1. Ornella Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in the 1970 film La moglie piu bella at the age of fourteen.
10 Facts About Ornella Muti
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Ornella Muti is one of the few Italian actresses to achieve an international career across Europe where she has worked with Pedro Maso, Francisco Lara Polop, Mario Camus, Vicente Aranda, Lucas Belvaux, Georges Lautner, Volker Schlondorff, Mike Hodges, Anthony Hickox, Mike Figgis, Peter Greenaway, and Grigory Chukhray.
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Ornella Muti's best known movies in Europe are Swann in Love in which she acted with Jeremy Irons and Alain Delon, The Bilingual Lover where she starred with Javier Bardem, Hotel, with Salma Hayek, David Schwimmer, Lucy Liu, Burt Reynolds, and John Malkovich, and The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story, a multimedia project by Peter Greenaway.
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Ornella Muti appeared in Love and Money, Oscar, Once upon a Crime, Somewhere in the City and To Rome with Love and in the American TV movies Casanova, Wait Until Spring, Bandini, A Season of Giants and one episode of The Hitchhiker TV series.
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In 2008, Ornella Muti introduced her own line of jewellery and subsequently opened several shops around the world.
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Ornella Muti avoided prison by paying 30,000 euros to the Verdi theatre as compensation.
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Ornella Muti has been married twice, first to Alessio Orano, from 1975 to 1981.
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Ornella Muti was married, secondly, to Federico Fachinetti, from 1988 to 1996.
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Ornella Muti died this year, and it would be a gift for her.
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In July 2022, Ornella Muti was criticised by right-wing and conservative politicians for supporting the legalisation of cannabis in Italy.