Angela Goodwin ( Bucci; 1 August 1925 – 25 March 2016) was an Italian stage, film and television actress.
Life and career Goodwin was born in Rome, Italy, the daughter of an Italian-American father. She spent her youth in the US where she enrolled at several drama courses and started her professional career with a stage company in Washington, D.C. In the second half of the 1960s she came back to Italy, where she continued to work on stage with some of the major companies of the time, including the ones directed by Orazio Costa, Vittorio Gassman, Giancarlo Sbragia and Garinei & Giovannini.
In 1970, Goodwin had her film breakout as Fortunata, one of the Tettamanzi sisters in the Alberto Lattuada's commedia all'italiana Come Have Coffee with Us. Another major success in her career was the role of Laura Perozzi, Philippe Noiret's wife in Mario Monicelli's box office hit My Friends, a role she reprised in the 1982 sequel All My Friends Part 2. She was also very active on television. Her last work was the short film Carlo e Clara.
Goodwin was married to actor Franco Giacobini, with whom she often collaborated on stage.
Filmography Year Title Role Notes1970 Come Have Coffee with Us Fortunata 1970 Defeat of the Mafia Vice Consul 1972 La cosa buffa The Landlady 1973 Daniele e Maria 1974 Abbasso tutti, viva noi Marisa Nardi 1974 L'albero dalle foglie rosa 1974 Verginità Concetta (Segment 2)1975 Autopsy Danielle 1975 My Friends Nora Perozzi 1975 Quanto è bello lu murire acciso Enrichetta 1976 La linea del fiume Margherita Torretti 1976 A Sold Life Miguel Atienza's Mother 1976 The Cassandra Crossing Nun 1977 The Passengers 1978 Goodbye & Amen The Ambassador's Wife 1978 Last Feelings Maria Micheli, Diego's mother 1979 The Meadow Giovannis mother 1980 Eden no sono Michele's Mother 1982 All My Friends Part 2 Nora Perozzi 1982 Di padre in figlio Herself 1983 Sing Sing Lady Marian (first story) 1984 Claretta Luisa 1984 Aurora Nurse TV movie1985 Mai con le donne 1985 Woman of Wonders Maga Terenzi 1987 Julia and Julia Paolo's Mother 1988 Ti presento un'amica 1989 Modì Eugenia 1990 Alberto Express La mère 1990 Traces of an Amorous Life Wife of Giorgio 1992 La piovra, Mrs. Canevari 6 episodes1995 Favola contaminata Nonna 2000 Denti Ciuta 2001 One Man Up Franca 2002 Ginostra Mother Superior 2004 The Consequences of Love Isabella 2007 The Hideout Mother Superior 2010 Hai paura del buio Anna's Grandmother 2010 Hayfever Signora 2012 Il volto di un'altra Proprietaria di un negozio di animali impagliati
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