It takes more than talent to make a name for an actress; it takes good looks, charisma and a lot of hard work to get both in front of the camera and on stage. Luckily, Greta Scacchi had what it took to become the iconic house name she is today. In addition, she is fluent in English, French, German and Italian. This undoubtedly made her a top choice for European casting directors, helping her to play her role in film and securing her a place in European entertainment history, which landed her on the international entertainment scene.
Greta Scacchi Bio
On February 18, 1960 in Milan, Italy, Greta Scacchi was welcomed into the world by her parents; Luca Scacchi and Pamela Risbey. Her father, who is Italian, makes a living as an art dealer and painter, while her mother, who is English, is a dancer and antiques dealer. She has two older brothers.
Around the age of 4, Scaccchidivorced’s parents and mother returned to England with her three children. The family first settled in London before moving to Haywards Heath, West Sussex. It is not known exactly when her mother found love again and remarried. However, her family moved to Perth, Australia in 1975 after her stepfather became a visiting professor at the University of Western Australia.
In Perth, Greta Scacchi attended Hollywood Senior High School and was a member of the drama society at the University of Western Australia. It was around this time that she made her theatrical debut at the New Dolphin Theater in the Edward Bond play, Early in the Morning
Scacchi returned to England in 1977 to study at Bristol Old Vic Theater School. After five years, she managed to make her film debut in Das Zweite Gesicht (1982), a German film which translates to The Second Face. As her film career took off, she managed to land a wide range of theater roles, appearing in Cider with Rosie at the Phoenix Arts Theatre, Leicester and In Times Like These at the Bristol Old Vic. Other films in which she had outstanding performances around the same time include: Heat and Dust (1983), The Ebony Tower (1984), White Mischief (1987),Presumed Innocent (1990), The Gambler (1992), and Country Life (1994).
In 1996, Greta Scacchi performed the award-winning role of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna of Russia in Rasputin: Dark Servant of Fate. The same year, she played the role of Cecilia in Sam Shepard. Simpatico at the Sydney Theater Company. In 1999, she had an award-winning performance in the film Finding Alibrandi and also played the lead role in Easy Virtue.
Having appeared in several films and series as well as acting in the late 1990s, Scacchi continued to balance her roles in the early 2000s. In 2001 she returned to Sydney to play Kate in Harold Pinter. Old times while playing in the Film Festival at Cannes as Alice Palmer. In the following years she played Margaret Thatcher in Jeffrey Archer: The Truth (2002) and Julia Reuter in Baltic Storm (2003) before touring Italy with an Italian production of Vecchi Tempi
In 2005 she appeared in Thea Sharrock’s production of The Private Life of Noël Coward at the Theater Royal, Bath. The following year, she starred as Nola Johns in the western film Broken Path (2006).
Greta Scacchi’s daughter
In the early 90s, Greta Scacchi began dating actor Vincent D’Onofrio. Although it’s unclear how long the relationship lasted, they had a daughter, Leila George, in 1992. In 1998, Scacchi welcomed another child, a son named Matteo with her husband, Carlo Mantegazza.
Not much is known about the early life of Scacchi’s daughter Leila George, who made headlines after she was pictured kissing Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn in 2016. That’s because her parents kept her out of the spotlight. born in Sydney, Australia, then brought up somewhere around Brighton, UK.
The young woman has publicly stated that she is afraid to follow in her parents’ footsteps as they have achieved so much in the film industry. Despite this, she enrolled at the Strasberg Institute in New York and is now pursuing an acting career, appearing alongside James Franco and Tori Spelling in the Lifetime TV movie. Mother, can I sleep with danger? (2016).
Where is the Australian-Italian actress now?
Greta Scacchi is still very active in boththe world of theater and cinema. The Australian-Italian actress, who was named a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in October 2013, has recently appeared in films like Final Operation (2018) and Palm Beach (2019).
On the theater front, she is most recently known for appearing in a revival of John Osborne The Artist at the Garrick Theater in London’s West End, playing the character of Phoebe Rice.
