In the acting environment there are many diverse people - such as Violante Placido, for example. Starting her career with episodic movie roles, she moved from Italy to Hollywood, which in itself is an achievement. And then Violante tried herself as a rock performer, and she did it too.
Moreover, both the words and the music actress writes herself. And in parallel, continues to act in films.
Biography
The future actress was born in 1976 in the Placido family estate in southern Italy. Her parents are actors Michele Placido and Simonetta Stefanelli. Her father is especially famous in Russia. It was he who created the image of Captain Corrado Cattani in the famous TV series "Octopus" (1984), which the creators were forced to extend for four seasons - he was so popular.
By the way, this series has now been digitized and again shown on Russian television.
Since the Violante family was acting, she had no choice but to absorb this atmosphere of creativity that reigned in their family. She knew that music, singing, dancing were important for the actress, and so she was happy to do vocals and stage movement.
By the time Violante was born, her father became a director and shot a lot. And he had no shortage of actor-children, because he could always take his daughter with him - after all, she coped with any role perfectly. True, these were only episodes, but the very setting of the set was important for the beginning actress.
Movie career
She also played her first role under the direction of Michele, although Claudio Camarca was the director of the film “Four Good Guys, ” where Violante made her debut. The debut was recognized by the father as successful, and the young actress went on a free swim: she began to take part in castings for different roles.
She managed to star in several supporting roles, and finally she was taken on the role of Maddalena in the film "Soulmate". This work was remembered by Violante for acquaintance with interesting Italian actors who helped her hone her acting skills.
At the thirty-year frontier, Placido failed in the film "You Are Everywhere" due to an unsuccessful erotic scene. Critics smashed the picture to smithereens despite the fact that the director of the tape was Michele Placido.
Since 2005, Violante begins acting in several films at once. One of the successful paintings of this period is the biographical drama "Karol. The Man Who Became the Pope." The film tells about the life of John Paul II from the earliest years until the moment when he was elected Pope. This project is multinational: Italian, Polish, Canadian, French actors starred in it. Violante played here a student of the Ethics Department, who was in love with a student of Adam. And he watched the future Pope - wanted to convict him of some kind of sin. The story is quite instructive and interesting. Conquered by the pastor's righteousness, Adam admits that he watched him and repented of his deed.
The main roles in this picture were played by Peter Adamchik, Margosha Bela, Ken Dukan, Hristo Shopov, Ennio Fantastikini.
An interesting work was waiting for Placido in the mini-series "War and Peace" - it created the image of Helen Kuragina, a socialite and an impregnable beauty. This is a rather complex role, given that Helen is completely hypocritical and deceitful, but these qualities are so hard to see behind their outward beauty and courtesy. However, Violante brilliantly coped with this role.
And almost immediately she got a role in a fairy tale, and this is a completely different genre, another work is the image of the Blue Fairy and a magical story about a wooden boy in the film “The Magic History of Pinocchio” (2008). This is not quite the fairy tale that viewers are accustomed to: there are many heroes who are not in Collodie's book, but this makes it even more interesting.
This year for the actress was very eventful and unexpected: she was also able to star in the Indian film "75 cents" about three friends who solve their problems in different ways and often fall into unpleasant stories.
Then she played a major role in the biographical film "Moana" about the life, work and death of an Italian porn actress, actress, model, TV show participant, public and political figure, writer Moana Pozzi. There were many rumors about her life, because at one time she was very popular in Italy.
The description of these films shows how wide the acting range of Violante Placido is from dramatic roles to fairy-tale characters. However, critics argue that best of all, she succeeds in the role of strong women who are forced to fight for the right to life and a happy fate.
There is another interesting role in her portfolio - seductresses of the hero George Clooney in the film "American" (2010). In this film, a Hollywood celebrity plays a hit man who did not want to, but fell in love with the heroine Violante. He relaxes, loses his grip, and all sorts of misadventures begin to happen to him. In the end, friendship and love win, and evil is punished.
