Virna Lisi

What I admire most about Virna Lisi is her refusal to be defined by the glamour Hollywood once handed her. After a run of American comedies, she went home to Italy and built something far more durable: a body of work serious enough to win her Nastro d'Argento and David di Donatello prizes again and again. Tellingly, many of those honors came later in her career, when the early beauty had given way to genuine depth. She is, to me, a study in how an actor grows into the role of artist rather than merely staying a star.

Name (English)

Virna Lisi

Name (Japanese)

ヴィルナ・リージ

Reading

ゔぃるな・りーじ

Born

November 8, 1936 – December 18, 2014

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rat

Origin

Ancona, Province of Ancona, Italy

Occupation

actor

Awards & achievements

• 1978 Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress
• 1980 David di Donatello for Best Actress
• 1983 David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress
• 1983 Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress
• 1990 Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress
• 1995 Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress
• 1997 Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress
• 2002 Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virna%20Lisi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106627

Tags

• Province of Ancona
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.