Chiara Mastroianni: the biography of the actress and her success in cinema

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

They say that nature often rests on the offspring of talented parents. Fortunately, however, there are exceptions to this rule. One of them is the beautiful and incredibly talented actress Chiara Mastroianni.

The story of Chiara's father and mother dating

The parents of this charming Italian-French actress are two legends of world cinema - Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve.

These actors met while working on the movie "It Only Happens to Others". By that time, both were already recognized stars. However, the joint work somehow did not stick, so the director of the project decided to help Catherine and Marcello get to know each other better. To do this, he locked them for a day in an empty trailer. The time spent together made the actors look at each other differently, and soon a romance began between them.

There were rumors that for the sake of the blond Frenchwoman, Mastroianni was even going to move to Paris, quit all business and family in Italy. However, Deneuve did not believe in the institution of marriage and rejected all the proposals of her lover. Even when she became pregnant, she did not change her mind, and soon Catherine and Marcellobroke up.

Chiara Mastroianni: biography of early years

On a hot May day in Paris in 1972, Deneuve gave birth to a daughter whom she planned to name Charlotte.

However, when he first saw the baby, dad was amazed at her fair skin and gave her the name Chiara, which translates from Italian as “light”. Among other things, Marcello insisted that his daughter bear the surname Mastroianni. Interestingly, the girl subsequently did not change her father's surname, although she married twice.

Despite the fact that the girl's parents separated and lived not just in different cities, but also in countries - they both took care of Chiara. She later said that although she saw her father and mother together only on the silver screen, she never felt that she lived in an inferior family - because she had loving, caring parents.

Relationship with mother

Catherine Deneuve has always been a rational thinker and in most cases could control her feelings. That is why the people around her had the impression that she was cool towards her children.

When the daughter was born, the actress already had a nine-year-old son, Christian. Because of the constant employment on the set, Katrin was often on the road, but she always tried to keep in touch with her daughter. So, wherever Deneuve was, she always found the opportunity to call home to wish Chiara good night.

Knowing the difficulties of the acting profession, the prima donna of French cinema did not want her baby to gomother's feet. She considered the profession of an actress not a reliable income. However, Deneuve, without knowing it herself, kindled her young daughter's passion for the world of cinema and theater. So Chiara Mastroianni from childhood helped her mother learn the roles, reading lines for other characters. In addition, she was often present on the set of many films in which her mother starred.

When the girl grew up, Catherine Deneuve convinced her to become an archaeologist. At the insistence of her mother, she entered the Sorbonne University. But secretly from her, Chiara participated in all kinds of castings, however, she could not get a serious role.

Relationship with father

Besides Chiara, the great Italian actor had many children, but the baby was his favorite. Marcello himself explained this by saying that he loved Catherine Deneuve very much, and when their paths parted, he transferred all his passion to his beautiful daughter.

Mother did not forbid the baby to go to her father in Rome, which Chiara often used. Marcello not only insanely pampered his beauty, but also arranged a holiday for each of her arrivals. Thanks to her father, the girl was introduced to Italian culture from childhood. Moreover, together with her dad, young Chiara Mastroianni (photo below) often starred in various photo shoots, and also attended famous film festivals, premieres and other important events, where the eminent Italian actor was invited.

Thanks to her father, Chiara felt like a real princess of Italian cinema.

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Having learned that her daughter decided to become an actress, despite all the exhortations of her mother, Deneuve resigned herself to her choice. Moreover, she helped her daughter get her first serious role in the film "My Favorite Season", in which she starred herself.

In turn, the father also helped his favorite - he made sure that Chiara Mastroianni played with him in the Italian film "High Fashion".

Thanks to her parents, the aspiring actress got a few more minor roles, but she dreamed of more.

First successes

To prove that she really is a talented actress, and not a mediocrity, who got the role thanks to her parents' connections, Chiara starred in a somewhat unusual image for herself in the film “Don't forget that you will die soon”, dedicated to the topic of AIDS patients.

Later, having played a few more difficult roles, the actress decided on her role - she began to deliberately refuse romantic heroines, choosing complex characters with a difficult fate. In addition, in order to once and for all get rid of the fame of the actress who received the role “by pull”, Chiara Mastroianni begins to deliberately refuse big-budget international projects. She chooses films from emerging talented directors.

Chiara's Achievements

Thanks to her difficult position, which many at first considered the youthful maximalism of a spoiled "princess", Chiara Mastroianni was able to achieve recognition in European cinema.

Films with her participation, meanwhile,were real masterpieces, but not all, of course. However, the ability to play absolutely any heroine helped Chiara to achieve recognition of the best directors in Italy and France.

Being more like her father than her mother, the girl did not become a hostage to her puppet appearance, as Catherine Deneuve once did. On the contrary, she has proven that she can transform into anyone. Among her heroines there are secular lionesses, prostitutes, drug addicts, journalists, victims of maniacs and simply unfortunate women. Chiara is not afraid to speak the unpleasant truth about life through her heroines.

Among the best films with the participation of the actress - "Don't forget that you will die soon", "Seducer's Diary", "For Sale", "Letter", "Slaughterhouse", "All songs are only about love", "Man in the bathroom”, “X Hour” and others.

Despite the fact that there are no serious cinematic awards in the actress's piggy bank yet, she was nominated for "Cesar" and the national award of France "Lumiere". In addition, Mademoiselle Mastroianni is often invited to be a member of the jury of various European film festivals and competitions.

Career in recent years

Despite the fact that the actress is not particularly known outside of Europe, she is popular in her homeland. Moreover, Chiara Mastroianni is one of those French actors, without which not a single serious project in the country can do. By the way, it is precisely because of this that they often play with their mother (“Beloved”, “Once Upon a Time in Versailles” and others).

One of their most successful collaborations in recentyears is the motion picture "3 Hearts". Chiara Mastroianni plays in it a romantic woman who finds out that her husband was once infatuated with her own sister. Catherine Deneuve got the role of an attentive and judicious mother of sisters in love with one man.

In 2016, with the participation of this actress, two films were released: “Saint-Amour: The Pleasures of Love” and “Good Luck Algiers”. Every year, Chiara is removed in 2-3 films. It is noteworthy that recently directors are increasingly seeing in her romantic heroines, whom she tried to avoid playing for many years. She will probably have to change roles now.

Chiara Mastroianni: personal life and children

When the girl was only eighteen, she got married for the first time. The famous sculptor Pierre Torreton became her chosen one. In this marriage, the actress had a son, Milo. Unfortunately, when the boy was 2 years old, his parents divorced.

On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Mademoiselle Mastroianni ventured for the second time to marry musician Benjamin Bioli. From him, Chiara gave birth to a daughter, Anna. Unfortunately, this marriage lasted only 5 years, after which the couple broke up.

Now the actress is free, although the press ascribes to her various novels with celebrities. About her personal life, only the fact that Chiara Mastroianni lives with her children in Paris is reliably known. Despite being busy, she spends all her free time with her kids, so she tries to select projects that are filmed close to home so as not to part with Milo and Anna for a long time.

Although someIn an interview, the actress says that she has resigned herself to the fate of a single mother and is quite happy, the public still hopes that in the future Chiara will meet a worthy man. In the meantime, the actress gets to play a happy lover only in the movies.