Marcello Mastroianni

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Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Mastroianni in 1958
Birth name	Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni
Born	September 28, 1924 Fontana Liri, Italy
Died	December 19, 1996 Paris, Ile-de-France
Years active	1947–1997
Spouse(s)	Flora Carabella (1926–death)
Notable roles	1960 La Dolce Vita

Best Leading Actor 1963 Divorce, Italian Style 1964 Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (September 28, 1924 – December 19, 1996) was an Academy Award nominated Italian film actor.

Born in Fontana Liri, a small village in the Apennines, Mastroianni grew up in Turin and Rome. During World War II he was interned in a Nazi prison, but he escaped and hid in Venice.

In 1945 he started working for a film company and began taking acting lessons. His film debut was in I Miserabili (from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables) in 1947.

He soon became a major international star, starring in Big Deal on Madonna Street; and in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita with Anita Ekberg in 1960, where he played a disillusioned and self-loathing tabloid columnist who spends his days and nights exploring Rome's high society.

Mastroianni followed La Dolce Vita with another signature role, that of a film director who, amidst self-doubt and troubled love affairs, finds himself in a creative block while making a movie in Fellini's 8½.

Mastroianni was married to Italian actress Flora Carabella (1926 - 1999) from 1948 until his death. They had one child together, Barbara.

He also had a daughter, Chiara Mastroianni, with his longtime lover, the actress Catherine Deneuve; both Flora and Catherine were at his bedside when he died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 72.