Nicoletta BraschiFilmography

Born:: August 10, 1960 in Cesena, Italy
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Italian actress Nicoletta Braschi is best known to international audiences for her collaborations with her husband, actor and director Roberto Benigni, and with American director Jim Jarmusch. A fine-boned beauty with a particular talent for portraying long-suffering women, Braschi first worked...Read More

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The Tiger and the Snow

Crew: Producer

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Jean Reno, Amid Farid

Synopsis: A love-struck poet travels into the heart of wartime Iraq in hopes of rescuing the woman he loves in Academy award-winning director Roberto Benigni's affecting tale of love and devotion. A kind poet and father to his daughters, a respected lecturer and literary figure to his students, and a Read More

10/15/05
Mi Piace Lavorare (Mobbing)

Actors: Nicoletta Braschi, Camille Dugay Comencini, Marina Buoncristiani, Roberta Celea, Assunta Cestaro

Synopsis: A woman is forced to stand up for herself and her co-workers in order to restore respect to the workplace in this drama. Anna (Nicoletta Braschi) works in the sales department of a large manufacturing concern; she's a single mother, often finding it difficult to meet the demands of her job and Read More

2004
Pinocchio

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Kim Rossi Stuart, Carlo Giuffré

Synopsis: Academy Award-winner Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio. In his usual fashion, Benigni directs and stars, this time as the little puppet boy made out of wood. The familiar story begins as a log of pinewood falls Read More

12/25/02
Life Is Beautiful

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bustric, Marisa Paredes

Synopsis: In this WW II tragicomedy, famed Italian funnyman Roberto Benigni (The Monster) portrays Guido, who moves during the '30s from the country to a Tuscan town, where he is entranced by schoolteacher Dora (Nicoletta Braschi, Benigni's real-life wife). Dora likes Guido, but she remains faithful to her Read More

12/20/97
Ovosodo

Actors: Edoardo Gabbriellini, Malcolm Lunghi, Matteo Campus, Alessio Fantozzi, Pietro Fornaciari

Synopsis: In this bittersweet coming-of-age comedy, seven-year-old Piero (Matteo Campus) lives in Livorno, a city along the coast of Tuscany, in a low-rent shantytown the locals call "Ovosodo" (which literally translates as "hard boiled eggs"). Piero is forced to grow up at an early age after the death of Read More

1997
Afirma Pereira

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis: This drama, set in 1938, chronicles a month in the life of the Portuguese journalist Pereira. He is first seen as a lonely, widowed, and overweight editor of the culture page of a second-rate Lisbon newspaper. Earlier in his career, he had been a news reporter. Pereira is fascinated with old Read More

1996
Pasolini: Un Delitto Italiano

Actors: Carlo DeFilippi, Nicoletta Braschi, Giulio Scarpati, Massimo De Francovich

Synopsis: Pier Paolo Pasolini was a beloved Italian filmmaker, poet and novelist whose murder in 1975 threw the whole nation into shock. This drama attempts to document the killing and the aftermath while exploring the true motives for the killing. The film opens as the police are in hot pursuit of a car Read More

1995
The Monster

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Michel Blanc, Dominique Lavanant, Jean-Claude Brialy, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: Grossly mistaken identity provides the impetus in this Italian farce. Loris is an anti-social fellow with a high sex drive. During a party he is pointed towards an "easy mark." Unfortunately he approaches the wrong woman. When he discovers his mistakes, he nervously apologizes for the attempted Read More

1994
Son of the Pink Panther

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Herbert Lom, Claudia Cardinale, Debrah Farentino, Jennifer Edwards

Synopsis: After the death of Peter Sellers in 1980, writer/director Blake Edwards assembled a new "Pink Panther" film from outtakes of Sellers as Inspector Clouseau from previous movies in the series (the result was called The Trail of the Pink Panther) and later made two attempts to revive the series with Read More

1993
Johnny Stecchino

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Paolo Bonacelli, Franco Volpi

Synopsis: Comedian Roberto Benigni wrote and directed this Italian farce, in which he stars as Dante, a bus driver who is the exact double of the infamous gangster Johnny Toothpick (Benigni again). After Dante meets Johnny's girlfriend Maria (Nicoletta Braschi), he travels to her Palermo villa, where it Read More

10/9/92
La Domenica Specialmente

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Chiara Caselli, Ivano Marescotti, Ornella Muti

Synopsis: Three very odd relationships provide the basis for this thought-provoking Italian anthology that is overseen by director Bernardo Bertolucci. The first tale, "The Blue Dog" centers on a barber who becomes the fixation of a mysteriously devoted dog with an unusual blue spot upon his head. In Read More

1991
The Sheltering Sky

Actors: John Malkovich, Debra Winger, Campbell Scott, Jill Bennett, Timothy Spall

Synopsis: From director Bernardo Bertolucci, The Sheltering Sky is a filmed adaptation of the novel of the same name by Paul Bowles. Debra Winger and John Malkovich star as Kit and Port Moresby, a married American couple who globetrot to North Africa in the late '40s with the hopes of re-sparking their love Read More

10/12/90
Mystery Train

Actors: Masatoshi Nagase, Youki Kudoh, Nicoletta Braschi, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Cinqué Lee, Elizabeth Bracco, Joe Strummer, Rufus Thomas

Synopsis: Written and directed by the ever-unpredictable Jim Jarmusch, Mystery Train is comprised of three short anecdotes involving foreign tourists in Tennessee. Each story is set in a fleabag Memphis hotel which has been redressed as a "tribute" to Elvis Presley. Story #1 involves two Japanese tourists Read More

11/17/89
Il Piccolo Diavolo

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Walter Matthau, Nicoletta Braschi, John Lurie, Stefania Sandrelli

Synopsis: Father Maurice (Walter Matthau) is called on to perform an exorcism of a demon from a fat lady in this offbeat comedy. What emerges is Giuditta (Roberto Benigni) a narcissistic, fun-loving devil with a penchant for nonsensical sayings, and the devil attaches himself to Father Maurice for a series Read More

10/14/88
Down by Law

Actors: Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Ellen Barkin

Synopsis: Jim Jarmusch follows his groundbreaking Stranger Than Paradise with another rambling, character-driven film with a twisted sense of humor. Set in a seedy New Orleans summer, Down By Law details the meeting of three unlikely convicts and their just as unlikely escape. Zack (Tom Waits) is an Read More

9/20/86