Premio Interprete del Presente 2024
Wednesday 3 July at 19:00 at the Teatro Miela
Wednesday 3 July at 19:00 at the Teatro Miela
A rare, pure-blooded performer, she has the vision and vista of a playwright and director, a dynamic stage presence, cinematic physique and timing. She touches on all four thematic cardinal points of sentiment, irony, drama and action with rational sensitivity and sincerity of expression. Isabella Ragonese, thanks also to her colouring and the eyes of the Palermo-Norman woman, has magnetic and coherent versatility as an actress with wide-ranging role choices, making an impact through a natural beauty on stage and in films. In just 26 films she has received no less than five nominations for the Nastri d’Argento and four for the David di Donatello, she has just received the Nastro d’Argento Grandi Serie TV award for leading actress for her multifaceted, disciplined, tormented role in the prison noir Il re. In similar heavyweight serials she was also a wife in flashbacks in seasons of Rocco Schiavone and an almost filial exemplar in Solo per passione – Letizia Battaglia fotografa, a biopic of the inimitable fellow citizen, photographer and not just of the mafia. She made her film debut in 2006 with Crialese’s remarkable Nuovomondo and established herself for her uncommon exuberance in Virzì’s Tutta la vita davanti and Mieli’s Dieci inverni paired with Michele Riondino. She was then directed by Luchetti, Martone, Mazzacurati and Cecere in two notable pioneering roles, as well as Johnson, Tavarelli, Cipani and Mollo in the complex Il padre d’Italia, and Vicari in the memorable Sole cuore amore in which she is a spirited wife and mother with a destiny of death at work. In 2023 she was extraordinary in temperament and with an undercover agent vibe in the brutal action film Come pecore in mezzo ai lupi by the talented newcomer Patitucci. Her theatrical grounding? She writes plays, directs and has successfully performed in works by Massini, Kelly, Ritsos and in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, and recently the unruly modern Clitennestra by Tóibín, beautifully directed by Andò. Isabella Ragonese is also fundamentally sympathetic/empathetic with peculiar sùn-pàthos, having undoubtedly inherited genes as a creature of the eternal Magna Graecia.
Maurizio di Rienzo
Actress and playwright, Isabella Ragonese received her acting diploma from the Scuola Teatès in the year 2000. In cinema, she made her debut with Emanuele Crialese’s Nuovomondo; she then starred in Paolo Virzì’s film Tutta la vita davanti, which earned her a nomination for the Nastro d’Argento as best leading actress. In 2008 at the Festival Teatro e Colline she staged with great success a play she wrote and performed, entitled Mamùr. She then had parts in Donatella Maiorca’s Viola di mare, Alessandro Aronadio’s Due vite per caso, Luca Lucini’s Oggi sposi, Valerio Mieli’s Dieci inverni and Silvio Muccino’s Un altro mondo. In 2010, with the film La nostra vita directed by Daniele Luchetti, she won the Nastro d’Argento as best supporting actress. In the same year she acted for the first time in a TV production, in one of the Il commissario Montalbano films, and was also godmother of the 67th Venice International Film Festival. In 2011 she was on stage with Will Eno’s monologue Lady Grey. In 2012 she was awarded the Shooting Star prize at the Berlin Film Festival as the best European talent of the year. In 2013 she filmed Carlo Mazzacurati’s La sedia della felicità, Gianluca Tavarelli’s Una storia sbagliata and Mario Martone’s Il giovane favoloso. In 2022 she starred in Come pecore in mezzo ai lupi, and the following year returned to the stage with a performance in Clitennestra, also touring in 2024.
2023 Come pecore in mezzo ai lupi
2021 Yara
Il giorno e la notte
Lei mi parla ancora
2019 Mio fratello rincorre i dinosauri
2017 Questione di karma
2016 Sole cuoe amore
2015 Dobbiamo parlare
In un posto bellissimo
Una storia sbagliata
Fino a qui tutto bene
2014 Il giovane favoloso
La sedia della felicità
2011 Cuore di clown
Il giorno in più
2010 Un altro mondo
Il primo incarico
La nostra vita
2009 Oggi sposi
Dieci inverni
Due vite per caso
Viola di mare
2008 Il cosmo sul comò
Tutta la vita davanti
2006 Nuovomondo
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