Anna Maria Ferrero

Anna Maria Ferrero (born 18 February 1934) is an Italian actress.

Anna Maria Guerra was born in Rome on 18 February 1934, though some sources cite 1931 as her year of birth. She changed her last name to Ferrero in honor of the composer Willy Ferrero. Her film debut came at the age of 15 in Il cielo è rosso (1950), and she was soon cast in such films as Il duca di Sant'Elmo (1950) and Il Cristo proibito (1951), the only movie directed by the noted writer Curzio Malaparte.

Ferrero with Maurizio Arena, 1953

Ferrero's career progressed quickly as she worked with prominent directors, such as Michelangelo Antonioni on I vinti, and actors, like Marcello Mastroianni in Carlo Lizzani's award-winning Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1953). She appeared with the popular comedian Totò in Totò e Carolina (1953) and with star Alberto Sordi in Una parigina a Roma (1954).

She often worked with Italian star Vittorio Gassman and they appeared together in six films: Lorenzaccio, King Vidor's War and Peace, Kean, which Gassman co-directed, Giovanni dalle bande nere, Le sorprese dell'amore, and Il mattatore.

Ferrero chose to end her career shortly after her 1963 marriage to French actor Jean Sorel, her co-star in two films: Gold of Rome (1961) and Four Days in Naples (1962). Her last on-screen appearance was in an episode of the movie Controsesso (1964), directed by Ettore Scola.

Nino Manfredi and Ferrero in The Employee (1960)

Ferrero and Jean Sorel in 1966

• The Count of Saint Elmo (il Conte di Sant'Elmo) (1950)
• The Sky Is Red (Il Cielo è rosso) (1950) .... Giulia
• Lorenzaccio (1951)
• The Forbidden Christ (Il Cristo proibito) (1951) .... Maria
• Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951) .... Giulia
• The Temptress (Le due verità) (1952) .... Maria-Luce Carlinet
• Half a Century of Song (Canzoni di mezzo secolo) (1952)
• Poppy (Lo sai che i papaveri) (1952) .... Pierina Zacchi
• The Mute of Portici Muta di Portici, La (1952)
• Ragazze da marito (1952)
• Verdi, the King of Melody (Giuseppe Verdi) (1953) .... Margherita Barezzi Verdi
• It Happened in the Park (1953) .... The girl student
• Youth and Perversion (I vinti) (1953) .... Marina
• Luxury Girls (Fanciulle di lusso) (1953) .... Valerie De Beranger
• The Unfaithfuls (Le infedeli) (1953) .... Cesarina
• Captain Phantom (Capitan Fantasma) (1953) (uncredited)
• Eager to Live (Febbre di vivere) (1953) .... Elena
• Neapolitans in Milan (Napoletani a Milano) (1953) .... Nannina
• Siamo tutti inquilini (1953) .... Anna Perrini
• Viva la rivista! (1953)
• Una parigina a Roma (1954) .... Fiorella
• Chronicle of Poor Lovers (Cronache di poveri amanti) (1954) .... Gesuina
• Guai ai vinti (1954) .... Clara
• Songs of Italy (1955)
• The Widow (La vedova X) (1955) .... Adriana
• The golden falcon (Il falco d'oro) (1955) .... Fiammetta
• The Rival (La rivale) (1955) .... Barbara
• Toto and Carolina (Totò e Carolina) (1955) .... Carolina De Vico
• War and Peace (1956) .... Mary Bolkonsky
• Cime tempestose (1956) (TV mini-series)
• The Violent Patriot (Giovanni dalle bande nere) (1956) .... Anna, peasant girl
• Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (Kean) (1956) .... Anna Damby
• Suprema confessione (it) (Suprema confessione) (1957) .... Giovanna Siri
• Desert Warrior (Los amantes del desierto) (1957)
• Captain Falcon (Capitan Fuoco) (1958) .... Anna
• Questa mia donna (1958) (TV)
• Bad Girls Don't Cry (la notte brava) (1959) .... Nicoletta
• Surprise of Love (Le sorprese dell'amore) (1959) .... Mariarosa
• Silver Spoon Set (I delfini) (1960) .... Marina
• Love and Larceny (il mattatore) (1960) .... Annalisa Rauseo
• Culpables (1960) .... Margarita
• Battle of Austerlitz (Austerlitz) (1960) .... Elisa Bonaparte
• The Employee (L'impiegato) (1960) .... Joan
• Gastone (1960) .... Nannina
• The Hunchback of Rome (Il gobbo) (1960) .... Ninetta
• Gold of Rome (L'oro di Roma) (1961) .... Giulia
• A Day for Lionhearts (Un giorno da leoni) (1961) .... Ida
• Captain Fracasse (Le Capitaine Fracasse) (1961) .... Marquise des Bruyères
• Always on Sunday (Una domenica d'estate) (1962)
• The Four Days of Naples (Le quattro giornate di Napoli) (1962)
• Un marito in condominio (1963) .... Giuliana
• Countersex (Controsesso) (1964) (segment "Cocaina di domenica") .... Marcella