Ottavia Piccolo
{{Short description|Italian actress (born 1949)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| image = Ottavia Piccolo in “Donna non rieducabile”.jpg
| caption = Piccolo in 2020
| name = Ottavia Piccolo
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|10|9|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Bolzano, Italy
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| occupation = Actress
| yearsactive = 1962–present
| party = Socialist {{small|(1967–1994)}}
| spouse = {{marriage|Claudio Rossoni|1974}}
| children = 1
}}
Ottavia Piccolo (born 9 October 1949) is an Italian actress.{{cite web|url=https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/voci/vociop.htm |title=Ottavia Piccolo's dubbing contributions|publisher=Antoniogenna.net |access-date=16 December 2019}}
Biography
Born in Bolzano, Piccolo began her acting debut in the stage adaption of The Miracle Worker at the age of 11 under the direction of Luigi Squarzina.{{cite web|url=https://www.mymovies.it/biografia/?a=4079 |title=Ottavia Piccolo |publisher=MYmovies |access-date= 17 December 2019}} She has also appeared in 45 films since 1962, making her debut film appearance in the 1963 film The Leopard. In 1964, she met Giorgio Strehler who directed the stage adaptations of Brawling in Chioggia and King Lear, both of which she appeared in. In 1970, she won the award for Best Actress at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival for the film Metello.{{Cite web |title=Festival de Cannes: Metello |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2481/year/1970.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307185509/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2481/year/1970.html |archive-date=2012-03-07 |access-date=10 April 2009 |work=festival-cannes.com}}
In addition to working in Italian cinema, Piccolo has also has some rare success in French cinema.{{cite news|url=https://dilei.it/lifestyle/ottavia-piccolo-attrice-biografia-e-curiosita/466468/|title= Ottavia Piccolo, attrice: biografia e curiosità |date= 13 September 2016 |publisher=dilei.it|language=it|access-date=17 December 2019}} She made her debut in the 1971 film The Widow Couderc directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre. Two years later, she appeared in The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot directed by Nina Companeez. She also appeared in several French television shows throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Piccolo returned to Italian television with the series Chiara e gli altri in which she portrayed Livia Malfatti. The show lasted only two seasons.{{cite news|url=https://atcreativita.it/buon-compleanno-ottavia-piccolo/|title= Auguri a Ottavia Piccolo|date= 9 October 2019 |publisher=atcreativita.it|language=it|access-date=17 December 2019}}
Piccolo has a rare career as a voice actress. She is internationally known for providing the Italian voice of Princess Leia Organa (portrayed by Carrie Fisher) in the Star Wars franchise.{{cite news|url=https://www.iodonna.it/spettacoli/cinema/2017/05/09/ottavia-piccolo-da-star-wars-al-campiello-ho-visto-cose-che-voi-umani/|title= Ottavia Piccolo, da Star Wars al Campiello: «Ho visto cose che voi umani…» |date= 9 May 2017 |publisher=iodonna.it|language=it|access-date=17 December 2019}} She was the only main cast member of the Italian dubbing of the original trilogy to reprise her character in the sequel trilogy as Stefano Satta Flores and Claudio Capone both died before the release of the sequel trilogy.
Selected filmography
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- The Leopard (1963)
- Serafino (1968)
- The Thirteen Chairs (1969)
- Metello (1970)
- Bubù (1971)
- Million Dollar Eel (1971)
- La Veuve Couderc (1971)
- Trastevere (1971)
- L'histoire très bonne et très joyeuse de Colinot trousse-chemise (1973)
- Antoine and Sebastian (1974)
- Zorro (1975)
- Mado (1976)
- {{Interlanguage link multi|La Certosa di Parma (1982)|it|3=La Certosa di Parma (miniserie televisiva 1982)|lt=La Certosa di Parma}} (1982, TV miniseries)
- Mino (1986, TV miniseries)
- The Family (1987)
- Da grande (1987)
- Condominio (1991)
- The Long Silence (1993)
- {{Interlanguage link multi|Bidoni (1995)|it|3=Bidoni|lt=Bidoni}} (1995)
- {{Interlanguage link multi|Marciando nel buio (1996)|it|3=Marciando nel buio|lt=Marciando nel buio}} (1996)
- Do You Know Claudia? (2004)
- A Good Season (2014, TV series)
- 7 Minutes (2016)
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- {{IMDB name|0681583}}
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Category:20th-century Italian actresses
Category:21st-century Italian actresses
Category:Italian film actresses
Category:Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress winners
Category:Nastro d'Argento winners
Category:Italian expatriates in France
Category:Italian stage actresses