Giulietta Masina

Giulietta Masina 22 February 1921 23 March 1994 was an Italian film and stage actress She starred in La Strada and Nights of Cabiria both winners of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1956 and 1957 respectively Masina won the Best Actress award at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival for the later film She was the wife and muse of the Italian film director Federico Fellini in whom she found an artistic equal and collaborator Owing to her intense performances of naïve characters dealing with cruel circumstances Masina is often called the female Chaplin Description above from the Wikipedia article Giuletta Masina licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia