Alessandra Martines

Alessandra Martines is an Italian-French dancer and actress mainly working in the English, French and Italian speaking-worlds. She started young in ballet on opera stages in Switzerland, France, the United States and then Italy before becoming a lead on television for RAI captured ballets and entertainment shows in the eighties. She is primarily known for portraying the main role in the cult Fantaghirò series, consisting of five films still regularly re-run across Europe as of 2020, and for her work in auteur productions such as nine films by Claude Lelouch to whom she was married until 2009. She was awarded numerous prizes including the Best Actress Telegatto for The Cave of the Golden Rose, the Grolla d'oro for Edda, the Silver Hugo for Best Actress at the Chicago International Film Festival for Chance or Coincidence, the Diamanti al Cinema Award in Cannes or the 2009 European Golden Globe in Rome.

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Italian female dancers
Italian emigrants to France
Musicians from Rome
Italian television personalities
21st-century Italian actresses
Actresses from Rome
Italian stage actresses
Italian television actresses
20th-century Italian actresses
French television actresses
21st-century French actresses
French stage actresses