Mita Medici
{{Short description|Italian actress}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Mita Medici
| image = Mita Medici 73.jpg
| image_size =
| caption =
| birth_name = Patrizia Vistarini
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|8|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = Rome, Italy
| death_date =
| death_place =
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Actress
- singer
}}
| other_names = Patrizia Perini
| spouse =
| father = Francesco Vistarini
| relatives = Carla Vistarini (sister)
}}
Patrizia Vistarini (born 20 August 1950), known professionally as Mita Medici and sometimes credited as Patrizia Perini, is an Italian actress and singer.
Biography
Born in Rome as Patrizia Vistarini, daughter of the actor Franco Silva, she was launched in 1965 by winning the "Miss Teenager" pageant.{{cite news|first=Jacopo|last=Granzotto|title=Creò Renato Zero e Patty Pravo: il "Piper club" compie 45 anni|language=it|url=http://www.ilgiornale.it/roma/creo_renato_zero_e_patty_pravo_piper_club_compie_45_anni/18-02-2010/articolo-id=423021-page=0-comments=1|accessdate=20 February 2012|newspaper=Il Giornale|date=18 February 2010}} Medici made her film debut in 1966, at 16, in Luciano Salce's How I Learned to Love Women. She is also active in television, in which she hosted shows such as Canzonissima and Sereno variabile and appeared in several TV-series.{{cite book|editor-first=Enrico|editor-last=Lancia|editor-first2=Roberto|editor-last2=Poppi|title=Le attrici: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|series=Dizionario del cinema italiano|language=it|location=Rome|publisher=Gremese|year=2003|isbn=88-8440-214-X}} She was also a singer, active between late 60's and early 80's, and her main success was the song "A ruota libera", which in 1973 ranked 10 in the Italian Hit Parade.{{cite book|first=Dario|last=Salvatori|title=Storia dell'hit parade|language=it|location=Rome|publisher=Gremese|year=1989|isbn=88-7605-439-1}}
In 1968, she was the subject of the song "Mita, Mita, Mita" by progressive rock group Le Orme.{{cite book|first=Renato|last=Venturelli|title=Nessuno ci può giudicare: il lungo viaggio del cinema musicale 1930-1980|language=it|location=Rome|publisher=Fahrenheit 451|year=1998|isbn=88-86095-30-9}}{{cite book|first=Oronzo|last=Balzano|title=Ad gloriam: Le Orme e il beat|others=foreword by Nino Smeraldi; interviews with Aldo Tagliapietra, Claudio Galieti|language=it|location=Cerignola|publisher=Enter|year=2011|isbn=978-88-905822-4-0}}
Her elder sister Carla Vistarini is a song lyricist, novelist, playwright and scriptwriter. She's an atheist.{{Cite magazine|first=Lucio|last=Giordano|title=Quando ero bambina credevo in Dio, ma poi, a 12 anni, ho perduto la fede|language=it|magazine=Dipiù|date=5 April 2024|number=13|pages=78-81}}
Discography
=Studio albums=
- …A ruota libera (1973)
- Per una volta (1975)
=Singles=
- "Questo amore finito così" (1969)
- "Un posto per me/Avventura che nasce" (1970)
- "Un amore/Una storia come tante" (1971)
- "Quei giorni/Se ci sta lui" (1972)
- "Ruota libera/Cosa vuoi che ti dica" (1973)
- "Proprio così/Tremendo" (1973)
- "Scappa scappa/Quei giorni" (1973)
- "Chi sono/Nave" (1975)
- "Uomo/Trucco" (1977)
- "Paletta paletta/Mago tango" (1981)
- "Ma che fiesta" feat. Gianni Dei (1989)
Filmography
=Films=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
!scope="col"|Year !scope="col"|Title !scope="col"|Role(s) !scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
| rowspan="2"|1966
|Annamaria | |
| L'estate
|Elisabetta Fantoni | |
| rowspan="2"|1967
|Vanessa | |
| Pronto... c'è una certa Giuliana per te
|Giuliana | |
| 1968
|Colpo di sole |Cristina Mancinelli | |
| 1969
|Plagio |Angela | |
| 1970
|Come ti chiami, amore mio? |Carola | |
| 1980
|Patrizia | |
| 1992
|Gole ruggenti |Paolo's wife | |
| 1993
|Cinecittà... Cinecittà |Herself |Cameo appearance |
| 1997
|L'amico di Wang |Nurse Ambra | |
| 2003
|Amorfù |Rock poetess |Cameo appearance |
| 2005
|E se domani |Director Morandi | |
| 2009
|Feisbum |Doriana | |
| 2011
|Un milione di giorni |Maria | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
!scope="col"|Year !scope="col"|Title !scope="col"|Role(s) !scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
| 1970
|Coralba |Deborah Danon |Main role (5 episodes) |
| 1974
|Ottilie Pesamenole |{{nowrap|Television film}} |
| 1979
|Alison Graeme |Television film |
| 1985
|Murder of a Moderate Man |Regina |Recurring role (3 episodes) |
| 1985, 1987
|Aeroporto internazionale |Secretary |2 episodes |
| 1989
|Journalist |Episode: "Il mistero di Villa Gruber" |
| 1992
|Il cielo non cade mai |Clara Negroni |Television film |
| 1997–2003, 2013
|Marisa Saviani |Recurring role (77 episodes) |
| 2001
|Paola Novelli |Recurring role (5 episodes) |
| 2006–2008
|Barbara |Main role (14 episodes) |
| rowspan="2"|2008
|Martina Maselli |Episode: "La prof della prof" |
| Don Matteo
|Silveria |Episode: "I segreti degli altri" |
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{Commons category}}
- {{IMDb name|0575593}}
- [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mita+Medici Mita Medici] at Discogs
{{Authority control}}
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Category:Italian television actresses
Category:Italian women singers
Category:Italian film actresses