Maddalena Crippa

Maddalena Crippa (born 4 September 1957) is an Italian film, television and stage actress. She won a David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Academy Awards nominee Three Brothers by Francesco Rosi.

Life and career
Born in Besana in Brianza, Crippa started to act at young age in an amateur dramatics with her father and brothers. At 17 years old, at exams to attend the drama school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, the director Giorgio Strehler was impressed by her acting skills and gave her a role in his adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's Il campiello (1975). From then, Crippa started a busy career in theater, working among others with Giancarlo Cobelli, Luca Ronconi and her husband Peter Stein. She is also active in TV-series and in films.

Miniseries

 * 1976: La casa nova of Carlo Goldoni, director Luigi Squarzina
 * 1976: I due gemelli veneziani of Carlo Goldoni, director Luigi Squarzina
 * 1976: Così per gioco, regia di Leonardo Cortese

Filmography

 * 1976: Aut aut. Cronaca di una rapina
 * 1981: Tre fratelli, dir. Francesco Rosi
 * 1982: No grazie, il caffè mi rende nervoso, dir Lodovico Gasparini
 * 1985: Juke Box, dir. Valerio Jalongo
 * 1986: Aurelia, dir. Giorgio Molteni
 * 1987: L'attrazione, dir. Mario Gariazzo
 * 1990: Non più di uno, dir. Roberto Pelosso
 * 1993: Berlino '39, dir. Sergio Sollima
 * 1998: Giochi d'equilibrio, dir. Amedeo Fago
 * 1998: Il commissario Rex, episode ... e tutto ricomincia
 * 1998: Film, dir. Laura Belli
 * 1999: Viol@, dir. Donatella Maiorca
 * 2000: Onorevoli detenuti, dir. Giancarlo Planta
 * 2011: In carne e ossa, dir. Christian Angeli
 * 2016: Io non mi arrendo, dir. Enzo Monteleone (2016)