Laura Morante is an Italian film actress.

She was born in Santa Fiora

Santa Fiora

Santa Fiora is a comune in the Province of Grosseto, in the Italian region of Tuscany, located about 110 km southeast of Florence and about 40 km east of Grosseto...

, province of Grosseto

Province of Grosseto

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 (Tuscany

Tuscany

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), and is the niece of renowned Italian novelist Elsa Morante

Elsa Morante

Elsa Morante was an Italian novelist, perhaps best known for her novel La storia .-Biography:...

.

Career

Formerly a dancer, Laura Morante started her acting career in the theater before her film debut in Oggetti Smarriti (Lost Belongings). Oggetti Smarriti was directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci whose brother would direct the second film in which Morante would appear, La Tragedia di un uomo ridicolo

La Tragedia di un uomo ridicolo

Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man is a 1981 Italian film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. It stars Anouk Aimée and Ugo Tognazzi, who was awarded the Best Male Actor Award at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival for his performance...

(The Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man). Under the auspices of the Bertolucci brothers, Morante's career had a successful beginning.

Roles

Morante's roles include La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo

La Tragedia di un uomo ridicolo

Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man is a 1981 Italian film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. It stars Anouk Aimée and Ugo Tognazzi, who was awarded the Best Male Actor Award at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival for his performance...

(1981), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers...

, and Bianca (1984) and The Son's Room

The Son's Room

The Son's Room is a 2001 Italian film directed by Nanni Moretti. It depicts the psychological effects on a family and their life after the death of their son...

(2001), both directed by Nanni Moretti

Nanni Moretti

Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...

. She also starred alongside Javier Bardem

Javier Bardem

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem is a Spanish actor. In 2007 he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as sociopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men, and has also garnered critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamón, jamón, Carne trémula, Boca a boca, Los...

 in The Dancer Upstairs

The Dancer Upstairs (film)

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(2002), the directorial debut of John Malkovich

John Malkovich

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, and in Remember Me, My Love

Remember Me, My Love

Remember Me, My Love is a 2003 Italian movie directed by Gabriele Muccino.Tagline: Some loves are never forgotten.-Plot:...

(2003) directed by Gabriele Muccino

Gabriele Muccino

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.

Morante attracted considerable attention with her performance as the neglected Madame Jourdain, with whom the young Molière

Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...

, played by Romain Duris

Romain Duris

-Life:Born on 28 May 1974 in Paris, son of an engineer-architect father, Duris studied arts at university. He was noticed in the street by a casting director whilst waiting in a queue in 1993 and offered a part in the 1994 Cédric Klapisch film Le péril jeune...

, falls in love, in the 2007 release Molière. She also provided the voice of Helen Parr in the Italian-dubbed version of the Pixar

Pixar

Pixar Animation Studios, pronounced , is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and three Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Its films have made over $6.3 billion worldwide...

 animated film, The Incredibles

The Incredibles

The Incredibles is a 2004 American computer-animated action-comedy superhero film about a family of superheroes who are forced to hide their powers. It was written and directed by Brad Bird, a former director and executive consultant of The Simpsons, and was produced by Pixar and distributed by...

.

Selected filmography

• The Naked Eye (1998)
• Hotel
  Hotel (2001 film)
  -Plot:While a British film crew are shooting a version of The Duchess of Malfi in Venice, they in turn are being filmed by a sleazy documentary primadonna while the strange staff share meals which consist of human meat. Then there is the hit man, the call girl and the Hollywood producer all...
  
  (2001)
• Empire of the Wolves (2005)
• Avenue Montaigne (2006)

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