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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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Tiresome 24 July 2008
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Quiet, quality drama 28 February 2007
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superb.................. 3 June 2007
Greta Scacchi - filmography
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Hindenburg
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Heiner Lauterbach, Greta Scacchi, Lauren Lee Smith
Director: Philipp Kadelbach
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Made for TV drama recreating the May 1937 disaster in which the German airship the Hindenburg caught fire. The Hindenburg was the largest airship in the world and a symbol of growing German commercial and military power. Initially designed to use the non-flammable helium as a lifting gas, the US ..read more »
 
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Un altro mondo
(2010)
Starring: Silvio Muccino, Michael Rainey Jr., Isabella Ragonese
Director: Silvio Muccino
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Andrea (played by Silvio Muccino) is a 30 something, wealthy middle-class professional lay about, leading a less than meaningful life in Rome with his bulimic girlfriend Livia (Isabella Ragonese) financed by his icy cold detached mother. After receiving a letter from his father, with whom he hasn'..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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Miss Austen Regrets
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Phyllida Law, Olivia Williams
Director: Jeremy Lovering
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BBC drama based on Jane Austen's actual letters and diaries that aims to reveal the secrets of this most elusive of novelists. Jane (Olivia Williams) is nearing her forties and has never married. Her sharply observed romantic novels are widely admired. She is a favourite aunt to her niece Fanny ..read more »
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Shoot On Sight
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Taru Devani, Clemency Burton-Hill, Jamie Doyle
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, 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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Wimbledon - The Official Film 2005
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Greta Scacchi
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Official film of the 2005 Wimbledon tennis championship, the last to be presided over by Chief Executive Chris Gorringe. Greta Scacchi narrates.
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Beyond The Sea
(2004)
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Greta Scacchi, Kevin Spacey
Director: Kevin Spacey
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Musical drama based on the life and career of Bobby Darin. After a string of hits as a rock & roll singer, Bobby Darin (Kevin Spacey) takes a gamble, and with the help of manager Steve Blauner (John Goodman) he reinvents himself as a supper-club vocalist in the manner of Frank Sinatra. After ..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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Starring Pia Miranda, Anthony La Paglia, Greta Scacchi in this drama movie based on a true story directed by Kate Woods. Josephine, a teenage girl from Sydney lives with her mother, and has never met her father. While visiting her grandmother, Her father turns up at the door, mixed emotions she ..read more »
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The Manor
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Martin Dejdar, Laura Harris
Director: Kenneth Burns
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Murder mystery meets comedy of manners in this period drama starring Peter O'Toole and Greta Scaachi. When an investigator searches for the truth of two dead men in an old manor run by an overbearing woman, he soon finds out that he has become caught in a web of lies and deceit. Everyone is a ..read more »
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Cotton Mary
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: James Wilby, Greta Scacchi, Madhur Jaffrey
Director: Ismail Merchant
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India 1954 and Anglo-Indian relations are very tense. In the troubled Macintosh household things get worse when Lily (Greta Scacchi) gives birth to a very ill baby girl. Cotton Mary (Madhur Jaffrey), a local Anglo-Indian hospital aide who claims her father was a British Officer, decides to look ..read more »
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Tom's Midnight Garden
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: James Wilby, Greta Scacchi, Nigel Le Vaillant
Director: Willard Carroll
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Film adaptation of the classic children's tale in which a young boy finds access to a magical midnight garden. When his brother comes down with the measles, Tom (Anthony Way) is sent to stay with his Aunt Gwen (Greta Scacchi) and his Uncle Alan (James Wilby) in the dilapidated old manor they ..read more »
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The Red Violin
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Greta Scacchi, Jason Flemyng
Director: Francois Girard
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Busotti is a master craftsmen who becomes obsessed with completing the construction of a special violin when the child for which it was intended dies at birth. From these turbulent beginnings, the violin acquires a life of its own, as it is passed down the generations, stirring the passions of all ..read more »
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The Odyssey
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Vanessa Williams
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
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Armand Assante takes the role of Odysseus in this TV mini-series adaptation of Homer's epic poem. A play-thing in the hands of the gods, Odysseus finds himself on an endless voyage which brings him into contact with many mythical creatures, but which continually frustrates his attempts to return ..read more »
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The Serpent's Kiss
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Pete Postlethwaite, Carmen Chaplin
Director: Philippe Rousselot
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England, 1699. Dutch landscape artist Meneer Chrome (Ewan McGregor) is hired by Thomas Smithers (Pete Postlethwaite) to design a garden in honour of his wife Juliana (Greta Scacchi). Chrome sets to work and before long finds himself the object of Juliana's passions, while himself taking a shine to ..read more »
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Emma
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Toni Collette, Alan Cumming
Director: Douglas McGrath
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Gwyneth Paltrow stars as the matchmaker Emma Woodhouse in this adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel. Although her heart is in the right place and she only wants the best for people, Emma's meddling sometimes can have unforseen effects, and when she turns her attentions to creating a love match ..read more »
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Emma - Blu-ray
(1996)
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Toni Collette, Alan Cumming
Director: Douglas McGrath
Certificate:
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Gwyneth Paltrow stars as the matchmaker Emma Woodhouse in this adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel. Although her heart is in the right place and she only wants the best for people, Emma's meddling sometimes can have unforseen effects, and when she turns her attentions to creating a love match ..read more »
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Jefferson In Paris
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Nanc, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Greta Scacchi
Director: James Ivory
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Merchant Ivory's acccount of the time American stateman Thomas Jefferson spent in Paris. Sent to France as the ambassador for his own still-youthful country, Jefferson (Nick Nolte) soon finds himself torn between his desires for worldly socialite Maria Cosway (Greta Scacchi) and household slave ..read more »
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The Browning Version
(1994)
Starring: Oliver Milburn, Maryam d'Abo, Matthew Modine
Director: John K. Watson, Mike Figgis
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The second film adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play, updated to the Nineties by Mike Figgis. Andrew Crocker-Harris (Albert Finney) is the much-hated classics teacher at the Abbey School, who is being forced into retirement by headmaster Dr Frobisher (Michael Gambon). Crocker-Harris' wife, Laura (..read more »
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Turtle Beach
(1992)
Starring: Greta Scacchi, Joan Chen, Jack Thompson
Director: Stephen Wallace
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In this grim docu-drama an Australian photojournalist leaves her children to cover the story of Vietnamese boat people in a Malaysian refugee camp. There she becomes friends with a Vietnamese streetwalker who has married a diplomat and together they try to do something about shocking conditions ..read more »
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The Player
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio, Steve J, Rene Auberjonois
Director: Robert Altman
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Movie executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) is receiving death threats from an anonymous screenwriter. Deducing that the letters are coming from rejected hopeful David Kahane (Vincent D'Onofrio), Griffin sets up an 'accidental' meeting with the writer and, during an argument, kills him. While the ..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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Fires Within
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio, Greta Scacchi, Vincent D'Onofrio
Director: Gillian Armstrong
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Nestor (Jimmy Smits), a political prisoner in Cuba, is eventually released after eight years of incarceration and travels to Miami to be re-united with his wife and daughter. His wife (Greta Scacchi), however, has fallen in love with another man and Nestor must choose between his politics and the ..read more »
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from 66 members
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Presumed Innocent
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Harrison Ford, David Wohl, Paul Winfield
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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Harrison Ford plays Rusty Sabich, an attorney who finds himself charged with murder in this thriller, directed by Alan J. Pakula ('All the President's Men'). The victim (Greta Scacchi) was a colleague of his, with whom he had a brief but intense affair, and the attorney finds himself needing a ..read more »
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from 2,676 members
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White Mischief
on DVD
(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: Denholm Elliott, Bill Peterson, Ian Bannen
Director: David Drury
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This fast-paced thriller examines the amorality of a nation's secret services and the responsibility of journalistic investigations in an era of nuclear tensions and bureaucratic deceit. The film examines an unspooling series of events occurring after a near crash of a nuclear bomber at an American ..read more »
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The Ebony Tower
(1984)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Roger Rees, Greta Scacchi
Director: Robert Knights
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Featuring a formidable central performance by Laurence Oliver, one of Britain s most revered actors, this BAFTA-nominated television play was adapted by John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey) from the novel by John Fowles; a distinguished supporting cast includes Greta Scacchi and Roger Rees. Henry ..read more »
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Heat And Dust
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Susan Fleetwood, Greta Scacchi, Nickolas Grace
Director: James Ivory
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Two women, related but separated by one generation and 60 years, have parallel experiences in the evocative mystical environment of India in this period drama from producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory. Although a little slow-paced for some, and slightly confusing because the stories of ..read more »
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...f examination of the Hollywood system. As pleasing as she is to the eye I found Greta Scacchi's performance unconvincing & Tim Robbins was little better. The constant merry ...
