Monica Vitti Cause Of Death: How Did Monica Vitti Die?

Monica Vitti was an Italian actress best known for her starring roles in films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni during the early-to-mid 1960s.

After working with Antonioni, Monica Vitti changed focus and began making comedies, working with director Mario Monicelli on many films.

Monica Vitti appeared with Marcello Mastroianni, Alain Delon, Richard Harris, Terence Stamp, and Dirk Bogarde and was widely known as “Queen of Italian cinema”.

Monica Vitti won five David di Donatello Awards for Best Actress, seven Italian Golden Globes for Best Actress, the Career Golden Globe, and the Venice Film Festival Career Golden Lion Award.

Monica Vitti’s first film role was an uncredited bit part in Edoardo Anton’s Laugh! Laugh! Laugh! (1954).

Monica Vitti was in Adriana Lecouvreur (1955), the TV series L’alfiere (1956) and the TV movies Questi ragazzi (1956) and Il tunnel (1958).

Monica Vitti also did an episode of Mont-Oriol (1958) and dubbed Rossana Rory’s voice in Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958).

Monica Vitti’s first widely noted performance was at the age of 26, in Mario Amendola’s Le dritte (1958) with Franco Fabrizi.

Monica Vitti was born on 3 November 1931 and died on 2 February 2022 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease.