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Adriana Asti

ACTOR · BORN 1931 · DIED 2025

Adriana Asti

Born
30 April 1931
Died
31 July 2025

17 archived facts 3 topics 1 source Last reviewed Sep 2026

14 Interesting Facts About Adriana Asti

  1. #001

    Adriana Asti provided the dubbing voice for Anna Maria Alberghetti in the Italian post-synchronized version of Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957).

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    Adriana Asti was active as a voice dubbing artist in the late 1950s and the 1960s.

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  3. #003

    Adriana Asti holds great admiration for her The Best of Youth (2003) co-star Luigi Lo Cascio.

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    Adriana Asti is best known on screen for her roles in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Accattone, in which she played the prostitute Amore, and Bernardo Bertolucci's Prima della rivoluzione.

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    Adriana Asti made her stage debut in 1951 with the Bolzano company in Plautus's Miles Gloriosus. Her first personal success came with her role in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, directed by Luchino Visconti.

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    A prolific stage actress, Adriana Asti appeared in plays by Achard, Pirandello, Genet and Pinter. She also appeared in George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan (1984) and Samuel Beckett's Happy Days (1985, 2010).

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  7. #008

    Adriana Asti died in her sleep at the Villa Salaria clinic, where she had been hospitalised for several days. Her funeral was held at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Montesanto in Rome's Piazza del Popolo, also known as the Church of the Artists.

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  8. #010

    Adriana Asti made her stage debut in 1951 with the Bolzano anonymous company in Plautus's Miles Gloriosus, and her first success came in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, directed by Luchino Visconti, who would later cast her in Rocco and His Brothers and Ludwig.

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    Adriana Asti won the SIAE award in June 1990 and the Duse award in December 1993.

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  10. #012

    In July 2000 Adriana Asti acted and performed in French in Ferdinando, Annibale Ruccello's classic 1980s drama.

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    Adriana Asti is an Italian stage, film and voice actress.

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  12. #015

    Adriana Asti appeared in Dino Risi's short film Buio in sala, shot in 1948.

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  13. #016

    Adriana Asti should not be confused with the actress Adelaide Aste.

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  14. #017

    Although she looked younger for years, Adriana Asti was 45 when she appeared as "Ennia Thrasylla" in Caligula (1979).

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Sources & editorial notes

Reference databases

  • Wikipedia English Wikipedia article
  • IMDb Filmography and credits
  • TMDB The Movie Database profile

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  1. IMDb IMDbDatabase · accessed 18 Sep 2026

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