Alba Rohrwacher
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    • Birthday: 1979-02-27
    • Born Place: Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Alba Rohrwacher

Alba Rohrwacher is an acclaimed Italian actress renowned internationally for her versatile and often emotionally intense performances in independent and arthouse cinema. Born on February 27, 1979, in Florence, Italy, to a German father and an Italian mother, she initially pursued medicine before transitioning to acting studies at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. She is the older sister of celebrated film director Alice Rohrwacher, and the two frequently collaborate, notably on films like The Wonders (2014), Happy as Lazzaro (2018), and La Chimera (2023). Alba Rohrwacher's breakthrough came with Giovanna's Father (2008) and Days and Clouds (2007), earning her two David di Donatello Awards (the Italian Oscars). She achieved global recognition with major roles in films such as Luca Guadagnino's I Am Love (2009), Saverio Costanzo's Hungry Hearts (2014)—for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival—and Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Lost Daughter (2021). On television, she is widely known as the narrator of the HBO/RAI series My Brilliant Friend. She is highly regarded for her ability to portray introspective, complex characters navigating themes of family, identity, and solitude, and she continues to be a fixture in major European film festivals like Cannes and Venice. 

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