Chiara Caselli
Acting
Biography
Chiara Caselli (born 22 December 1967) is an Italian actress. In 1994, Caselli won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress award as well as the David di Donatello for Best Actress award. Caselli has appeared in American films including My Own Private Idaho opposite River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves.
Born: December 22, 1967
Place of Birth: Bologne, Emilie-Romagne, Italie
Known For
Where Are You? I’m Here
Fausto and Elena, two deaf teenagers from different backgrounds, meet and fall in love. As they push back against prejudice and silence – both societal and familial – their bond becomes a source of strength. Together, they navigate a world that misunderstands them and find the will to dream beyond imposed limits.
My Own Private River
Unused footage from Gus Van Sant's 1991 film My Own Private Idaho is re-contextualized in James Franco's tribute to River Phoenix.
Agon
The story of the preparation for an unspecified Asian Olympic Games by three real athletes, one of whom is the extraordinary Alice Bellandi, a judoka who won gold in Paris and kissed her girlfriend with a bleeding incisor.
My Own Private Idaho
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.
Garage Olimpo
Maria is a militant activist in an organisation opposed to the military dictatorship in Argentina. She teaches reading and writing in the shanty towns and lives with her mother in an old and run-down residence. One morning, Maria is carried off, in front of her mother, by a military squad dressed in civilian clothes. The young woman is taken to the Olimpo garage, one of the numerous torture chambers which haunt Buenos Aires to the general indifference of the population. In order to make Maria talk, Tigre, the head of the centre, gives her to one of his best men, Felix.
Father of My Children
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer. Discovering talented filmmakers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema-free and true to life-is precisely his reason for living. Yet his prestigious production company, Moon Films, is on its last legs. Too many productions, too many risks, too many debts. Storm clouds are gathering. But Grégoire ploughs on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him?
Like the Wind
The last few years in the life of Armida Miserere, female jail director who committed suicide
The American Backyard
A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary in postwar Italy. A year later, he relocates to the American Midwest to write his first novel, next to her elderly mother's house—separated by a grim garden.
Ripley's Game
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience?
Lei mi parla ancora
Nino and Caterina have been married for 65 years. After Caterina's death, their daughter Elisabetta, trying to help her father to overcome the loss, hires an author to write a book on their love story.
Filmography
as President of the Delegation
as Jole
as Doris
as Fabienne
as Elisabetta, figlia di Nino
as Clara Vestri Musy
as Laura Betti (voice) (uncredited)
as Laura
as Rita
as Carmela (archive footage)
as Sandra Bandini
as Sylvia Canvel
as Maria
as Beatrice
as Laura
as Luisa Harari
as Ariel
as Gloria
as Caterina Carrara
as Laura
as Alba
as Ana
as Leonor de Acevedo
as Leonor de Acevedo
as Alice
as Mistress
as Marcella
as Lucy Light
as Elena Satti
as Chiara
as Luigi's Daughter
as Francesca
as Isabella
as Bride
as Léna
as Carmella
as Carla
as Lill
as Giulia Mancini