Nickname:	La Magnani / Nannarella
Known for:	Open City, The Rose Tattoo, Mamma Roma
Birthday:	7 March 1908, Rome, Latium, Italy
Height:	5' 3" (1.60 m)

Tennessee Williams, after meeting her, said, "I never saw a more beautiful woman, enourmous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream." Her beloved son Luca is the result of a brief affair with Italian matinee idol Massimo Serato. Her friendship with Tennessee Williams was the subject of an Off-Broadway play in New York, Roman Nights, by Franco D'Alessandro, which starred Franca Barchiesi as Magnani and Roy Miller as Tennessee Williams. It is currently being prepared as a film. Convinced that she would never win the Oscar for "The Rose Tattoo," she didn't attend the ceremony, and the reporter who woke her out of a sound sleep in Rome to give her the news had a difficult time convincing her he wasn't kidding. "You're lying," Magnini supposedly said. "If this is a joke, I'll kill you!" Grandmother of Italian actress Olivia Magnani Tennessee Williams wrote the role of Serafina in his play "The Rose Tattoo" for Anna Magnani, but her English skills were too limited to appear in the 1951 Broadway production. Instead, Maureen Stapleton played the role to great acclaim. Stapleton also would originate the role of Lady Torrance in Williams' "Orpheus Descending," a role Magnani also would play on film. Is portrayed by Lina Sastri in Celluloid

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