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Greta Scacchi (born February 18, 1960 in Milan, Italy) is an Emmy Award-winning film actress.

Scacchi was born the daughter of an English dancer mother and an Italian painter father. Her parents divorced when she was three, and her mother returned to England with Greta and her two older brothers. In 1975, the family (her mother had remarried) moved to Australia.

In 1977, Scacchi returned to England to pursue an acting career; she studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, with Miranda Richardson and Amanda Redman. In 1982, she made her film debut in the German movie Das Zweite Gesicht (The Second Face) and gave versatile performances in films such as Heat and Dust (1983), White Mischief (1987), Presumed Innocent (1990), The Player (1993), and Country Life (1994).

In 1996 she won an Emmy Award for her work in the television film Rasputin. She was nominated for a Golden Globe and numerous other awards.

Personal life

Between 1983 and 1989, Scacchi was romantically involved with New Zealand singer/songwriter Tim Finn. In 1991 she married American actor Vincent D'Onofrio. The marriage, which lasted approximately eighteen months, produced a daughter, Leila (born on March 20, 1992).

Scacchi also has a son, Matteo, (born in 1998), by her cousin (and companion), Carlo Mantegazza.

Filmography

• Das Zweite Gesicht (1982) German
• Dead On Time (1982/short), with Rowan Atkinson
• Heat and Dust (1983), by James Ivory
• Waterfront (1984) TV mini-series
• Camille (1984) TV movie
• The Ebony Tower (1984)
• The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)
• Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1985) Australian TV movie
• Burke & Wills (1985)
• Defence of the Realm (1985)
• Carve You In Marble (August 1986) Tim Finn pop video
• Un homme amoureux (1987), by Diane Kurys
• Good Morning, Babylon (1987) Italian
• White Mischief (1987)
• Three Sisters (1988)
• La donna della luna (1988) (aka The Moon Woman) Italian
• Presumed Innocent (1990)
• Fires Within (1991)
• Shattered (1991)
• Turtle Beach (1992)
• The Player (1992) by Robert Altman
• Salt on Our Skin (1992)
• The Browing Version (1994)
• Country Life (1994)
• Jefferson in Paris (1995), by James Ivory
• Rasputin (1996) TV movie - Scacchi won an Emmy for her performance
• Cosi (1996)
• Emma (1996)
• The Serpent's Kiss (1997)
• The Odyssey (1997) TV movie
• Macbeth (1998) TV movie
• Le Violon rouge (1998) (The Red Violin) French
• Love and Rage (1998)
• The Manor (1999)
• Tom's Midnight Garden (1999)
• Cotton Mary (1999), by Ismail Merchant
• Ladies Room (1999)
• Looking for Alibrandi (2000)
• One of the Hollywood Ten (2000)
• Christmas Glory 2000 (2000) TV movie
• Festival in Cannes (2001)
• The Farm (2001) TV miniseries
• Daniel Deronda (2002) TV miniseries
• Jeffrey Archer: The Truth (2002) TV movie
• Baltic Storm (2003)
• Il Ronzio delle mosche (2003) (The Buzz of the Flies) Italian
• Sotto falso nome (2004) (Under False Name) filmed Switzerland, dialogue French with Italian bit.
• Beyond the Sea (2004)
• Flightplan (2005)
• Syriana (2005) (Scenes deleted)
• The Book Of Revelation (2006)

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