Angela Finocchiaro
Angela Finocchiaro (b. Milan, 20 November 1955) is an Italian actress. She began her theatrical career early in the 1970s, with significant experience in the experimental company Quelli di Grock . At the same time, after high school, she enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine while also attending the Accademia Filodrammatici in Milan. A popular theater comedian since the early 1970s, in 1979 she was chosen by Maurizio Nichetti for the film Ratataplan. Since then, she has alternated between theater, film, and television roles.
She won the David di Donatello Award twice for Best Supporting Actress for Don't Tell (2005) and My Brother Is an Only Child (2007).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9021 |
| Birthday | 1955-11-20 |
| Place of Birth | Milano, Italy |
| Also Known As |
2021
All'alba perderò
6.4/5
The film recounts failure in a fun and constructive way, often experienced as an indelible shame and almost never as a precious opportunity for growth...
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All'alba perderò
2023
Lust for Life
5.463/27
A couple in crisis after the birth of their first son rekindles their love during a trip to Norway.
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Lust for Life
2008
A Perfect Day
6.4/116
Antonio and Emma have been separated for years, but he does not accept when Emma dates other men. Indeed Antonio proves obsessive, aggressive and intr...
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A Perfect Day
2007
My Brother Is an Only Child
6.725/416
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Acc...
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My Brother Is an Only Child
1993
Here Comes the Storm
6.143/14
Depressed magistrate Damiano Fortezza relocates from Milan to a small town in Campania, where the three Fontana sisters, owners of a chain of incinera...
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Here Comes the Storm
1986
Il burbero
6.356/108
Traveling from New York to Italia, pretty Mary rushes into moody macho lawyer Tito. The girl immediately falls for the guy with the gruffy manners and...
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Il burbero
2010
Me, Them and Lara
5.6/315
A priest, after spending years in humanitary missions in Africa, reunites with his family, which is in worse conditions than when he left, and above a...
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Me, Them and Lara
1976
Allegro non troppo
7.1/120
An enterprising producer believes he has hit upon a winning concept: a program of original animated shorts set to classical music. Undeterred by warni...
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Allegro non troppo
1988
It's Happening Tomorrow
6.071/7
1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, dams...
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It's Happening Tomorrow
2004
Don't Move
7.002/303
While waiting for the brain surgery of his daughter Angela, victim of a motorcycle accident, the surgeon Timoteo recalls his torrid affair with and pa...
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Don't Move
1979
Ratataplan
6.9/36
Misadventures of Colombo, an engineer in Milano. He is the only winner of an admission test for a job, and just for this reason he isn't hired. So he...
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Ratataplan
2010
Welcome to the South
6.7/1878
Alberto, post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia, is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Ev...
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Welcome to the South
2006
Don't Tell
6.1/90
Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time...
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Don't Tell
1992
Per non dimenticare
0/0
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Per non dimenticare
2023
Gym Class
5.931/72
Three middle school parents are summoned by the principal after their children are implicated in a serious incident. In the gym, transformed into an i...
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Gym Class
2004
13 at a Table
6.607/14
Giulio, a divorced middle-aged man, returns to the family villa in Tuscany where he spent his childhood holidays with his entire family, to arrange, w...
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13 at a Table
1992
Stubborn Fate
5.079/19
Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homos...
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Stubborn Fate
2009
The New Monsters Today
4.594/53
Talks about the fears, vices and weaknesses that bedevil the contemporary Italian society. Highlights the degeneration that is plaguing certain quarte...
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The New Monsters Today
2012
Welcome to the North
5.776/1355
Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time a...
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Welcome to the North
2008
Amore, bugie e calcetto
5.823/223
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Amore, bugie e calcetto
2010
The Santa Claus Gang
6.032/1097
On Christmas Eve, three friends dressed as Santa Claus are arrested in what looks like an attempted burglary and charged with being the infamous "Sant...
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The Santa Claus Gang
2011
Bar Sport
5.013/239
Inside Bar Sport, a bar on the outskirts of Bologna managed by the histrionic Onassis, the adventures of regulars and casual patrons unfold. Searching...
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Bar Sport
1991
The Invisible Wall
6.9/47
June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on board....
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The Invisible Wall
1991
To Want to Fly
6.353/52
Maurizio works in a dubbing studio and puts sound effects into cartoons. One day his hands turn into cartoon ones, with a life of their own.
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To Want to Fly
2007
Lezioni di volo
6.265/17
A pair of teen friends – known as "Chicken & Curry" because they are virtually inseparable – fail their high school finals and try to cover it by clai...
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Lezioni di volo
2011
Chocolate Kisses
5.51/99
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Chocolate Kisses
2024
Still Fabulous
5.582/147
Stuck in a dead-end career and on a string of terrible dates, the life of 30-something Maddalena is a total mess until one day, she meets an unlikely...
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Still Fabulous
1980
Ho Fatto Splash
6/20
Angela, Luisa, and Carlina are three roommates who live in a house in Milan. Maurizio, Carlina's eccentric cousin, joins the group after waking up fro...
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Ho Fatto Splash
2012
The sun inside
7.1/13
Yaguine and Fodé, two teenagers from African Guinea, wrote a letter to the "European Parlament great leaders", on behalf of all children and teens in...
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The sun inside
2013
Ci vuole un gran fisico
4.97/83
Torn between family and work, Eva is a woman enslaved by her sense of duty, always in a rush and invariably stressed. Four days shy of her fateful 50t...
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Ci vuole un gran fisico
2024
The Price of Nonna's Inheritance
5.588/113
When a grandmother falls for a cheeky suitor with dubious intentions, her family devises a secret plan to protect her life — and their inheritance.
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The Price of Nonna's Inheritance
2013
Indovina chi viene a Natale?
5.601/370
A very extended family gathers for the Christmas holidays, after the death of the breadwinner Leonardo Sereni, famous singer. The eldest son Julius, w...
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Indovina chi viene a Natale?
2014
A Boss in the Living Room
5.977/542
Cristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina’s home.
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A Boss in the Living Room
2022
The Price of Family
6.44/242
Heartbroken that their children no longer want to spend time with them, two parents fake an inheritance to bring the family together for Christmas.
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The Price of Family
2014
La scuola più bella del mondo
5.677/226
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La scuola più bella del mondo
2025
Amichemai
5.1/15
Anna Ricca is an enthusiastic veterinarian who divides her time between managing the farm and the many family roles that, in turn, make her an enamore...
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Amichemai
1992
Assolto per aver commesso il fatto
5.875/8
A former inspector of the SIAE, focusing everything on his cunning and stubbornness, tries to grab (even in fraudulent ways) all the televisions or pr...
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Assolto per aver commesso il fatto
2018
Le avventure del lupo
0/0
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Le avventure del lupo
2015
Latin Lover
5.747/81
The five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a...
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Latin Lover
2025
The Opera! Arias for an Eclipse
5.9/4
A sudden gunshot shatters the dream of two lovers on their wedding day. The fate of Orpheus and Eurydice is cruel: on the very day they sought to seal...
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The Opera! Arias for an Eclipse
2015
Vacanze ai Caraibi - Il film di Natale
4.63/308
While on holiday in the Caribbean, a bankrupt family pins their hopes on a rich man, two strangers fall in lust, and a technophile gets shipwrecked.
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Vacanze ai Caraibi - Il film di Natale
2023
Una madre
7/1
Deva is a young girl marked by a painful choice: the abortion of a child. Her chance encounter with a child will give her back, through a journey of p...
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Una madre
2025
Mrs. Christmas
5.4/29
When Santa Claus, in the midst of an existential crisis, suddenly disappears during the holiday season, his wife Margaret must roll up her sleeves and...
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Mrs. Christmas
2016
There's No Religion Anymore
5.364/243
Set on the small island of Porto Buio, the traditional live Christmas Nativity scene might not go ahead because the baby who’s always played Jesus has...
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There's No Religion Anymore
2008
The Cosmos on the Commode
5.183/885
Four comedic episodes framed within the story of a tyrannical Zen master and his two hapless disciples.
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The Cosmos on the Commode
2004
Signora
1.75/4
Rome, 1933. Sara, a beautiful, aristocratic American girl, wife of a rich entrepreneur, falls in love with Guido, a young engineer. They start a passi...
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Signora
1987
Man on Fire
5.676/88
Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swank...
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Man on Fire
2008
Dr. Clown
4/5
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Dr. Clown
1991
The Yes Man
7.008/62
Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.
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The Yes Man
2016
Assolo
4.955/55
A funny and intelligent comedy about a wonderfully flawed woman.
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Assolo
1998
The Last New Year's Eve
5.8/63
New year's eve at "The Islands" condos. An aging countess's party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo's town. While dressing for a dinner pa...
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The Last New Year's Eve
2008
Finalmente a casa
5.4/11
Carlo breaks up with his girlfriend and takes refuge in the house of Gigi and Alice Fumagalli, who has just left her job to be a homewife without tel...
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Finalmente a casa
2018
I'm Back
5.9/584
Benito Mussolini resurfaces in Rome 72 years after his death, as if not a single day had passed. Finding a country still full of problems, both old an...
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I'm Back
2019
Scappo a casa
5/169
Michele is a superficial man with nothing but contempt for other people and who lives only to show off his wealth on social media, until he finds hims...
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Scappo a casa
2020
La mia banda suona il pop
5.529/69
The Russian magnate Ivanov dreams about having The Popcorn, his favorite Italian musical band from the 80s in Saint Petersburg.
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La mia banda suona il pop
2015
La scena
0/0
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La scena
2009
Due mamme di troppo
0/0
Gabry and Lellè are two mothers who are temperamentally opposites. The first is a woman of the aristocracy, refined and in the latest fashion, while t...
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Due mamme di troppo
2020
Verdiana
0/0
After a big fight, a couple wakes up with an unbelievable problem: he can't speak and she can't hear anything. Doctors and exams are useless. A female...
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Verdiana
2020
Burraco fatale
3.7/67
Irma, Eugenia, Miranda and Rina are four different women, each with their own character, their own weaknesses and their own eccentricities, but linked...
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Burraco fatale
2021
Who Framed Santa Claus?
5.3/86
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Who Framed Santa Claus?
1995
Bidoni
0/0
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Bidoni
2022
Il mammone
5.553/95
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Il mammone
2019
Mi chiamo Altan e faccio vignette
0/0
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Mi chiamo Altan e faccio vignette
1990
Io, Peter Pan
7/1
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Io, Peter Pan
2007
Le ragazze di Milano
0/0
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Le ragazze di Milano
2026
It Will Happen Tonight
0/0
The film will explore contemporary emotions, fears, and relationships through intertwined stories, resembling Nevo's narrative style.
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It Will Happen Tonight
Il ministero dell’amore
0/0
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Il ministero dell’amore
2025
Nichetti quantestorie
0/0
The key stages in the career of director and actor Maurizio Nichetti, following his return with the film Amichemai. The documentary recounts his uniqu...
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Nichetti quantestorie
1997
Con rabbia e con amore
10/1
At a bus stop they meet Francesca, an eighteen year old who is collaborating in a veterinary office, and Claudio, a university student. The two begin...
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Con rabbia e con amore
2026
Still Sexy
5.257/35
Maddalena has it all: a job she loves, the perfect fiancé, and a dream wedding ahead. Yet in the bedroom, something feels wrong. Urged on by her inner...
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2054 Seele
6/1
Situated in the future, 2054 Seele reveals a scene in which the economic violence seems to have changed gender. A world in which artificial intelligen...
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2054 Seele
2026
Election Day
6.167/3
On the election night that will decide her political fate, MP Renata Innocenti sees her career teetering on the brink of ruin when her partner becomes...
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Election Day
2026
Bentornati al Sud
0/0
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Bentornati al Sud
2026
Solid Food
0/0
Claudia struggles to wean her baby alone. As breastfeeding becomes painful and the baby starts to lose weight, she seeks help from a lactation consult...
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