Career

Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in La moglie più bella (aka The Most Beautiful Wife). She has primarily worked in Italian films but she made her English-speaking film debut as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon in 1980. American movies she appeared in include Love and Money (1982), Casanova (1987), Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1989), A Season of Giants (1990), Oscar (1991), Once Upon a Crime (1992), Somewhere in the City (1998) and To Rome with Love (2012).

She is mostly known to the French for appearing in a television commercial of Giovanni Panzani pasta. She was voted "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" in 1994 by a worldwide poll of readers of the magazine Class.[citation needed]

In 2008, Muti introduced her own line of jewelry.[2] She opened new shops in Paris, Milan, Rome, Riga, Moscow and Almaty.[when?] She reportedly insured her breasts for $350,000.[3][when?]

Personal life

Muti has been married twice, first to Alessio Orano (a fellow actor in The Most Beautiful Wife), from 1975-81. She was married, secondly, to Federico Fachinetti, from 1988 to 1996. Muti has three children: Naike Rivelli (born 1974), a fashion model, singer, and actress (whose father is Spanish film producer José Luis Bermúdez de Castro Acaso); a son, Andrea, and a second daughter, Carolina, both from her marriage to Fachinetti. In September 2016, she announced the intention to have also a Russian citizenship when she visited the island Sakhalin, Muti owns a permanent residence in Russia and applied for citizenship the same year.[4]

Selected filmography

• La moglie più bella (The Most Beautiful Wife, 1970)
• Il Sole nella pelle (1971, also known as Summer Affair, Sun on the Skin)
• Un posto ideale per uccidere (Oasis of Fear, 1971)
• The House of the Doves (1972)
• Le Monache di Sant'Arcangelo (1973, also known as Sisters of Satan, The Nuns of Saint Archangel, The Nun and the Devil)
• Italian Graffiti (1973)
• Romanzo popolare (1974, also known as Come Home and Meet My Wife)
• The Sensual Man (1974)
• Appassionata (1974, also known as Passionate)
• Leonor (fr) (1975)
• Pure as a Lily (1976)
• La Dernière femme (1976, also known as The Last Woman, L'Ultima donna)
• La stanza del vescovo, (1977, also known as The Bishop’s Room)
• Mort d'un pourri (1977, also known as Death of a Corrupt Man, The Twisted Detective)
• I nuovi mostri (1977)
• Ritratto di borghesia in nero (1978, also known as Nest of Vipers, Portrait of a Bourgeois in Black)
• Eutanasia di un amore (1978)
• Primo amore (1978)
• Neapolitan Mystery (1979)
• La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful, 1979)
• Flash Gordon (1980)
• Il Bisbetico Domato (1980)
• Storie di ordinaria follia (Tales of Ordinary Madness, 1981)
• Nessuno è perfetto (1981)
• Innamorato pazzo (Madly in Love, 1981)
• Love and Money (1982)
• La ragazza di Trieste (The Girl from Trieste, 1982)
• Bonnie e Clyde all'italiana (Bonnie and Clyde Italian Style, 1983)
• Un povero ricco (Rich and Poor, 1983)
• Un amour de Swann (1984, also known as Eine Liebe von Swann, Swann in Love)
• Il futuro è donna (The Future Is Woman, 1984)
• All the Fault of Paradise (Tutta colpa del paradiso) (1985)
• Stregati (1986)
• Grandi magazzini (1986)
• Io e mia sorella (Me and My Sister, 1987)
• Casanova (1987)
• Cronaca di una morte annunciata (Chronicle of a Death Foretold, 1987)
• Il frullo del passero (The Sparrow's Fluttering, 1988)
• O Re (The King of Naples) (1989)
• Codice privato (1989)
• Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1989)
• Il Viaggio di Capitan Fracassa (1990, English titles: Captain Fracassa's Journey, The Voyage of Captain Fracassa)
• Stasera a casa di Alice (1990)
• A Season of Giants (1990)
• Oscar (1991)
• Count Max (1991)
• La domenica specialmente (Especially on Sunday, 1991)
• Once Upon a Crime (1992)
• El Amante Bilingüe (The Bilingual Lover, 1993)
• Compromesso d'amore (1995, Spanish title: Tatiana, la muñeca rusa, US title: Love Deal)
• Mi fai un favore (1996, US title: Stella's Favor)
• Pour rire! (1996)
• Widows - Erst die Ehe, dann das Vergnügen (1998)
• Somewhere in the City (1998)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (1998, miniseries)
• Esther (1999 film)
• The Unscarred (1999), co-starred with daughter Naike Rivelli
• Panni sporchi (Dirty Linen, 1999)
• Tierra del fuego (2000)
• Jet Set (2000)
• Domani (2001, English title: Tomorrow)
• Il figlio prediletto (2001 Brazil, Portuguese title: Um Crime Nobre)
• Last Run (2001) as Danny
• Hotel (2001) as Flamenco Spokesperson

• Cavale (2002, also known as Trilogy: One, On the Run) as Cécile Costes
• Un couple épatant (2002, also known as Trilogy: Two, An Amazing Couple) as Cécile Costes
• Après la vie (2002, also known as Trilogy: Three, After the Life) as Cécile Rivet
• Uomini & donne, amori & bugie (2003) as Anna
• The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (2003) as Mathilde Figura
• The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004) as Mathilde Figura
• The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004) as Grandmother
• People (2004) as Aphrodita
• The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish (2004) as Mathilde Figura
• Di que sí (2004) as Francesca, la directora
• La bambina dalle mani sporche (2005, TV Movie) as Wanda Rosso
• A Life in Suitcases (2005) as Mathilde Figura
• Friday or Another Day (2005) as La mère de Philippe Rohan
• Les Bronzés 3: Amis pour la vie (2006) as Graziella Sparaggi Lespinasse
• L'Inchiesta (2006) as Mary of Magdalene
• Peopling the Palaces at Venaria Reale (2007) as Marchesa di Caraglio
• Civico zero (2007) as Nina
• Postcards from Rome (2008) as Ornella
• Io non ci casco (2008) as Professoressa Lamberti
• Doc West (2009, TV Movie) as Debra Downing
• To Rome with Love (2012) as Pia Fusari
• Checkmate (2016) as Penury

[ Source: Wikipedia ]