Milko Škofič, which caused her to lose her manager. She definitively stopped filming in 1973 and embarked on a new passion, photography. However, she appeared punctually thereafter, notably at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1986 where she was president of the jury. She was also made Knight of the Legion of Honor and Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.
After a career in the world of cinema and the arts, Gina Lollobrigida embarked on politics in the 1990s. She notably ran for the European elections on the list of the Democratic Party, before appearing more recently on the list “Sovereign and popular Italy” for the senatorial elections.