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Moira Orfei is a Actor Italienne born on 21 december 1931 at Codroipo (Italie)

Moira Orfei

Moira Orfei
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Birth name Miranda Orfei
Nationality Italie
Birth 21 december 1931 at Codroipo (Italie)
Death 15 november 2015 (at 83 years)

Moira Orfei, (aka Miranda Orfei), (b. 21 December 1931 Codroipo) a popular Italian actress and television personality. Moira is considered the queen of the Italian circus.

Biography

Raised in a family who owned the circus company Circus Orfei, Moira became the symbol of circus in Italy and attained international fame. The Circus Moira Orfei itself was founded in 1960. Moira has been photographed in various scenes as a rider, trapeze artist, acrobat, dominatrice of elephants and trainer of doves.

Moira's excessively garish image mirrors her eccentric and exuberant personality. It was Dino De Laurentiis who suggested that she change her name from Miranda to Moira. From then on, Moira's face became an effigy of unchanging characteristics: heavy make-up with eyes coated with eyeliner, bright lipstick, an accentuated mole above the lip, hair tied in a turban. Promotional billboards were carpeted with this picture in every city that the circus stopped. As a result, Moira has become one of the most recognized faces in Italy.

Almost by chance, Moira also became a film actress, acting in over forty films, from comedies to Sword and sandal films (among which many Italian crime films). It has been said that if Moira had studied drama she could have been good as Sophia Loren.




Moira's parents were Riccardo Orfei and Violetta Arata. She married Walter Nones and they had two children Stefano Orfei and Lara Orfei.

On 4 August 2006 Moira Orfei had an Ischemic stroke during a show in Gioiosa Ionica. The artist is still under medical care.

Best films

Scent of a Woman (1974)
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Filmography of Moira Orfei (29 films)

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Actress

Christmas Vacation '90, 1h41
Directed by Enrico Oldoini
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Massimo Boldi, Christian De Sica, Ezio Greggio, Diego Abatantuono, Corinne Cléry, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Roles Gloria
Rating47% 2.3998252.3998252.3998252.3998252.399825
In residence in the mountains of St Moritz, intertwine the stories of five characters. Nick, a poor waiter, wins a bet on a horse race, but he loses his voice. So he goes on vacation meets a rich lady. Bindo and Toni, old friends, meet them after an argument, and one falls for the wife of the other. Arturo and Beppe, also friends, participating in races with runners, stay in a chalet near the residence of St Moritz. Arturo also falls in love with a woman, but she is the wife of his best friend...
The Demonic Womanizer Costante Nicosia, or: Dracula in Brianza
Directed by Lucio Fulci
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Vampires in film, Comedy horror films
Actors Lando Buzzanca, John Steiner, Moira Orfei, Christa Linder, Sylva Koscina, Ciccio Ingrassia
Roles Bestia Assatanata
Rating58% 2.909372.909372.909372.909372.90937
Costante Nicosia (Lando Buzzanca), a businessman of Sicilian origins, is a boorish, irascible, man having married for wealth. He is the new boss of a recently inherited toothpaste factory and the owner of a local Rome basketball team. Nicosia is abusive to his employees and to his hunchbacked side-kick Peppino (Antonio Aliocca). Nicosia is also extremely superstitious. Peppino is less of a friend than a good luck charm as far as the insnsstitive Nicosia is concerned. He believes that it brings good luck to rub a hunchback's hump. In one day, a black cat crosses Nicosia's path, and he breaks a mirror in his apartment. Superstition demands that he persuade a virgin to urinate over the broken shards of glass in order to halt the tide of bad luck. Abusively, he passes a decrepit old spinster who lives next door to him mistakenly assuming that she has never done the "deed". Nicosia's relationship with his wife Mariu (Sylva Koscina) is scarcely more convivial for he is also antagonstic towards her.
Scent of a Woman, 1h43
Directed by Dino Risi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about disabilities, La cécité, Erotic thriller films
Actors Vittorio Gassman, Agostina Belli, Alessandro Momo, Moira Orfei, Alvaro Vitali, Vernon Dobtcheff
Roles Mirka
Rating74% 3.745313.745313.745313.745313.74531
A blind Italian captain, accompanied by his aide Ciccio, who has been assigned to him by the army, is on his way from Turin to Naples to meet with an old comrade who was also disfigured in the same military incident. Unknown to his aide, the Captain means to fulfill a suicide pact there. While they journey, the Captain asks Ciccio to help him spot beautiful women. Unsatisfied with the boy's descriptions, he uses his nose instead, claiming that he can smell a beautiful woman. During their journey, he carries with him a picture of his beloved Sara, whom he could not bear to have see him disfigured and helpless. The suicide pact is eventually thwarted once Sara enters the picture, and the boy Ciccio does some much-needed growing up.
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses, 1h45
Directed by Dino Risi
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Pamela Tiffin, Moira Orfei, Gigi Ballista, Pietro Tordi
Roles Adelaide
Rating69% 3.4801853.4801853.4801853.4801853.480185
Marino and Marisa are two villagers of a small mountain village in the Marche region, where the mentality of the people is still very backward. The two love each other very much and want to marry, but because of one day Marisa Marino is forced to leave for Rome. The experience of the trip and the sudden and drastic change in life is too big for Marisa. In fact she never recovers and prefers to forget Marino, which instead follows her and tries desperately to the point of ending up on the pavement. Meanwhile, Marisa is married to a wealthy gentleman and very appssionato painting and music: Umberto. Uncio The problem is that this man has remained silent for the shock of an accident. Marisa Marino chasing the same and all three protagonists find themselves in the house of Umberto.
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians, 1h55
Directed by Pietro Germi
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Alberto Lionello, Beba Loncar, Olga Villi, Franco Fabrizi
Roles Giorgetta Casellato
Rating75% 3.7846353.7846353.7846353.7846353.784635
Dans une petite ville non nommée de Vénétie, un groupe d'amis qui constitue la bourgeoisie locale navigue entre sauteries et coucheries.
Casanova 70, 1h47
Directed by Mario Monicelli, Renzo Marignano
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Marisa Mell, Michèle Mercier, Guido Alberti
Roles Santina
Rating63% 3.1977853.1977853.1977853.1977853.197785
NATO Officer Andrea Rossi-Colombotti (Mastroianni) is a ladies man with an unusual libido: he can only seduce women in situations where his life is in danger. The film begins with him breaking into a Corsican girlfriends house; the girl, armed and voluptuous, believes Andrea a criminal and nearly shoots him before being seduced, but she later ends their relationship in the light of such an incident. Later, while spending an afternoon with an Asian air stewardess, he tries to achieve arousal by making up a situation about a dying relative, but the stewardess learns the sham and the liaison ends disastrously.
Fire Over Rome
Directed by Guido Malatesta
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Lang Jeffries, Cristina Gaioni, Moira Orfei, Mario Feliciani, Evi Maltagliati, Franco Fantasia
Roles Poppaea
Rating49% 2.486752.486752.486752.486752.48675
Néron charge Menecrate chef des prétoriens de pourchasser et persécuter les chrétiens. Il est assisté par Marco Valerio , un jeune consul. En fouillant les catacombes, Marco constate que, parmi les chrétiens se trouve Giulia, dont il est amoureux. Ne pouvant se résoudre à l'arrêter, il l'aide à s'échapper. Peu de temps après, il est arrêté et condamné à combattre dans l’arène. Livia, la mère de Marco, plaide sa grâce auprès de l'empereur…
How We Got Into Trouble with the Army, 1h30
Directed by Lucio Fulci
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Buddy films
Actors Remo Germani, Umberto D'Orsi, Luigi Pavese, Nino Terzo, Lino Banfi, Moira Orfei
Rating52% 2.6393952.6393952.6393952.6393952.639395
Nick Moroni (Remo Germani), a young singer called up, learns that his wife Catherine (Alicia Brandet) from which separate lives, is about to leave for America bringing with her the son born of their union; so he abducts the baby and takes him to the police station, charging the soldier Piscitello (Franco Franchi) to keep him well hidden. The terrible sergeant Camilloni (Ciccio Ingrassia), discovers the child and is led to believe that he left him a woman with whom he had an affair in the past and, convinced that he is the father of the creature, asks Piscitello to keep he hidden from the eyes of all. Piscitello naturally takes advantage of the situation to blackmail the sergeant, demanding concessions to no end and subjecting him to harassment of any kind .
Revolt of the Praetorians, 1h40
Directed by Alfonso Brescia
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Richard Harrison, Piero Lulli, Giuliano Gemma, Moira Orfei, Renato Montalbano, Mirko Ellis
Roles Artamne
Rating55% 2.782662.782662.782662.782662.78266
In ancient Rome, at about 96 AD, Emperor Domitian has become a highly paranoid and tyrannical despot who keeps the people oppressed in constant fear of a revolt. He has only a few retainers left whom he perceives as loyal: his lover Artamne, a scheming Egyptian priestess of Isis; his diminutive jester, Elpidion; his gladiator bodyguards under the command of Soteros; his palace guards; and his Imperial Praetorian Guard under the command of their centurion, Valerius Rufus. Anyone who dares speak up against the Emperor - and may it be only a minor complaint - or is suspected of treason is either imprisoned or summarily executed.
Samson and His Mighty Challenge, 1h40
Directed by Giorgio Capitani
Origin Italie
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Peplum
Themes Films based on mythology, Dans la Grèce mythologique, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Howard Ross, Alan Steel, Moira Orfei, Hélène Chanel, Lia Zoppelli, Livio Lorenzon
Roles Dalila
Rating47% 2.37412.37412.37412.37412.3741
Hercules argues with his father Zeus who thinks that his son should follow the road of virtue. Instead, Hercules follows the road of pleasure which leads him to the city of Lydia. There he falls in love with the princess Omphale and he asks from her mother Nemea permission to marry her. Although Nemea is thrilled with the idea of having a demigod as a husband for her daughter, Omphale doesn't even want to hear about it because she is in love with Inor the barbarian prince. So the couple crafts a cunning plan.
Hercules vs. the Giant Warriors, 1h16
Directed by Alberto De Martino
Origin Italie
Genres Adventure, Peplum
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films based on mythology, Dans la Grèce mythologique, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Marilù Tolo, Moira Orfei, Enzo Fiermonte, Pierre Cressoy, Piero Lulli, Constantine Dan Vafiadis
Roles Pasiphae, the witch
Rating45% 2.263062.263062.263062.263062.26306
Hercules is called upon to fight seven golden giants summoned by the Dagger of Jae, sister of Juno (Hera), who dislikes Hercules "for certain family reasons." Hercules also fights to protect his princess love, but matters are complicated by her evil relative Milo, who has murdered her father the king but has tricked her into thinking it was someone else because she trusts him too much. Milo tricks Hercules into killing his friend, for which he is punished by his father Jove (Jupiter/Zeus) who takes away his enormous strength, because he has misused it. Milo is conspiring with his sorceress mother to take the throne for himself.
The Terror of the Steppes, 1h37
Directed by Tanio Boccia
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Moira Orfei, Ombretta Colli, Giulio Donnini, Ugo Sasso, Furio Meniconi, Attilio Dottesio
Roles Malina
Rating48% 2.446882.446882.446882.446882.44688
Promise par son père au cruel Tartare Alta-Khan, la princesse Samira est enlevée contre la remise d'une rançon par le prince Shankar. Le roi Yessen Khan ne tarde pas à découvrir la duplicité du Tartare et à récompenser le prince et son courage en lui offrant sa fille en mariage…