Maria Cumani Quasimodo
Acting • Born 1908-05-20 – Died 1995-11-22
Biography
Maria Cumani Quasimodo was an Italian actress and dancer. Born Maria Cumani in Milan, she studied dance under Jia Ruskaja. In 1936, she became the companion of the poet Salvatore Quasimodo, with whom she had a son, Alessandro. In 1937, she made her professional debut as a dancer, and shortly later she specialized in "poetic dance", a personal style in which dance was combined with poetic verses. She was married to Quasimodo from 1948 to 1960. In the meanwhile, Cumani Quasimodo started a double career as a choreographer and a stage and film character actress. Shortly before her death, she released an autobiography, L'arte del silenzio, which particularly focuses on her years alongside Salvatore Quasimodo. - Wiki
Filmography
25 credits
Galileo
Movie • 1968
All the Colours of the Dark
Movie • 1972
Elderly Neighbor
Pulp
Movie • 1972
Office Manageress
Nosferatu in Venice
Movie • 1988
Princess
She
Movie • 1984
Moona
The House of Witchcraft
Movie • 1989
Witch
The Laughing Woman
Movie • 1969
Sayer's Secretary
Riot in a Women's Prison
Movie • 1974
Ursula - the Mother Superior
Summer Frenzy
Movie • 1964
Julia
The Subversives
Movie • 1967
Ludovico's Mother
Heart
Movie • 1973
La Nonna
Veruschka - Poetry of a Woman
Movie • 1971
The Two Missionaries
Movie • 1974
Marchesa Gonzaga
The Nun and the Devil
Movie • 1973
Lavinia
The Baby Sitter
Movie • 1975
Princess Ruspini (uncredited)
Five Women for the Killer
Movie • 1974
Marta
Beautiful, Rich, Slight Physical Defect, Seeks Soulmate
Movie • 1973
la madre di Teresa
Behind Convent Walls
Movie • 1978
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Movie • 1966
Baronessa Cornianu
Teresa
Movie • 1987
contessa madre
L'inquilina del piano di sopra
Movie • 1978
Play-Boy
Movie • 1967
Baroness
I Do Not Forgive... I Kill!
Movie • 1968
Night Is Made for Stealing
Movie • 1967
Olga
Medea
Movie • 1969
(uncredited)