Maria Rosaria Omaggio

Is an Italian actress, director and writer, who also works actively abroad. She starred in 36 cinema movies, 40 television series, 80 theatrical lead performances, 20 radio brodcastings, published 6 records and 7 books, shot various docufilms, a short awarded film, she directed various prose plays and 4 liric operas. She has received 45 among national and international awards. Considered the ideal interpreter of Oriana Fallaci, for the film “Walesa, the man of hope” by the Polish Oscar winner Andrzej Wajda, she received, among others, the Pasinetti prize at the LXX Venice Film Festival. She played her on the radio and in the audiobooks “The Rage and the Pride”, “If You Are Born a Woman” and “Pasolini, an Uncomfortable Man”. In the theater she conceived and performed ” Oriana’s Words in Concert”, a show broadcast on Rai and staged at the end of January 2020 also in New York. The last film she starred with Sergio Castellitto, directed by director Edoardo De Angelis, is “Saturday, Sunday and Monday”, based on the theatrical comedy by De Filippo, 2022 Silver Ribbon Award for best TV movie. Her new theatrical show is ” Planet Earth Home”: a journey through words, images and music from the West and the East, to communicate that the Planet Earth is our home and above all that we are an integral part of it.

She practices since 1988 TaiJi Yang form fist, sword and fan and she is a federal instructor of the C.S.I.- Italian Sports Center.

Because of her commitment to social issues, she is an UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2005.

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