43 Facts About Marina Pierro

Marina Pierro has been described as an "erotic icon of auteur cinema" and she has referred to herself as Walerian Borowczyk's muse.

Marina Pierro was born in Boscotrecase in the Campanese region of Italy.

Marina Pierro spent her childhood and adolescence in Turin where her family had moved a few years after Marina Pierro's birth.

At an early age, Marina Pierro showed talent in drawing and painting, which led her to artistic studies.

Marina Pierro followed photography and theatre courses; studied French; had interests in astrology, esotericism, and psychoanalysis; and maintained a passion for cinema and acting.

Marina Pierro moved to Rome and began a career in modelling, doing fashion spreads for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar and Vogue Italia, whilst looking for film work.

Marina Pierro mentioned she was going to appear alongside James Mason and Luciana Paluzzi in a film by Allen Reisner titled Greenhouse Flower, but this project never eventuated.

Marina Pierro played a maid in the 1976 film I prosseneti, written and directed by Brunello Rondi.

Marina Pierro played an assistant physiotherapist in Alfredo Rizzo's comedy Sorbole.

Marina Pierro appeared in Dario Argento's supernatural horror film Suspiria as an uncredited extra before her first prominent role, as the self-styled stigmatic nun Sister Veronica in Walerian Borowczyk's 1977 film Interno di un Convento, based upon Stendhal's Promenades dans Rome.

Marina Pierro noticed a picture of me in the actors' yearbook and he asked to meet me.

Marina Pierro was walking around me while asking me questions.

Marina Pierro had this particular gift of finding unpredictable, unheard-of association between things that were apparently disparate.

Marina Pierro had practiced these Eastern arts, and she found it strange mixing this aspect of the character with her real life.

Marina Pierro said he'd look around and find a character for me to play, taken from the history of Italian art.

Marina Pierro wants some of the good things in life and so she acts with a sort of mixture of naivete and deceit in order to get them.

Premiering in March 1979, Immoral Women drew mixed to negative reviews, although Marina Pierro's performance received praise.

Beautiful, indeed, like "La Fornarina" of Rome, [Marina Pierro] has the magnificent indifference [and] the cold sensuality of a heroine of Stendhal's Italian Chroniques, and the camera of Borowczyk pays a passionate homage.

Marina Pierro was lured away from her lover and her social class, and then preyed upon by men who believed wealth can and does control everything.

Marina Pierro liked the idea, but he didn't want to direct a remake, and he noticed that there wasn't a female character in the book.

Marina Pierro is reacting against the whole period in which she lives, the Victorian age.

Marina Pierro spent a lot of time wandering around with a bottle - but he always managed to hide it when he was on set.

Marina Pierro arrives on set and the film is already in his head.

Marina Pierro's face was utilized prominently in advertising of Docteur Jekyll et les femmes, including its trailer and posters; however, the title of the film itself became a source of contention, as Marina Pierro has remarked:.

Marina Pierro knew that his precedent would be followed by others, which did happen regularly.

In 1982, Marina Pierro had a notable role in cult filmmaker Jean Rollin's French horror film La Morte Vivante as Helene, the friend and blood-sister of the titular character.

Marina Pierro had met Rollin briefly at the 1981 Sitges Film Festival, where Docteur Jekyll et les femmes was shown in competition and Rollin's film Fascination was screening.

Rollin later stated that Marina Pierro had a fiery temperament that was good for her character.

Also in 1982, Marina Pierro appeared in the Italian television miniseries La quinta donna and posed in a nude photoshoot for an issue of the Italian edition of Playboy magazine.

The film's coda takes place in the present day, with Marina Pierro playing Claudine Cartier, a young archaeologist en route from Rome to Paris.

Marina Pierro has contended Art of Love is one of Borowczyk's best films; upon the film's UK home video release in 1993, Marina Pierro pointed out how its humour has been overlooked:.

Borowczyk delivered a press conference on the subject of the film and scouted filming locations in Tunisia, and Marina Pierro discussed the film in interviews:.

The Neferiti project was aborted during pre-production, and Marina Pierro took some time off films to appear in avant-garde theatre in Rome.

Marina Pierro spent time writing pieces for theatre as well as a screenplay loosely inspired by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu.

In 1987, Marina Pierro appeared in an episode of Carlo Di Carlo's television miniseries Cinque storie inquietanti.

Marina Pierro then starred in Walerian Borowczyk's final feature-length film, 1987's love poem Ceremonie d'amour as Miriam Gwen, a sultry, mysterious and philosophical prostitute who meets and lures the vain and naive clothes buyer Hugo in the Paris Metro before seducing and torturing him.

Michael Brooke, a writer specializing in European cinema and an enthusiast of Borowczyk's films, has suggested the importance of Marina Pierro in evaluating the director's work:.

Marina Pierro is an extraordinary actress who combines a sullen sensuality with an ethereal, almost nervous intensity.

Marina Pierro's white skin, jet black hair and hypnotic eyes have made her an unforgettable presence in five films from the Polish born master of erotic cinema, Walerian Borowczyk.

In Versi is a 25-minute film starring Marina Pierro and is set in the library of the Abbey of Saint Scholastica, Subiaco.

Marina Pierro's 9-minute film Floaters is a portrait of Alessio Pierro.

Marina Pierro has stated she is writing a book titled Ali d'inchiostro about "the artistic path" that united her and Borowczyk, and she is working on a film project based on a story by Gustav Meyrink.

Nevertheless, Marina Pierro has remained a staunch defender of Borowczyk, stating,.