Regina Bianchi

Regina Bianchi (1 January 1921 – 5 April 2013) was an Italian stage and film actress.

Life and career Born in Lecce as Regina D'Antigny, she was the daughter of two theatre actors. Forced by the fascist phobia of foreign cultures to change her surname, she adopted the surname of her paternal grandmother.

At age 16, she entered the stage company of Raffaele Viviani and, that year, debuted in the comedy play Campagna napoletana, in the leading role of Reginella. and she appeared as Anna, the mother of Mary, in Franco Zeffirelli's television miniseries Jesus of Nazareth in 1977.

In 1996, she was awarded Grand Officer of the Italian Republic for artistic merits. She died at 92 in her home in Rome.

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