Sabrina Ferilli blows out 60 candles. Sense of humour, natural sympathy, Roman accent, passion – on the left – for politics, have always made her one of the most loved actresses, also capable, which is rare, of conveying the sympathies and admiration of men and women.
Her other strange passion, for Roma, led her to a historic bet: ‘I’ll strip if they win the Scudetto’. The year was 2001: the victory arrived and so did the striptease, in front of 100 thousand people in the Circus Maximus.
Her career began more than 35 years ago. Sabrina Ferilli, who is born in Fiano Romano on June 28, 1964, she failed the audition for admission to the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Cinecitta’ (“they told me I was ‘too Italian'”, she would explain years later), but with tenacity she began with the first parts. Her debut was with Candies from a Stranger by Franco Ferrini in 1986, but it was Ferreri, choosing her in Diario di un vice in ’93, who discovered her and Paolo Virzì who definitively launched her the following year in one of the most important films of his career today. career, The good life.
Arthouse cinema discovered it – then came August Holidays, Strangled Lives, You Laugh – but then painfully abandoned it. Ferilli sins, and she has many times denounced the all-Italian anomaly of at least a few years ago, of making TV and this doesn’t suit the authors. Cinema then becomes comedies that strengthen its popularity such as Neri Parenti’s cinepanettoni (Christmas in Love, Christmas in New York, Christmas in Beverly Hills, Christmas in Cortina), A Free Wheel by Vincenzo Salemme, Eccezziunale really 2 by Carlo Vanzina . Except for Virzi’ who calls her again for The Whole Life Ahead and Sorrentino for The Great Beauty.
Lots of TV, a happy start to Mai dire gol in ’96, the same year as the Sanremo Festival 1996 called by Pippo Baudo and then Beauty and the Beast in 2001 with Lucio Dalla and then in 2004 with Giorgio Panariello, but above all they are the TV drama characters who tell it. Popular series such as Commesse, such as the cycle of the three women in homage to Anna Magnani, such as the saga with Sofia Loren or Dalida, and then again Anna ei cinque, Two and a half fools with Claudio Bisio, Caldo Criminale with Gabriel Garko and the latest Let’s kiss your hands. In Sabrina Ferilli’s eclectic career there is also the theatre, which began at the Sistina with Alleluja brava gente from ’94 directed by Garinei and Giovannini and then again in the Roman theater Un Pair of Wings and Rugantino and most recently La Presidente , directed by Gigi Proietti.
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