Franca Marzi
- Category : 1925-births
- Type : GE
- Profile : 1/3 - Investigating / Martyr
- Definition : Split - Small (2,34,35,46)
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Contagion 3
Biography
Italian film actress who appeared in eighty films between 1943 and 1977. Marzi made her film debut in her early twenties, in The Lovers (1946) by Giacomo Gentilomo. She was usually cast in roles of provocative women and femme fatales in films of sentimental or comic genre. The only exception was the Federico Fellini drama Nights of Cabiria (1957), in which she played the role of the prostitute Wanda, the best friend of Giulietta Masina, a role for which she was rewarded with the Silver Ribbon for Best Supporting Actress.
Marzi died on 6 March 1989, aged 62, in Cinisello Balsamo, Italy.