Marisa Pavan

Pavan and her fraternal twin sister, Anna Maria, were born in 1932 in Cagliari, Sardinia, the children of Enrichetta ({{née|Romiti}}) and Luigi Pierangeli, a construction engineer, both from Pesaro, Marche. The two girls also had a younger sister, Patrizia Pierangeli, who became an actress as well. Her stage name, Pavan, was the surname of a Jewish general in the Italian Army she and her family hid during the Nazi occupation of Rome in World War II.{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Harrison |date=8 December 2023 |title=Marisa Pavan, Oscar-nominated actress in 'The Rose Tattoo,' dies at 91 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/12/08/marisa-pavan-dead/ |newspaper=The Washington Post}}

Pavan had no dramatic training when she signed a Hollywood contract with Paramount at age 19.{{cite news|title=Marisa Pavan Signs Paramount Contract|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18639346/marisa_pavan/|work=Hartford Courant|date=25 November 1951|location=Connecticut, Hartford|page=92|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = 25 March 2018}} {{Open access}} Although her screen debut was in 1952 in What Price Glory,{{cite news|last1=Archerd|first1=Armand|title=Pierangeli Twins Earn Success|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18638810/marisa_pavan/|work=The Daily Reporter|agency=Central Press Association|date=11 June 1956|location=Ohio, Dover|page=2|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = 25 March 2018}} {{Open access}} Pavan's breakthrough role came three years later, when she was cast as Anna Magnani's daughter in The Rose Tattoo. That part was initially assigned to her twin sister, but by the time production began, Angeli was unavailable for the role.{{Citation needed|date=March 2018}} Pavan's performance earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.{{cite web|title=("Marisa Pavan" search results)|url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/search/results|website=Academy Awards Database|access-date=26 March 2018}}{{Dead link|date=March 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} She also won the Golden Globe Award for (Best Supporting Actress) for her performance in the film.{{cite web|title=Marisa Pavan|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/marisa-pavan|website=Golden Globe Awards|publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association|access-date=26 March 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180326023951/https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/marisa-pavan|archive-date=26 March 2018|url-status=live}}

Pavan co-starred in films such as Diane (1956), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956), The Midnight Story (1957) and John Paul Jones (1959). She also played Abishag in King Vidor's biblical epic Solomon and Sheba (1959). Her later films included A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973), Antoine and Sebastian (1974) and the television miniseries The Moneychangers (1976). In 1985, she played Chantal Dubujak on Ryan's Hope.

On 27 March 1956, Pavan married French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont in Santa Barbara, California, and the couple remained together until Aumont's death in 2001.{{cite news|title=Romantic Flurry Almost Upsets Marisa Pavan, Aumont Wedding|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18664930/marisa_pavan/|work=The San Bernardino County Sun|agency=Associated Press|date=28 March 1956|location=California, San Bernardino|page=7|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = 26 March 2018}} {{Open access}}{{cite news|title=Aumont Survivors|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33677136/jeanpierre_aumont_survivors/|work=Los Angeles Times|date=1 February 2001|location=California, Los Angeles|page=31|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = 8 July 2019}} {{Open access}} They had two sons.{{cite news|last1=Wilson|first1=Earl|title=Jean Pierre Aumont Happy On Island|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18664714/marisa_pavan/|work=Daily Press|date=5 August 1973|location=Virginia, Newport News|page=54|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = 26 March 2018}} {{Open access}}

Pavan died at her home in Gassin, France on 6 December 2023, aged 91.[https://www.varmatin.com/cinema/princesse-de-lage-dor-dhollywood-marisa-pavan-sest-eteinte-a-gassin-a-lage-de-91-ans-890117 Princesse de l'âge d'or d'Hollywood, Marisa Pavan s'est éteinte à Gassin à l'âge de 91 ans] {{in lang|fr}}{{cite news |last1=Barnes |first1=Mike |title=Marisa Pavan, Oscar-Nominated Actress in 'The Rose Tattoo,' Dies at 91 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/marisa-pavan-dead-rose-tattoo-1235715265/ |access-date=25 May 2024 |publisher=The Hollywood Reporter |date=6 December 2023}}

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• What Price Glory (1952)
• I Chose Love (1953)
• Down Three Dark Streets (1954)
• Drum Beat (1954)
• The Rose Tattoo (1955)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956) (Season 1 Episode 16: "You Got to Have Luck") as Mary Schaffner
• Diane (1956)
• The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
• The Midnight Story (1957)
• John Paul Jones (1959)
• Solomon and Sheba (1959)
• Shangri-La (TV movie, 1960)
• Naked City – "Requiem for a Sunday Afternoon" as Josephine (1961)
• Combat – Season 2 Episode 12 "Ambush" as Marie Marchand (1963)
• The F.B.I. – Season 1 Episode 9 "The Exiles" as Maria Blanca (1965)
• The Diary of Anne Frank (TV movie, 1967)
• Cutter's Trail (TV movie) (1970)
• A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973)
• Antoine and Sebastian (1974)
• Hawaii Five-O (TV, 1977) "East Wind, Ill Wind" – Madame Sandanarik
• The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (TV movie, 1977)
• Wonder Woman "Formula 407" (TV, 1977)

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Category:Actresses from Sardinia