Cinzia Monreale

{{Short description|Italian actress (born 1957)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Cinzia Monreale

| image = Cinzia Monreale.jpg

| image_size =

| caption = Monreale in 1975

| birth_name = Cinzia Moscone

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1957|6|22}}

| birth_place = Genoa, Italy

| other_names = Sarah Keller

| occupation = {{flatlist|

  • Actress
  • producer

}}

| years_active = 1975–present

}}

Cinzia Monreale (born Cinzia Moscone; 22 June 1957){{cite web| url=http://www.mymovies.it/biografia/?a=6703| title=Cinzia Monreale| publisher=mymovies.it| date=| accessdate=9 June 2012}} is an Italian actress best known for her roles in the horror classics Beyond the Darkness and The Beyond.

Early life

Monreale was born in Genoa. She is the daughter of lyric singer Mirella Zaza.

Career

Monreale was active as runway model before starting her film career.{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano - Le Attrici|year=2003|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=888440214X}} In 1975, at age 17, she made her film debut in a minor role in the Vittorio Sindoni's comedy Son tornate a fiorire le rose, then she got her first main roles again with Sindoni, in the comedies Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe and Per amore di Cesarina.

Monreale appeared in several films throughout the seventies, including the Spaghetti Western Silver Saddle, which was her first time working with famed horror film director Lucio Fulci.{{cite book|last1=Luca M. Palmerini, Gaetano Mistretta|title=Spaghetti nightmares|year=1996|publisher=M&P, 1996|isbn=8886839014}} In 1979, at age 22, she starred in a leading role with director Joe D'Amato in Buio Omega (Beyond the Darkness), and in 1981, again working with Fulci, she appeared as 'Emily' in the cult horror classic The Beyond, with Catriona MacColl and David Warbeck. Other roles include Joe D'Amato's Return From Death (a.k.a. Frankenstein 2000), Lucio Fulci's Warriors of the Year 2072 and The Sweet House of Horrors, the award-winning Festival directed by Pupi Avati, Under the Skin, and When a Man Loves a Woman.

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Monreale has also worked as a producer. She served as a videographer in the 2005 original documentary Kill Gil: Volume 1 and she produced the 2006 documentary Kill Gil: Volume 2. She is also active on television, in TV-movies and series.

Filmography

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1975

| Son tornate a fiorire le rose

| Gioia

| uncredited

1976

| Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe

| Jessica

|

1976

| Quel movimento che mi piace tanto

| Anna Gilioli

|

1976

| Per amore di Cesarina

| Cesarina

|

1978

| Silver Saddle (Sella d'argento)

| Margaret Barrett

|

1978

| Bermuda: Cave of the Sharks

| Girl on Boat

|

1979

| Beyond the Darkness (Buio Omega)

| Anna Völkl & Elena Völkl

|

1980

| Flatfoot in Egypt

| Connie

|

1981

| The Beyond

| Emily

| credited as Sarah Keller

1984

| Illusione

|

|

1984

| The New Gladiators (I guerrieri dell'anno 2072)

| Linda

| uncredited

1986

| La vallée des peupliers

| Christiane

| TV series

1987

| Under the Chinese Restaurant

| La rapinatrice

|

1989

| The Sweet House of Horrors

| Marcia

| made for Italian TV film; a.k.a. La dolce casa degli orrori

1992

| Return from Death (Frankenstein 2000)

| Georgia

|

1993

| Nel continente nero

| Francesca

|

1993

| Kreola

| Jo Ann

|

1996

| The Stendhal Syndrome

| Alfredo Grossi's wife

|

1996

| Festival

|

|

1997

| Mamma per caso

|

| TV mini-series

1999

| Il popolo degli uccelli

|

|

2000

| Under the Skin

|

|

2000

| Turbo

|

| TV series

2000

| When a Man Loves a Woman

| Gloria

|

2001

| L'accertamento

| Elsa

|

2002

| La casa dell'angelo

| Chicca

| television film

2003

| The Cruelest Day

|

|

2004

| Madre come te

|

| television film

2009

| Kommissar Rex

|

| television series; episode: 'La mamma è sempre la mamma'

2010

| My House is Full of Mirrors

|

| television film

References

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