Ilaria Occhini (28 March 1934 – 20 July 2019) was an Italian stage, television and film actress. She appeared in more than 30 films.

Born in Florence, niece and daughter of novelists, Occhini started her film career at 19 with the Luciano Emmer's comedy film Terza Liceo with the stage name Isabella Redi, then attended the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in Rome, graduating in 1957. The same year she back to acting with Mario Monicelli's Il medico e lo stregone, and at the same time she debuted on stage with Luchino Visconti's La ragazza delle smirne and had her first leading role in the Anton Giulio Majano's TV series Jane Eyre. In 1959 she appeared in the television adaptation The Vicar of Wakefield.

Her mother, Gioconda Papini (1910-1954), was one of the two daughters of writer Giovanni Papini and his wife Giacinta Giovagnoli, the other being writer Viola Paszkowski Papini. Her father was writer, art historian and journalist Barna Occhini (pseudonym of Carlo Luigi Occhini) (1905-1978), the son of senator Pier Ludovico Occhini and his wife Maria Luisa Tettamanzi.

Occhini obtained her major successes on stage, working several times with Luchino Visconti, then joining the Piccolo Teatro of Naples, where she received large critical appreciation by interpreting classical and contemporary authors. She was also a constant presence of RAI television series, and also starred in many films, but rarely in leading roles.

In 1992 Occhini won the Nastro d'Argento for best supporting role for her performance in Benvenuti in Casa Gori. In 2008 she was awarded Best Actress at the Locarno International Film Festival for her role in Mar Nero. In 2010 she won a David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Loose Cannons; the same year she was awarded with a special Nastro d'Argento for her career.

She married screenwriter and author Raffaele La Capria, with whom she had a daughter, Alexandra.

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Ilaria Occhini, connue aussi sous le nom de scène d'Isabella Redi (née le 28 mars 1934 à Florence et morte le 20 juillet 2019 dans la même ville) est une actrice italienne.

Petite-fille de Giovanni Papini, un écrivain très célèbre en Italie, Ilaria Occhini commence sa carrière d'actrice dans des films historiques et surtout des péplums dont le plus connu est Carthage en flammes (1960) aux côtés de José Suárez, Daniel Gélin et Pierre Brasseur.

Puis elle tourne dans Brigade antigangs (1965) et dans un film de Serge Korber: Les Feux de la Chandeleur (1972). Elle est Clothilde, un rôle de deuxième couteau, mais très remarquable dans les scènes en confrontation avec la fille Laura (Claude Jade) de son amant Alexandre (Jean Rochefort), qui veut retrouver son ex-épouse Marie-Louise (Annie Girardot). La fille dit une phrase: «Vous êtes très délicieux». C'est exactement l'actrice dans son rôle plus célèbre dans les années 1970.

Ilaria Occhini joue encore dans Deux Hommes dans la ville (1973) où elle incarne Sophie, l'épouse fidèle de Gino (Alain Delon). Dans les années 1980, elle tourne pour la télévision (entre autres Elvia Puccini dans le feuilleton consacré à la vie du célèbre compositeur Giacomo Puccini). Dans le cinéma allemand, elle tourne dans le rôle de Severina aux côtés de Mario Adorf dans le film Pizza Colonia.

En 2001, elle retourne au grand écran aux côtés d'Ornella Muti dans Domani.

Ilaria Occhini épouse en 1966 l'écrivain Raffaele La Capria.

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