^ "Screen: Comedy Vehicle For Laura Antonelli:Bette Davis in New TV Movie".^ "Screen: Lustful Sicilians:Sex Dominates Malice in Comic 'Malizia' The Cast".^ "Film: Comedy:'How Funny Can Sex Be?' Opens at Trans-Lux East".^ "Lutto nel mondo del cinema: morta Laura Antonelli".
^ (in Italian) Laura Antonelli sarà risarcita Troppo lungo il processo per droga La Repubblica accessed 22 June 2015.^ Mort de Laura Antonelli, star italienne des années 1970 et ex-femme de Jean-Paul Belmondo AlloCiné 22 June 2015.^ "Laura Antonelli: She was the sultry star of Italian sex comedies"."Laura Antonelli Dies at 73 Popular, and Seductive, Italian Actress". ^ "Laura Antonelli, Italian Actress and Sex Symbol, Dies at 73".Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962–1973. ^ a b c Lisanti, Tom Paul, Louis (2002).Disperatamente Giulia (1989) (miniseries) as Carmen Milkovich.Gli indifferenti (1988) ( miniseries) as Lisa.Madame Juliette ("Madam, it's eight o'clock")Ĭarla De Dominicis / Supermarket client / The Princess Guest with a Beehive Hairdo at the Artusis Īntonelli died in Ladispoli on 22 June 2015, aged 73, from a heart attack. In 2006, the Italian court of appeals ruled in favor of Antonelli and ordered the Ministry of Justice to pay the actress 108,000 euros. She spent ten years appealing the conviction, which was eventually overturned. She was subsequently convicted of possession and dealing and sentenced to house arrest. On 27 April 1991, cocaine was found during a police raid on Antonelli's home. From 1972 to 1980, she was the companion of actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. She won the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Award, Nastro d'Argento, in 1974 for Malizia.Īntonelli was married to publisher Enrico Piacentini but they divorced. Antonelli's final film role was in the sequel Malizia 2000 (1991), following which she retired. From 1986 she mostly worked on Italian television series. Later, she appeared in Passione d'Amore (1981). In Wifemistress, a romance film of 1977, she played a repressed wife experiencing a sexual awakening. She worked in more serious films, as well, including Luchino Visconti's last film, The Innocent (1976). She appeared in a number of sex farces such as Till Marriage Do Us Part/ Mio Dio come sono caduta in basso!. Other roles followed her breakthrough came in 1973's Malizia. In 1965, she made her first feature-film appearance in Le sedicenni, although her performance went uncredited. Career Īntonelli's earliest engagements included Italian advertisements for Coca-Cola. She moved to Rome, where she became a secondary-school gym teacher and was able to meet people in the entertainment industry, who helped her find modelling jobs. Setting aside ambitions to make a career in mathematics, she graduated as a gymnastics instructor. I became very good, especially in rhythmical gym, which is a kind of dance." They felt I was ugly, clumsy, insignificant and they hoped I would at least develop some grace. In an interview for The New York Times, she recalled, "My parents had made me take hours of gym classes during my teens. Antonelli had a childhood interest in mathematics, but as a teenager, she became proficient at gymnastics. After the war, her parents fled what was then Yugoslavia, lived in Italian refugee camps and eventually settled in Naples, where her father found work as a hospital administrator. Antonelli was born Laura Antonaz in Pola, Kingdom of Italy (in Croatian, Pula), former capital of Istria.