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Greta Scacchi
Born Greta Gracco in Milan, Italy 1960, Greta Scacchi's mother was an English dancer and antiques dealer and her father an Italian painter. She grew up in Milan, later moving to London. In 1975 she moved to Australia, returning to England in 1977 aged 18 to pursue a career in acting at Bristol Old-Vic-Theatre School alongside Miranda Richardson and Amanda Redman. She played small parts as a stage actress and at 5’9” tall, worked as a fashion model. Young Director/producer Dominik Graf discovered her which promptly led to her film debut in Das Zweite Gesicht [The Second Face] (1982).
A catalogue of diverse film roles ensued including notably; Merchant Ivory masterpiece Heat And Dust (1983); The Ebony Tower (1984); colonial era classic White Mischief (1987)with Charles Dance; The Player (1992); Shattered (1991)with Tom Berenger; Country Life (1994); Emma (1996); Rasputin (1996) for TV, with Alan Rickman; Ladies Room (1999); Australian cultural drama Looking For Alibrandi (2000)with Anthony La Paglia; Beyond The Sea (2004); Broken Trail (2006) and Brideshead Revisited (2008). Scacchi, (pronounced ‘Skacky’) has starred in over Fifty three productions for film and television, many of her more recent roles being TV and Radio appearances. She won an Emmy Award for her work as Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna of Russia in the 1996 television film Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny for which she was also nominated for a Golden Globe. More recently, she received another Emmy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in Broken Trail (2007).
In 2004 Scacchi was created Dame of the Order of the British Empire for services to art. She is currently a British National, has two children and resides in Sussex (UK).
Did you know that…
- Scacchi turned down the Sharon Stone role played by Catherine Trammell in Basic Instinct (1992).
-She speaks Italian and French languages fluently and learned German for her debut in Das Zweite Gesicht(1982).
-She has played many nude scenes in various roles including full-frontal nudity.
Filmography:
Das Zweite Gesicht (1982)
Dead on Time (1982)
Heat And Dust (1983)
The Ebony Tower (1984)
Camille (1984) TV
Waterfront (1984) TV
Defence Of The Realm (1985)
Burke & Wills (1985)
Dr. Fis Cher of Geneva (1985) TV
The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)
Carve You In Marble (August 1986)
White Mischief (1987)
Good Morning, Babylon (1987)
A Man in Love (Un homme amoureux) (1987)
The Moon Woman (1988)
Three Sisters (1988)
Presumed Innocent (1990)
Shattered (1991)
Fires Within (1991)
Salt on Our Skin (1992)
The Player (1992)
Turtle Beach (1992)
Country Life (1994)
The Browning Version (1994)
Jefferson In Paris (1995)
Emma (1996)
Cosi (1996)
Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996) TV
The Odyssey (1997) TV
The Serpent's Kiss (1997)
Love and Rage (1998)
The Red Violin (1998)
Macbeth (1998) TV
Ladies Room (1999)
Cotton Mary (1999)
Tom's Midnight Garden (1999)
The Manor (1999)
Christmas Glory 2000 (2000) TV
One of the Hollywood Ten (2000)
Looking For Alibrandi (2000)
The Farm (2001) TV
Festival in Cannes (2001)
Jeffrey Ar Cher: The Truth (2002) TV
Daniel Deronda (2002) TV
The Buzz of the Flies (2003)
Baltic Storm (2003)
Beyond The Sea (2004)
Under False Name (2004)
Flightplan (2005)
Broken Trail (2006)
Marple: By the Pricking of my Thumbs (2006)
The Book of Revelation (2006)
Brideshead Revisited (2008)
Shoot On Sight (2008)
The Trojan Horse (2008) TV
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Miss Austen Regrets
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Jack Huston, Pip Torrens, Olivia Williams
Director: Jeremy Lovering
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A passionate and emotional story of Jane Austen’s romantic life, inspired by the great writer’s own novels, letters and diaries. As Jane Austen approaches her forties, her success as a writer is assured and her witty and sharply observed romantic novels are widely admired. To her niece, Fanny ..read more »
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Brideshead Revisited
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Matthew Goode
Director: Julian Jarrold
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The latest adaptation of the novel by Evelyn Waugh centres around the memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder who is stationed at Brideshead Castle during WWII and remembers his involvement with the owners of the Brideshead estate: the aristocratic yet Catholic Flyte family and in particular brother and ..read more »
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Shoot On Sight
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Clemency Burton-Hill, Brian Cox, Taru Devani
Director: Jag Mundhra
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"Shoot On Sight" is a gripping thriller and riveting family drama that unfolds the turmoil in the life of Tariq Ali, a Muslim police officer at Scotland Yard. Commander Ali, born in Pakistan, married to an English woman, and with two kids, is tasked to investigate the police shooting of a ..read more »
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Broken Trail
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church, Greta Scacchi
Director: Walter Hill
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Set in 1898, Print Ritter (Robert Duvall) and his estranged nephew Tom Harte (Thomas Haden Church) become the reluctant guardians of five abused and abandoned Chinese girls (introducing Caroline Chan, Olivia Cheng, Jadyn Wong, Valerie Tian, and Gwendoline Yeo). Ritter and Harte's attempts to care ..read more »
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The Book of Revelation
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Tom Long, Greta Scacchi, Colin Friels
Director: Ana Kokkinos
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Book Of Revelation is a story of sex, betrayal, and obsession. Daniel (Tom Long) is a successful dancer and, along with his partner and lover Bridget (Anna Torv), the toast of the dance world. But Tom is arrogant, and his ego is often his biggest stumbling block to greatness, or so claims his long ..read more »
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Looking For Alibrandi
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Pia Miranda, Greta Scacchi, Anthony La Paglia
Director: Kate Woods
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A teenage Australian girl deals with the traumas of everyday life. These include her difficult relationship with her single mother, the unexpected return of her long-lost father, the disapproving nuns at her strict Catholic school, the acceptance of her schoolmates,and romantic dilemmas over two ..read more »
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Tom's Midnight Garden
(1999)
Starring: Nigel Le Vaillant, Greta Scacchi, James Wilby
Director: Willard Carroll
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While staying with his aunt and uncle, young Tom Long (Anthony Way) discovers he can enter a magical garden when the grandfather clock strikes midnight. Tom is joined by a girl named Hatty (Florence Hoath) on his adventures in the garden. The film also stars Greta Scacchi, James Wilby, and Joan ..read more »
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The Manor
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Greta Scacchi, Gabrielle Anwar, Peter O'Toole
Director: Kenneth Burns
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A wickedly funny and intelligent comedy of manners, where lies and deception rule.
An investigator (Martin Dejdar) searches for the truth of two dead men in an old manor run by an overbearing woman (Greta Scachhi) and finds out quickly that he's caught in a web of lies and deceit. Everyone is a ..read more »
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The Red Violin
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Jason Flemyng, Samuel L. Jackson, Greta Scacchi
Director: Francois Girard
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Following the unusual journey of an original and unique violin (painted red with the blood of his beloved and deceased wife), as it survives three centuries to a present-day auction in Montreal. The violin weaves a Svengali over all those who play it and becomes the subject of passion, deception ..read more »
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The Serpent's Kiss
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Pete Postlethwaite, Richard E. Grant
Director: Philippe Rousselot
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The young Dutch artist Meneer Chrome (Ewan McGregor) has been summoned to a secluded country estate where the wealthy Thomas Smithers (Pete Postlethwaite) has commissioned an extravagant garden to be created. The instructions for its creation come from the evil Fitzmaurice (Richard E. Grant), whose ..read more »
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The Odyssey
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Greta Scacchi, Armand Assante, Eric Roberts
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
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This lavish small-screen adaptation of Homer's ancient epic--complete with exotic Maltese and Turkish locations, state-of-the-art special effects, and many bronzed muscles gleaming with sweat--chronicles the voyage home of a Trojan hero, Odysseus the King Of Ithaca, after the ten year Trojan war.
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Emma
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Toni Collette, Alan Cumming
Director: Douglas McGrath
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Douglas McGrath's film is an elegant and entertaining adaptation of Jane Austen's 1816 novel about Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow), a well-to-do young woman whose kindhearted attempts at matchmaking mask her own lack of romantic attachment. She takes it upon herself to find the perfect man for her friend ..read more »
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Jefferson In Paris
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Thandie Newton
Director: James Ivory
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Statesman and 'Declaration Of Independence' author Thomas Jefferson is depicted during the time he served as America's Ambassador to France. The story follows his love life and dramatises a romance (widely believed to be exaggerated) between Jefferson and one of his youthful slaves.
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The Browning Version
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Albert Finney, Matthew Modine, Greta Scacchi
Director: Mike Figgis, John K. Watson
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Andrew Crocker-Harris (Albert Finney), a teacher of Greek and Latin at a private school, is dubbed the 'Hitler of the Lower Sixth' by his students. His rigidity and cruelty are the sad remnants of an extinguished passion for classical literature. But as he is poised to leave the school--forced into ..read more »
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The Player
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg
Director: Robert Altman
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Robert Altman's adaptation of Michael Tolkin's novel gives the notorious director a chance to address perhaps his greatest nemesis: the Hollywood studio system. Disguised as a thriller, the film assembles virtually every famous actor in Hollywood to create an exhilarating blend of real life and ..read more »
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Shattered
(1991)
Starring: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
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A wealthy and powerful architect is left with a completely disfigured face and amnesia after his car plummets off a cliff. As he struggles to reconstruct his life, he experiences strange flashbacks of nightmarish and erotic memories that don't match the story he has been told.
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Presumed Innocent
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Greta Scacchi, Raul Julia
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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PRESUMED INNOCENT, like most of director Alan J. Pakula's films is also a complex character study. Based on a best-selling novel by Scott Turrow, the courtroom murder mystery tells the story of prosecutor Rusty Sabich (Harrison Ford) who is accused of murdering his former mistress, the beautiful ..read more »
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White Mischief
(1987)
Starring: Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Joss Ackland
Director: Michael Radford
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If there was a paradise untouched by the war in the winter of 1940, it was Kenya's Happy Valley. There the tall, blond and impeccably groomed Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Errol, enjoyed a decadent life of pleasure with his fellow aristocrats.
Their's was a society in which adultery was routine and ..read more »
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Defence Of The Realm
(1985)
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott
Director: David Drury
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DEFENCE OF THE REALM is a gripping thriller that stars Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, and Denholm Elliott. Nick Mullen (Byrne), a young reporter for a national daily newspaper, is beginning to drift into a cynical and bored routine when he suddenly stumbles across a political cover-up. With the aid ..read more »
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Heat And Dust
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Julie Christie, Shashi Kapoor, Christopher Cazenove
Director: James Ivory
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Director James Ivory's HEAT AND DUST tells two parallel stories set in India, one in the present and the other in the days of British rule. In 1920s India, a young English bride, Olivia (Greta Scacchi), finds herself in a passionate, forbidden affair with the local Nawab (Shashi Kapoor). In the ..read more »
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Shoot on Sight
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(2007)
Starring: Clemency Burton-Hill, Brian Cox, Taru Devani
Director: Jag Mundhra
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Run time: 106 minutes
Starring Bollywood film star Naseeruddin Shah, Brian Cox and Greta Scaachi. A fictional political thriller based on the London terrorist bombings and the subsequent police order to 'Shoot on Sight', the film unfolds the turmoil of the life of Tariq Ali, a Muslim police officer at Scotland Yard. ..read more »
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The Browning Version
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(1994)
Starring: Albert Finney, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine
Director: Mike Figgis, John K. Watson
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Run time: 97 minutes
"One of Albert Finney's greatest performances... Sweeping, lavish and beautiful." --Jeffrey Lyons, SNEAK PREVIEWS Dead Poet's Society. Stand And Deliver. Film fans fondly recall them as tales of a teacher who inspires his students. The Browning Version is the memorable story of a student who ..read more »
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The Player
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(1992)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward
Director: Robert Altman
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Run time: 119 minutes
Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a disgruntled writer because he has ..read more »
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Quite ordinary 29 June 2007
...ss, particularly from Denholm Elliott and Gabriel Byrne, although the beautiful Greta Scacchi was a little below par. Also the copy of the film seemed rather dark, perhaps ...
Tiresome 24 July 2008
Quiet, quality drama 28 February 2007
