What will I leave behind in the end? What I have sown: news about myself, signs of life.
That’s what he was talking about less than a month ago Maria Rosaria Homageactress (and not only) who passed away today at the age of 67 years old.
“Life is a stage of which you were queen,” writes Federico Mollicone, President of the Chamber’s Culture Commission, to remember her.
The artist born in 1957, Neapolitan but who had lived in Rome for years, had a fifty-year career behind him on TV (great success on Rai with Very nice songat 17, with Pippo Baudo), cinema (awarded in Venice for her performance as Oriana Fallaci in Walesa – The Man of Hope), but also radio, theatre, books, covers. Sick for a long time, now the Gift he stopped fighting.
Dear MariaRosaria. You left us. – the announcement that appeared on the Instagram profile – You have started your new journey towards the spirituality that you loved so much. You were an affectionate, enlightening, present friend. Beautiful and cultured woman. My little dogs will also miss you so much, to whom you said, give a kiss from Aunt Maro’ RIP”.
Illness was the cause of Maria Rosaria Omaggio’s death
The actress has worked in 50 plays, 29 films and 18 television dramas in her career. Her most famous interpretation is perhaps that of Oriana Fallaci in Walesa – The Man of Hopea role in the film by Polish director Andrzej Wajda which earned him the Pasinetti Award at the Venice Film Festival.
After dozens of films, theater shows, TV series, written books, shows and directed operas, the long one has arrived illness (on which there is no further information) which slowed down its progress and caused his departure.
From covers to UNICEF: the career and films of Maria Rosaria Omaggio
The general public got to know the 17-year-old Maria Rosaria Homage (“About me I lied at the auditions, I said I was 20”) thanks to Great songa popular Rai programme from the 70s. The actress and writer then appeared three times on the Italian cover of Playboyfor the first time at the age of 19. Since 2005 she had become a “Goodwill Ambassador” of the United Nations (that is, a person who supports a specific cause, in her case childhood, on the basis of his or her notoriety) and even before that a federal instructor of taiji quan, a Chinese martial art.
In 1976, again at the age of 19, he also made his cinema debut with Rome a mano armata e Anti-theft team, alongside Maurizio Merli and Tomas Milian. Between film interpreted Ass and shirt by Pasquale Festa Campanile, To gamble by Cinzia TH Torrini, The Adventures of the Incredible Hercules by Luigi Cozzi, It was a dark and stormy night… by Alessandro Benvenuti, Guido who challenged the Red Brigades by Giuseppe Ferrara, Looking at the stars by Stefano Calvagna, L’ave maria by Ninì Grassia.
On TV he has participated in numerous variety shows and dramas, from Great song To Dear Teacher 2, Mafia Women, The team, Don Matteo 5. A Oriana Fallaciwho became “his character”, Maria Rosaria HomageHe also provided his voice on radio and in audiobooks Anger and pride, If you are born a woman e Pasolini, an uncomfortable man.
In the theatre he created and interpreted Oriana’s words in concerta show broadcast on Rai5 and RaiPlay and also on stage in New York at the end of January 2020. The Rai1 film Saturday, Sunday and Mondayfrom De Filippo’s comedy, directed by Edoardo De Angelis with Sergio Castellitto, in which she plays Aunt Memè, won the 2022 Nastro d’argento as best TV movie. Among her latest shows Home Planet Earth: a journey through words, images and music from the West and the East to communicate that Planet Earth is our home and above all that we are an integral part of it.
Maria Rosaria Omaggio’s private life
In life Maria Rosaria Homage she had a husband and three important companions. She also talked about it in her last interview, given on June 7th:
I only married the first, Salvatore Vanacore, an entertainment impresario I met in Great song. We stayed together for 14 years. The other years were cohabitations. I am for quality, not quantity. Now unfortunately I am no longer in love, I live alone. Since when, I don’t know. What didn’t work with them? A man really likes his woman to be dependent. I wasn’t.– Maria Rosaria Last homage to Corriere della Sera
The biggest regret of the actress’s life was not having children, as she herself confessed.
I did everything to get pregnant, including uterine surgery. At 25 I lost my mother (her father, a gynecologist, had lost her at 15, ed.). I still had Antonio, my older brother, a doctor, but he recently passed away due to lymphoma. Today I only have a 46 year old nephew and the role of “goodwill ambassador” for Unicef children.
On social media, by those who knew her, Maria Rosaria is remembered as a “woman of rare elegance”, “spontaneous”, “of great class and sensitivity”.
A sportswoman, her books deal with ecstasy, mediumship, divination, alchemy, even ufology. She believed that “energy is matter” and that “balance is the art of opposites.” From her stories emerge her passion for India and for meditation and her love for organic markets: she was a vegetarian. She loved holidays in Tuscany and was fond of apple pie, as a friend of hers recalls on her social networks:
You always greeted me by saying “hello my friend”, an intense greeting as you always were. Yes, you were an important, passionate, determined, demanding, concrete woman.
I funerals Of Maria Rosaria Homage will take place tomorrow (Tuesday 2 July) at 3.30 pm in Rome, in the parish of San Giuseppe al Trionfale.
