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Elena Maureen Bertolino, known as Marina Berti, (29 September 1924 – 29 October 2002) was an Italian film actress. She was born in London from an Italian father and an English mother.
Her first screen appearance was in the Anna Magnani film, La Fuggitiva in 1941. She appeared mainly in small roles and in the occasional leading role in nearly 100 films both Italian and American. Her appearances include Quo Vadis (1951), Abdulla the Great (1955), Ben Hur (1959), Cleopatra (1963), If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974), Night Train Murders (1975), and the TV miniseries' Moses the Lawgiver (1975) and Jesus of Nazareth (1977). Her last film appearance was in the Costa-Gavras film Amen. in 2002.
Berti died in 2002 in a Rome hospital after a long illness.
Selected filmography
- La fuggitiva (1941) - Lucia, l'assistente di Lia (uncredited)
- Divieto di sosta (1941)
- Giacomo the Idealist (1943) - Celestina
- La valle del diavolo (1943) - Greta Hansel
- La primadonna (1943) - Ester
- La storia di una capinera (1943) - Maria Anselmi
- La donna della montagna (1944) - Zosi
- The Gates of Heaven (1945) - La crocerossina
- The Ten Commandments (1945) - (segment "Non desiderare la roba d'altri")
- The Testimony (1946) - Linda
- Notte di tempesta (1946) - Caterina
- Fatal Symphony (1947)- Mirella
- Preludio d'amore (1947) - Anna
- Veglia nella notte (1948)
- The Earth Cries Out (1949) - Dina
- Prince of Foxes (1949) - Angela Borgia
- Sicilian Uprising (1949) - Laura
- The Sky Is Red (1950) - Carla
- Deported (1950) - Gina Carapia
- Hearts at Sea (1950) - (uncredited)
- Il sentiero dell'odio (1950)
- Up Front (1951) - Emi Rosso
- The Black Captain (1951) - Barbara Vivaldi
- Quo Vadis (1951) - Eunice
- Operation Mitra (1951)
- The Queen of Sheba (1952) - Zamira, betrothed of Rehoboam
- La colpa di una madre (1952) - Alma
- Carne inquieta (1952) - Fema Ferrara
- Eager to Live (1953) - Lucia
- At the Edge of the City (1953) - Luisa
- Casta Diva (1954) - Beatrice Turina
- Knights of the Queen (1954) - Jacqueline Planchet
- Abdulla the Great (1955) - Aziza
- Faccia da mascalzone (1956)
- Marie Antoinette Queen of France (1956) - Comtesse de Polignac
- Il canto dell'emigrante (1956) - Mara
- The Knight of the Black Sword (1956) - Contessa Laura
- Le avventure dei tre moschettieri (1957) - Jacqueline Planchet
- Le avventure di Roby e Buck (1957)
- Ben Hur (1959) - Flavia (uncredited)
- Un eroe del nostro tempo (1960)
- Madame Sans-Gêne (1962) - Elisa Bonaparte
- Jessica (1962) - Filippella Risino
- Damon and Pythias (1962) - Mereka - Nerissa's Friend
- Swordsman of Siena (1962) - Countess of Osta
- Cleopatra (1963) - Queen at Tarsus (uncredited)
- Face in the Rain (1963) - Anna
- Monsieur (1964) - Madame Danoni
- Le conseguenze (1964) - Elena
- Made in Italy (1965) - Bored Diner (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 1")
- An Angel for Satan (1966) - Illa
- The Stranger Returns (aka A Man, a Horse, a Gun) (1967) - Ethel
- Qualcuno ha tradito (1967) - Ann
- Temptation (1969)
- If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969) - Gina
- Hate Is My God (1969) - Blanche Durand
- Strada senza uscita (1969) - Mother of Sergio
- Safety Catch (1970) - La soeur d'Alberta
- La califfa (1970) - Clementine Doberdò - la moglie di Annibale
- Tre nel mille (1971)
- Pianeta Venere (1972)
- Buona parte di Paolina (1973)
- What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974) - Mrs. Polvesi
- The Divine Nymph (1974-1975) - Manoela's Aunt
- Night Train Murders (1975) - Laura Stradi - madre di una delle vittime
- Moses the Lawgiver (1975) - Eliseba
- Don Milani (1976) - La professoressa
- Garofano rosso (1976)
- Jesus of Nazareth (1977) - Elizabeth
- A Spiral of Mist (1977) - Constanza San Germano
- The Repenter (1985)
- L'ultima mazurka (1986) - Signora in treno
- La posta in gioco (1988)
- Ostinato destino (1992) - Eva Meyer
- Dall'altra parte del mondo (1992)
- Amen. (2002) - La Principessa (final film role)
She was married to the Italian actor Claudio Gora from 1944 until his death in 1998. She was the mother of actor Andrea Giordana and actress Marina Giordana.
