Veronica Lazăr

Veronica Lazăr

Veronica Lazăr (6 October 1938 – 8 June 2014) was a Romanian-born Italian actress. Lazăr was born in Bucharest in 1938. She graduated from the Caragiale Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography (where she also obtained a degree in psychology, which she practiced until 1994, dealing mainly in couples therapy) and subsequently played roles in Romanian theatre [notably a run of Right You Are (if you think so) in 1963-64]. She fled her home country to escape communism and eventually settled in Italy in 1965. She managed to learn the Italian language in only a few weeks and had planned to move on to the United States or Israel, but became entranced with Rome. There, she met and married Italian actor Adolfo Celi with whom she had two children, director Leonardo Celi and actress Alessandra Celi. She made her screen debut as Marlon Brando's deceased wife in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (1972), and also appeared in some of the director's subsequent films, La Luna (1979), The Sheltering Sky (1990), and Besieged (1998). Lazăr is probably best known internationally for her role as the demonic Mater Tenebrarum in Dario Argento's Inferno (1980), as well as the ill-fated Martha in Lucio Fulci's The Beyond (1981). She later appeared in Argento's The Stendhal Syndrome (1996) in a role that was removed from the North American version (though she is still billed in the end credits). Her other films included Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman (1982), My Sister and I (1987), Towards Evening (1990), The Prince's Manuscript (2000) and Ginostra (2002). She had an extensive career in (mostly) Italian television, where she was often the lead or one of the lead characters. Lazăr headlined the 1978 adaptation of The Elective Affinities, Giacinta (1980) and was a big part of the 1989 BBC miniseries Summer's Lease. Her last role was that of the main character Lorenzo's loving grandmother in Bertolucci's Me and You (2012). Veronica Lazăr was a renowned woman of culture and a cultural ambassador between Italian and Romanian cinema (the latter, a position she began in 1989). She was a linguistic interpreter and was seen as a symbolic figure with a protective aura by her countrymen in both Italy and Romania. She was also president of the Itaro Art Foundation and was instrumental in its 2007 retrospective on Romanian cinema held in Rome and Pisa. She was heavily involved with the acting students at Teatro Valle and often would cook meals for them at her home and bring them to the theatre. The students there nicknamed her "Nonna Veronica." Lazăr also coordinated the construction of a hospital in Mali over the course of a year, on orders of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. When she returned to Italy, she brought with her African fabrics, statues, and carpets, many of which were still in her home when she died. Lazăr loved to play cards, share with her friends, and had a special affinity for the sea. At her funeral, she wanted her 18-year-old niece, a career musician already, to play the theme from Schindler's List throughout the Jewish cemetery in Prima Porta where she was laid to rest. Description above from the Wikipedia article Veronica Lazăr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title : Veronica Lazăr
  • Popularity : 2.204
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1938-10-06
  • Place of Birth : Bucharest, Romania
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Veronica Lazăr Movies

  • 1972
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    Last Tango in Paris

    Last Tango in Paris

    7 1972 HD

    A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

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  • 1993
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    The Blonde

    The Blonde

    1 1993 HD

    Coming back from work by night, shy watchmaker Tommaso runs over a girl with his car, luckily without serious consequences. Next day he finds her...

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  • 1979
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    Luna

    Luna

    6.4 1979 HD

    While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his...

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  • 1990
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    The Sheltering Sky

    The Sheltering Sky

    6.517 1990 HD

    An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

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  • 2008
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    Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

    Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

    6 2008 HD

    This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom...

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  • 1980
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    Inferno

    Inferno

    6.7 1980 HD

    A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.

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  • 1982
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    Identification of a Woman

    Identification of a Woman

    5.9 1982 HD

    The movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship with a young woman who...

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  • 2012
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    Twins

    Twins

    1 2012 HD

    Angela Wyler asks police chief Valerio Strada to find Christine, her twin who she hasn't heard in two years and who had a stormy relationship with...

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  • 2006
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    Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

    Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

    7 2006 HD

    italian documentary

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  • 2012
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    Me & You

    Me & You

    6.2 2012 HD

    An introverted teenager tells his parents he is going on a ski trip, but instead spends his time alone in his mom's basement. But things didn't go as...

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  • 2004
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    Renzo e Lucia

    Renzo e Lucia

    1 2004 HD

    Loose adaptation of Italy's national epic, Alessandro Manzoni's “The Betrothed”. In war-torn 17th century Italy, shady feudal lord Don...

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  • 1996
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    The Stendhal Syndrome

    The Stendhal Syndrome

    5.549 1996 HD

    A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the...

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  • 1990
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    Towards Evening

    Towards Evening

    7.1 1990 HD

    Italy, 1977. Professor Bruschi is a retired widower who lives according to a strict routine he set for himself. An ardent old-style communist, he has...

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  • 1987
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    My Sister and I

    My Sister and I

    6.4 1987 HD

    Carlo is a responsible sibling who deals with his black-sheep sister Silvia in this situation comedy. When Silvia returns after many years to attend...

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  • 1995
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    Beyond the Clouds

    Beyond the Clouds

    6.3 1995 HD

    Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives, connecting through a single narrative thread.

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  • 1981
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    The Wings of the Dove

    The Wings of the Dove

    5.2 1981 HD

    A 20th-century prostitute (Dominique Sanda) arranges for her lover (Michele Placido) to wed a wealthy, dying millionairess (Isabelle Huppert) in...

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  • 2014
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    Leopardi

    Leopardi

    6.8 2014 HD

    In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

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  • 1978
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    Elective Affinities

    Elective Affinities

    1 1978 HD

    Adaptation of Goethe's novel.

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  • 1998
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    Besieged

    Besieged

    6.7 1998 HD

    While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her...

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  • 1981
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    The Beyond

    The Beyond

    6.9 1981 HD

    A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over...

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  • 2003
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    Ginostra

    Ginostra

    4.7 2003 HD

    An FBI Agent from America and his bride and young child travel to the Sicilian island of Ginostra to solve the murder of a key witness.

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  • 2000
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    The Prince's Manuscript

    The Prince's Manuscript

    8.2 2000 HD

    The film is a biography of Giuseppe Tomasi (Bouquet), the prince of Lampedusa, who is the author of Il gattopardo, one of the most influential...

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  • 1990
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    The Dark Sun

    The Dark Sun

    4 1990 HD

    After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to...

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  • 1989
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    Summer's Lease

    Summer's Lease

    7.5 1989 HD

    Molly Pargeter is a forty-something wife and mother of three girls, who leads a stable but dull life in 1980s West London. She feels overweight and...

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  • 2012
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    6 passi nel giallo

    6 passi nel giallo

    5.5 2012 HD

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