Antonella Attili

After performing in avant-garde theater, Attili made her film acting debut in 1988's critically acclaimed Cinema Paradiso, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. Among other awards the film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Oscar for best foreign film in 1989. In 1990 she once again worked with Tornatore for the film Everybody's Fine. In 1993 she appeared in The Long Silence, Margarethe von Trotta 's only Italian film. In 1994 she worked on Pupi Avati's Declarations of Love, where she appeared among the protagonists alongside Delia Boccardo. Stefano Incerti's 1999 film Prima del tramonto (Before Sunset) earned her a nomination for the Italian Nastro d'argento film award, for best supporting actress. Attili regularly appears on the Italian television talk show Propaganda Live with a segment called "Antonella Atiili's Monologue", where she gives her views about various social, political and cultural topics.