20 Facts About Giovanna Mezzogiorno

Giovanna Mezzogiorno is an Italian theatre and film actress.

Giovanna Mezzogiorno made her stage debut with the role of Ofelia in Qui est la, based on Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Giovanna Mezzogiorno received the Premio Coppola-Prati 1996, the jury was presided over by theatre critic Franco Quadri.

Giovanna Mezzogiorno was awarded the Targa d'Argento as the New Talent in Italian Cinema, she was given the Grolla d'oro, and the Globo d'Oro by the Foreign Press Association and the Premio Flaiano as Best Actress of the 1997 - 1998 season.

In 1998, Giovanna Mezzogiorno starred in the film Del perduto amore directed by Michele Placido, with Fabrizio Bentivoglio and Sergio Rubini and, for the Italian National Television Network RaiDue, in a film made-for-TV Piu leggero non basta in the role of a young girl with muscular dystrophy, directed by Elisabetta Lodoli with Stefano Accorsi.

In 1999, Giovanna Mezzogiorno played the role of Silvia, daughter of Enzo Tortora by whose mistaken conviction the film was inspired.

Giovanna Mezzogiorno worked in Denmark in Nobel, directed by Fabio Carpi, with Hector Alterio.

In 2001, Giovanna Mezzogiorno appeared in the film Malefemmene with Angela Molina and directed by Fabio Conversi, in the role of Francesca, who was imprisoned following a judicial error and came into contact with the reality of friendship and attachment which she had never imagined possible.

Giovanna Mezzogiorno worked on Stai con me, with Adriano Giannini and directed by Livia Giampalmo, in the role of a mother of twins.

Giovanna Mezzogiorno starred in France in the Holocaust-period TV drama Entrusted, directed by Giacomo Battiato, with Klaus Maria Brandauer, Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Steven Moyer, based on Loup Duran's best-seller.

Giovanna Mezzogiorno starred in the film L'amore ritorna, directed by Sergio Rubini, costarring Fabrizio Bentivoglio and Margherita Buy.

Giovanna Mezzogiorno worked in France, on the set of her first comedy: Au secours, j'ai 30 ans, directed by Marie-Anne Chazel, with Pierre Palmade.

In 2004, Giovanna Mezzogiorno worked in the TV movie Virginia, directed by Alberto Sironi.

Giovanna Mezzogiorno then returned to the theatre, working with the director Piero Maccarinelli in 4.48 Psicosi, written by Sarah Kane.

In 2006, Giovanna Mezzogiorno acted in AD Project, a sci-fi thriller by Eros Puglielli, and acted in "Lezioni di Volo" by Francesca Archibugi.

Giovanna Mezzogiorno travelled to Colombia to become Fermina Daza, the principal female character from Love in the Time of Cholera based on the book written by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez and directed by Mike Newell.

Giovanna Mezzogiorno narrated and produced a documentary to celebrate the career of her father Vittorio, 15 years after his sudden death in 1994.

Giovanna Mezzogiorno was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2010.

In 2017, Giovanna Mezzogiorno appeared in the role of Adriana in the film called Napoli velata.

Giovanna Mezzogiorno has two sons, Leone and Zeno, born 26 August 2011.