Maddalena Crippa

Maddalena Crippa (born 4 September 1957) is an Italian film, television and stage actress. She won a David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Academy Awards nominee Three Brothers by Francesco Rosi.

Life and career Born in Besana in Brianza, Crippa started to act at young age in an amateur dramatics with her father and brothers. At 17 years old, at exams to attend the drama school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, the director Giorgio Strehler was impressed by her acting skills and gave her a role in his adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's Il campiello (1975). From then, Crippa started a busy career in theater, working among others with Giancarlo Cobelli, Luca Ronconi and her husband Peter Stein. She is also active in TV-series and in films.

Miniseries 1976: La casa nova of Carlo Goldoni, director Luigi Squarzina 1976: I due gemelli veneziani of Carlo Goldoni, director Luigi Squarzina 1976: Così per gioco, regia di Leonardo Cortese

Filmography 1976: Aut aut. Cronaca di una rapina, directed by Silvio Maestranzi 1981: Three Brothers, directed by Francesco Rosi 1982: No Thanks, Coffee Makes Me Nervous, directed by Lodovico Gasparini 1985: Juke Box, directed by Valerio Jalongo 1986: Aurelia, directed by Giorgio Molteni 1987: L'attrazione, directed by Mario Gariazzo 1990: Non più di uno, directed by Roberto Pelosso 1993: Berlin '39, directed by Sergio Sollima 1998: Giochi d'equilibrio, directed by Amedeo Fago 1998: Inspector Rex, episode ... e tutto ricomincia 1998: Film, directed by Laura Belli 1999: Viol@, directed by Donatella Maiorca 2000: Onorevoli detenuti, directed by Giancarlo Planta 2003: Household Accounts, directed by Tonino Cervi 2008: Appuntamento a ora insolita, directed by Stefano Coletta 2011: In carne e ossa, directed by Christian Angeli 2016: Io non mi arrendo, directed by Enzo Monteleone 2018: Forgive Us Our Debts, directed by Antonio Morabito 2019: Lectura Ovidii, directed by Davide Cavuti 2021: The Peacock's Paradise, directed by Laura Bispuri