Anna Galiena
Birthday: Born in 1954-12-22 in Roma, Lazio, Italy
Deathday: Alive
Anna Galiena (born 22 December 1954) is an Italian actress, best known to English-speaking audiences for her appearances in Le Mari de la coiffeuse, Jamón, jamón and Being Human. her youth, Galiena starred in numerous off and on-Broadway shows, including several revivals of Shakespeare plays. She had made over a dozen films, mainly in her native Italy before her role in Le Mari de la coiffeuse brought her to international attention. She went on to appear in Bigas Luna's Jamón, jamón and went on to make her mainstream Hollywood debut in the Bill Forsyth-directed Being Human starring Robin Williams. The film was, however, a massive flop. Since then, Galiena has worked in European cinema, where she is consistently in demand. With over 50 films and many television appearances to her credit, she currently has several films in production, including a prominent supporting role in the film Virgin Territory, starring Hayden Christensen and Mischa Barton. She stars alongside Joaquim de Almeida and Ben Gazzara in the thriller Christopher Roth. In 2007 she was a member of the jury at the 29th Moscow International Film Festival
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The Pleasure Zone
Character: Monica (as Maria Galis)
The Pleasure Zone is an online dating service run by enigmatic avatar Serena. Serena has a special talent of finding the right people to make a love connection, fun connection, or whatever type of connection her clients are looking for. She gathers a lot of information from all of her clients to make sure that she finds what one is looking for. For the many clients who are confused by love and relationship, she also helps them understand what you are looking for. Each episode of this series is a...
Romanzo famigliare
Character: Tullia Zampi
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La Crociera
Character: Laura
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Eppur si muove
Character: Self
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Lo + plus
Character: Self - Guest
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Le Président Ferrare
Character: Marylin
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Emily in Paris
Character: Antonia Muratori
When ambitious Chicago marketing exec Emily unexpectedly lands her dream job in Paris, she embraces a new life as she juggles work, friends and romance....
Il bello delle donne... alcuni anni dopo
Character: Germana Gregoretti
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
Character: Madame Plens
The second of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper as he works in a cinema, which gives him ample opportunity to cross paths with virtually every artistic device and dramatic character known to man. The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world—...
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
Character: Madame Plens
The third of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper as he continues his adventures as a professional prisoner during the later years of the Second World War and its aftermath, the Cold War. The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world—92 being th...
L'estate sta finendo
Character: Sandra
15-year-old Giuliana doesn't want to spend the summer with her rich mother, so—without a word—she leaves with Romeo, the son of the janitor of her building, embarking on a backpacking trip through Italy. Her divorced father is worried and decides to go in search of his daughter....
Jamon Jamon
Character: Carmen, Silvia's mother
José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the underwear assembly line, his mom enlists Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter, to seduce Silvia....
Black Angel
Character: Livia Mazzoni
Trapped in an unhappy marriage, the wife of a high ranking Fascist official starts a dangerous, self-destructive relationship with a duplicitous S.S. Officer....
Amore e libertà - Masaniello
Character: Viceregina
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Happiness
Character: Floriana Mazzoni
This is the story of a broken family, of egotistic and manipulative parents, a two-headed monster that devours every hope of freedom on the part of the children. Desirè is the only one who can save her brother Claudio and will go on fighting against everything and everyone in the name of the only love she knows, in pursuit of a bit of happiness....
The Hairdresser's Husband
Character: Mathilde
The film begins with a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks throughout and there are frequent parallels drawn with the past. We are unsure what Antoine has done with his life, however, we know he has fulfilled his childhood ambition, to marry a hairdresser....
Virgin Territory
Character: The Abbess
In Black Death era Tuscany, as in the Decameron, ten young Florentines take refuge from the plague. But instead of telling stories, they have lusty adventures, bawdy exchanges, romance, swordplay, randy nuns, Saracen pirates, and a sexy cow....
Sposa in rosso
Character: Lucrezia Madonia
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Off Key
Character: Rita
A trio of opera singers are reunited by a wedding ten years after their stormy breakup....
Question of Luck
Character: Marie
Julio is at a turning point in his life. His fish farm business has collapsed, and his attractive fiancee, Concha is pushing Julio to get married. But Julio seems strangely unenthusiastic about marrying into Concha’s affluent family lottery business. Things get complicated when he finds a fortune in jewels......
Ultimatum
Character: Rachel
A young French couple deals with ramifications of world events on their relationship as Saddam Hussein threatens to launch SCUD missiles on Israel....
Hotel Colonial
Character: Francesca
Marco Veniera goes to Bogotá, Colombia to find his brother, Luca who supposedly committed suicide. In his search, he meets fiery and exotic Irene Costa, who leads him into the depths of the Amazon jungle. But it's every man for himself. And brotherly love turns to hate....
Un amore su misura
Character: Carla
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The Leading Man
Character: Elena Webb
Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, 'The Hit Man', in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a masterpiece; but Felix can't enjoy his success. He has fallen passionately in love with Hilary, a beautiful, fiesty young actress, and is preparing to desert his perfect family, his wife Elena and three lively children. His intolerable situation is further complicated when Humphrey casts Hilary as one of the leads in 'The Hit Man'. Enter Robin Grange,...
Destiny Ride
Character: Tante Louise
Une prostituée de luxe, un juge d'instruction arriviste, une journaliste idéaliste... Trois cultures différentes, trois êtres n'ayant pas les mêmes valeurs. A travers une histoire et un milieu où la vérité n'est pas toujours belle à connaître, l'amour que ces trois personnes éprouvent les uns pour les autres va devenir meurtrier....
The Last Writer
Character: Fanny
Jacques asks a public writer to compose love letters for a beautiful stranger that he pretends he has just met....
Fade to Black
Character: Aida Padovani
Still reeling from the painful breakup of his marriage to screen siren Rita Hayworth, filmmaker Orson Welles makes his way to Rome, where he gets pulled into a tangled political plot involving murder and mysterious motives. A beautiful actress proves a tempting distraction. But if they want to stay alive, Welles and his young Italian driver need to stay focused....
Dirty Vivancos III
Character: Amanda
The investigation of the murder of two policemen will pit Inspector Vivancos, a tough, hardened and incorruptible guy, against his superior, Lieutenant Pajarda....
Mejor que Nunca
Character: Clotilde
Isabel suffers a disorder after learning that her husband, due to his immaturity, falls in love with a young teenager. She will try to get over it and with the little help of her daughter, a fanatical psychotherapist who only tortures her, she decides to start over and finally enjoy a new life. Something that will lead her to meet a true gentleman......
Excellent Cadavers
Character: Francesca Morvillo
Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight....
Three Lives and Only One Death
Character: Maria Gabri - Colosso "Tania la Corse"
Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before....
The Great Pumpkin
Character: Cynthia Diotallevi
An epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out of this mistake begins the difficult journey towards being cured....
Senza pelle
Character: Gina
The lives of a young mother and her boyfriend are turned upside down when she unknowingly becomes the focus of the attentions of a depressed and mentally unstable young man....
Quiet Days in Clichy
Character: Edith
Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris....
La scuola
Character: prof.ssa Majello
In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children....
Christopher Roth
Character: Catherine Roth
A horror novelist begins to fear his stories may have a life of their own....
Lezioni di volo
Character: Pollo's mother
A pair of teen friends – known as "Chicken & Curry" because they are virtually inseparable – fail their high school finals and try to cover it by claiming that Curry is in the midst of an identity crisis that can only be solved by a visit to his ancestral homeland, India. While the ruse works wonderfully on their parents, this impromptu journey of self-discovery takes an unexpected detour when Curry locates his biological sister and remains captivated by the country he first despised, and Chicke...
Write It on the Walls
Character: Madre Sole
Sole, a university student bored of her daily routine, meets graffiti artists Pierpaolo and Alex, and her life changes until she falls in love with one of them....
La viuda del capitán Estrada
Character: Luisa Estrada
After the Second World War, the United Nations has declared the blockade of Franco's Spain. In this historical context, for a time little known, lies the story of the widow of a Spanish army captain....
Old Rascal
Character: Rose
A story of a modest ordinary crook trying his best to turn his boring life into an affordable extraordinary adventure....
Guido, Who Challenged the Red Brigades
Character: Silvia Rossa
Genoa, Italy, 24th of January 1979. Red Brigades' member Roberto Dura is waiting with two other comrades for trade unionist leader and factory worker Guido Rossa to leave his home to go to work. Three months earlier, Rossa had denounced a work colleague, Francesco Berardi, because he was distributing Red Brigade flyers inside the factory. Berardi was arrested and, after a fast tracked trial, was convicted to four and a half years. .......
La Travestie
Character: Solange, aka Myriam
Nicole is a female attorney who is frustrated with the male-dominated world of provincial law. She embezzles money from a law firm and travels to Paris where she disguises herself as a man in hopes it will make a difference in her life and career. Nicole has two lesbian affairs and becomes a pimp for one of the women. She also has an affair with a man who indicates that he doesn't want a serious relationship. Nicole's loneliness leads her to the affairs as she continues the downward spiral into ...
Stay Away from Me
Character: Lorenza Bra
Jacopo has a serious problem. He may be a brilliant marriage guidance counsellor, but he can never manage to have a steady relationship for more than two weeks. And for good reason: since he was very young, Jacopo has been cursed and brought bad luck to every woman who has fallen in love with him. Really bad luck. Because of this, he has vowed to stay away from women, for their own good. But the moment he lays eyes on Sara at a friend’s birthday party, he is smitten. Despite his resistance, the...
Improvised Christmas
Character: Rosa
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My Summer in Provence
Character: Irène
In the wake of their parent's separation, three siblings spend the summer in the south of France with their estranged Grandfather. In less than 24 hours, a clash of generations has occurred between the teenagers and the old man. During this turbulent summer, both generations will be transformed by one another....
Unpredictable Nature of the River
Character: Louise de Saint-Agnan
Nobleman Jean-Francois de la Plaine is exiled to serve as governor of a West African colony....
The Do-Gooders
Character: Laura
Three former bank robbers are meeting after 25 years......
Farewell Moscow
Character:
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Giorni Felici
Character: Margherita
Margherita is an international actress with a career full of successes and awards. Suddenly, she is stricken by physical problems. Antonio, her former partner arrives to assist her and to rebuild their relationship....
CARRON - Codice d'Angelo
Character: Graziella Carron
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It Happens in the Best of Families
Character: Mamma Lina
After their father passes away, three siblings reconnect at their mother's remarriage....
L'Atlantide
Character: Amira
A mythical land who must be discover. Or invented. In an impressive library, two old men. One is a great Polish archaeologist at the end of his work. The second- his best friend. They are masters of a substantial slice of human history: legendary Atlantis. It is refuge and masterpiece, propriety and treasure....
You Can't Save Yourself Alone
Character: Viola
Gaetano and Delia, a separated couple, try to pick up the pieces of their broken love, recalling all the faults and the mistakes which led them to where they are now....
L'Argent
Character: Baronne Sandorf
Saccard, ready to use all means, however immoral or illegal, tries to gain back the fortune he lost three years ago. All involving business and the exchange market. He has a loyal accomplice, an indifferent son, maybe-friends, partners and investors and of course, enemies....
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Character: Self
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Like Crazy
Character: Luciana Brogi coniugata Morelli
Two mental patients with opposite personalities ditch their Tuscan hospital and embark on an unpredictable exploration of the real world....
Mario and the Magician
Character: Rachel Fuhrmann
The Twenties: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time. The Fuhrmann's have to realize the upcoming and growing fascism and their children are fascinated by a magician visiting the town. Soon nothing is as usual. The times are changing ......
Being Human
Character: Beatrice
One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart....
Il veterinario
Character: Olimpia
Gigi Garulli is a veterinarian who lives with his wife and two children in a beautiful villa. In addition to being a veterinarian, Gigi is also the quality manager at Sgnak, a pet food factory owned by his father-in-law. But when the factory, and in particular Gigi, are accused by consumers for a batch of spoiled morsels, trouble begins....
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Character: Baronessa Chiara del Serchio
Baron Jacopo lives with his beautiful wife and spends his days playing funny pranks and worrying about not having children. His life could change when a young revolutionary, Leonardo, enters the scene, belonging to a group to which Jacopo has procured weapons for fun. Leonardo, encouraged by Jacopo himself, will actively participate in the couple's sexual activity; then he will impregnate the woman and leave the palace....
Love in the Mirror
Character: Virginia
In 17th century France, a theater troupe is allowed by its patron to go to Paris to produce an erotic play. The head of the troupe dreams of fame while his wife, the leading actress, and a new leading girl fall for each other....
Italian Fast Food
Character: S&M Client
The Film centers around an American-style fast food restaurant in Milan, the employees who work there and the clients that frequent the place....
Sweets from a Stranger
Character: Isa
A serial killer is terrifying the prostitutes in a big Italian city. After few barbaric murdering four prostitutes Lena, Angela, Nadine and Stella decide to unify and try to self-defend themselves. The police and all the other prostitutes agree with the four and the hunting is open. Who is the cruel killer?...
Willy Signori e vengo da lontano
Character: Alessandra
Willy is involved in a fatal car accident. Willy takes on the responsibility of supporting the dead man's pregnant girlfriend and the child, after it's birth....
Across the border
Character: Agnese
Turin 1993. The architect Agnese is called to the home for war veterans where her ailing father lives. The doctor at the home has left his guest, a Bosnian refugee, on night duty with her father. The commanding officer of the veterans home, a colonel, has discovered the undocumented refugee, Reuf, and has had him arrested. Agnese, who would rather not get involved with refugees, becomes better acquainted with Reuf and is drawn into events which eventually take her to Bosnia. On this journey, she...
But Forever in My Mind
Character: Eleonora
Teenage problems intertwine during the occupation of a high school in Rome. Silvio—much like his peers desperate to lose his virginity—wants to make his move on the girl he likes, despite her being already his friend's girlfriend and not knowing that her best friend harbors feelings for him—while clashing also with his parents, onetime Sixties radicals who look down on the kids' aimless political commitment....
Down There in the Jungle
Character: Gloria
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Nothing Underneath
Character: Diana
Bob Crane has long maintained a psychic connection to his twin sister, Jessica, who works as a fashion model in Milan. When Bob senses that his sister might be injured or killed, he travels to Italy to look for her, only to discover that she's vanished without a trace. Enlisting the help of about-to-retire Commissioner Danesi, Bob soon finds himself embroiled in a web of mystery and terror, when a scissors wielding killer begins to strike and all clues lead back to Jessica......
Guardiani delle nuvole
Character: Donna Maddalena
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Casa & Bottega
Character: Teresa
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Vino Santo – Es lebe die Liebe, es lebe der Wein
Character: Serafina Salvini
Half-Italian Gioia loves Max, but leaves her son's son to cheat her as a fiancé. When Mama invites the family to the Italian winery for Grandpa's 80th birthday, the feelings are on the table alongside pasta, pesto and vino, because Gioia happens to meet Max again ......
Le coup du sort
Character:
In the French Basque Country, near Saint-Jean-les-Bains, young man Julien (Noriega) finds a corpse, buried with jewels, in an abandoned car near a ravine. Julien cannot resist the temptation and takes the jewels with him. He later learned from the press that the man in the car was killed. Maria (Galiena), the boarding lady who accommodates Julien, brings him into contact with a healer. Julien and Maria become lovers, cash in on the loot and flee. It is quite obvious that this does not lead to a ...
Bibo per sempre
Character: Marisa
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Despite the Fog
Character: Laura
According to Interpol, over ten thousand refugees of minors without parental care are wandering today in Europe, half of which are on Italian roads. "Despite the Fog" is a movie story about one of them. In short: Ali-Musa Sarhan, a refugee whose parents drowned while traveling by rubber boat on the Italian coast in search of a better life, is accepted by family, husband and wife who have lost a child. They are trying to find solace in little Arab and a sort of replacement for their early decease...
Rorret
Character: Barbara Liegi
Mr. Rorret is the owner of a cinema called "The Peeping Tom" which shows a constant stream of horror films. Rorret dates women from the audience and then kills them, taking sadistic pleasure from their expressions of terror. This film is apparently a well-filmed homage to "Peeping Tom", with nods to "Psycho" and "Strangers on a Train"....
A Life in Suitcases
Character: Madame Plens
Follows Tulse Luper as he is swept into the ill-fortuned tides of the 20th century and forced to spend his life in a succession of imprisonments....
My Brother's Gun
Character: Madre
Based on the powerful novel by Ray Loriga. A young man and a young girl's lives are united under dramatic circumstances. He has just shot a security guard in the face who had accused him of robbing at a local mall. When he steals a car to escape, he meets the girl who, regardless of her suicidal inclinations, is attracted by her new companion. Together they embark on a journey in search for a true meaning in their lives....
Decent People
Character: La mère de Manon
Manon, 30 years old and 8 months pregnant, is a struggling singer. Consumed by her administrative issues and under finacial pressure, her relationship with Ludo cumbles and they don’t prepare for the birth of their child....
Les femmes et les enfants d'abord
Character: Rose
Rose was a brilliant student of Fine Arts. Then, she gave up everything for a "beautiful marriage". Now in her thirties, she is experiencing more and more difficulties in her life, which is both materially overprotected and difficult with her three children and an increasingly absent husband. She breaks down, cracks up and tries to imagine how she could broach the subject with her husband before it's too late. To her great amazement, it was Didier who, one evening before going to visit friends, ...
An Almost Ordinary Summer
Character: Giulietta
Two families meet for a marriage that neither want, and things take a turn when the respective patriarchs fall in love....
Doppio Segreto
Character: Caterina/Maria Manara
Caterina and Maria Manara are two monozygotic twins, therefore identical in appearance. What profoundly differentiates them are their character and the choices that life has led them to make. Their story intersects with crimes and attempted murders, threats and attacks, misfortunes and apparitions, premonitions and nightmares....
Beatrice
Character: Beatrice
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The Venice Project
Character: Maria / Sophia
Roland is an avant-garde artist in Venice, California whose sister lives on their family's estate in Venice, Italy. Their father is near death and announces that his home and priceless collection of art have been bequeathed to the Italian government....
La Fée Carabine
Character: Julie
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La Tête haute
Character: Marthe
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Un amore di strega
Character: Emma
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