Athina Cenci
{{Short description|Italian actress}}
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| name = Athina Cenci
| image = Presentazione del film "Exitus" - Athina Cenci.jpg
| caption = Cenci in 2021
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1946|03|13}}
| birth_place = Kos, Dodecanese, Kingdom of Italy, today modern Greece
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| occupation = Actress
| height = {{convert|1.73|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
}}
Athina Cenci (born 13 March 1946) is a Greek-born Italian former actress, stand-up comedian and politician.{{Cite book |last=Canova |first=Gianni |author-link=Gianni Canova |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1iAIAQAAMAAJ |title=Enciclopedia del cinema |date=2005 |publisher=Garzanti |isbn=978-88-11-50516-7 |pages=197 |language=it}}
Life and career
Born in Kos, Greece, Cenci was co-founder and member, together with Francesco Nuti and Alessandro Benvenuti, of the comedy ensemble "GianCattivi" with whom she achieved her first successes on stage and on television.{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano, Le Attrici|date=28 February 2024 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=978-8884402141}}Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. Catalogo dei viventi. Marsilio, 2009. {{ISBN|9788831795999}}. She made her film debut with GianCattivi in West of Paperino (1982), then, after the group split, she started a successful solo career winning two David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Mario Monicelli's Let's Hope It's a Girl and Carlo Verdone's Compagni di scuola.{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia|title=I premi del cinema|date=28 February 1998 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 1998|isbn=8877422211}} She later also worked with other notable directors, including Paolo and Vittorio Taviani and Ettore Scola, and was active on stage and on television, in TV-series and variety shows. In 1999 Cenci was elected with the Democrats of the Left in the city council of Florence. In 2001 she suffered a stroke that forced her to interrupt her artistic and political activities for many years.{{Cite web |date=2022-04-03 |title=Athina Cenci, il ritorno al cinema. "I fiori, i tartufi, la poesia: ogni giorno ricomincio daccapo" |url=https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2022/04/03/news/athina_cenci_dio_e_in_pausa_pranzo-343865136/ |access-date=2023-05-22 |website=la Repubblica |language=it}} She reappeared in public in 2014 and the year after returned on stage as protagonist.
References
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External links
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{{David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress}}
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Category:Italian film actresses
Category:Italian television actresses
Category:Italian stage actresses
Category:David di Donatello winners
Category:Democrats of the Left politicians
Category:Italian actor-politicians
Category:Greek emigrants to Italy
Category:Italian people of Greek descent