![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: August 10, 1960 in Italy Biography:Italian actress "Nicoletta Braschi" is best known to international audiences for her collaborations with her husband, actor and director "Roberto Benigni", and with American director "Jim Jarmusch". A fine-boned beauty with a particular talent for portraying long-suffering women, Braschi first worked with Benigni on his 1983 comedy "Tu Mi Turbi". Three years later, she collaborated with both Benigni and Jarmusch on the latter's "Down by Law", playing a woman who falls in love with an escaped con (Benigni). Braschi also starred in Jarmusch's "Mystery Train" (1989), in which she played an Italian woman trying to get the ashes of her dead husband back to Rome.
Braschi's two most successful collaborations with her husband have been "Johnny Stecchino" (1992) and "La Vita รจ Bella" (1997). The first, an Italian comedy that cast the actress as the girlfriend of a mobster (Benigni), was a huge hit in Italy,... Full Biography
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