The Italian Hollywood actress Virna Lisi died Thursday at the age of 78. Courted by the greatest directors, the actress received the Best Actress award at Cannes in 1994 for her role as Catherine de Medici in “La Reine Margot”.

She has worked with the greatest directors of Rome, Paris and Hollywood . Italian actress Virna Lisi died at the age of 78, Thursday, December 18, in the Italian capital. His son was quoted by Italian media, which announced the news, adding that the actress had died in his sleep as a result of an incurable disease.

Italian face of Madonna Hollywood imagined in new Marilyn, she was led by the biggest, Alberto Lattuada Mario Monicelli, through Dino Risi, Henri Verneuil and Joseph Losey.

In nearly 80 films for the big screen and forty television, the Italian goddess appeared in multiform records, daring move vamp roles to those aged woman, ugly, unrecognizable but still dazzling.

After a 40 year career, she received the Best Actress Award at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and a Cesar for his powerful rendition of Catherine de Medici in “La Reine Margot” by Patrice Chéreau.

With her free and brave woman goes, very brave and rare beauty and yet anti-diva, responded the president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Laura Boldrini, while the Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, lamented the loss of an actress who preserved style and sobriety.

Born in Ancona, Italy, November 8, 1936, Virna Pieralisi, whose real name, spends his early years before settling in Rome with his family. She was 16 when the singer Giacomo Rondinella, a friend of his parents, convinced them to let her play with him in a small musical “E Napoli canta.

She continued with small roles ingenue to The Woman of the Day by Francesco Maselli (1956) and dramatic roles on television.

Virna also trod the boards with Vittorio Gassman, who presents to Giorgio Strehler, director of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. In spring 1956, the director Lucile Desmoulins interpret him in “The Jacobins” Federico Zardi, alongside Serge Reggiani Robespierre.