Maria Pia Calzone

Maria Pia Calzone (; born 10 October 1967) is an Italian actress. She's best known for her role as Immacolata "Imma" Savastano, in the first season of Italian crime drama series, Gomorrah.

She graduated from Italy's national film school, the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, and has a degree in Literature from the Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" in Naples. Calzone has won the Premio Riccardo Cucciolla in 2006 for Best Lead Actress at the Festival di Vasto San Salvo and the Premio Ippocampo for Best Actress at the Festival di Trieste Maremetraggio 2006.

She made her Cinematography debut in 1988 with Lello Arena's Chiari di luna. In 2002 she played the part of the wife of leading actor Christian Bale in Kurt Wimmer US film Equilibrium.

In the 2000s she got her first leading roles: in 2005 she was the trans woman Desideria in the film Mother Nature (film) and in 2007 she played the Madonna in Giulio Base The Inquiry (2006 film).

Active in Television, she participated in Maurizio Ponzi E poi c'è Filippo, Giulio Base's Don Matteo 5 and Alberto Sironi's Ad occhi chiusi. In 2014, she played the female lead in Gomorrah (TV series).

In October 2015 she was in theaters with Io che amo solo te adapted from Luca Bianchini's best seller and directed by Marco Ponti, where she plays Ninella Torres.

In 2015 he also takes part in the video clip of the unreleased Non ho che te by Luciano Ligabue.

In November 2016 she was in theaters with La cena di Natale, sequel to Io che amo solo te, also based on the Novel of the same name by Luca Bianchini and directed by Marco Ponti, again in the role of Ninella. In 2016 she began recording episodes for the TV series Sirene, which aired the following year on Rai 1.

In 2017 she participated in two films: Napoli velata by Ferzan Özpetek and I peggiori by Vincenzo Alfieri. In 2018 she was directed by Carlo Verdone in Blessed Madness, as well as a lot of theater.

Since June 9, 2020, she has been a founding member and board member of the National Union of Theatre and Audiovisual Performers (UNITA). She is also an ambassador for Telethon.

Between April and May 2023 she took part, with Antonio Folletto, in the filming of the movie SottoCoperta, produced by Minerva Pictures, Tile Storytellers, Bronx Film and Flicktales, directed by Simona Cocozza selected at the Bif&st in Bari.

Filmography Film

Television