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Greta Scacchi

Highest Rated: 100% Defence of the Realm (1985)

Lowest Rated: 0% Head Full of Honey (2018)

Birthday: Feb 18, 1960

Birthplace: Milan, Lombardy, Italy

This beautiful light-haired international lead first gained attention as the spirited grandmother in the flashback sequence of the Merchant-Ivory production, "Heat and Dust" (1982). Scacchi (pronounced "Skaa-key") was also memorable as the daffy secretary in Dusan Makavejev's "The Coca Cola Kid" (1985). By the late 1980s, despite such high-profile projects as "White Mischief" (1987) and "Presumed Innocent" (1990), she seemed typecast as a two-dimensional femme fatale. Her career received a renewed critical boost thanks to a standout performance in Robert Altman's "The Player" (1992). Scacchi seemed to excel in several period films, notably "Country Life" (1994), Michael Blakemore's adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya." She then reteamed with Merchant-Ivory to portray Maria Cosway who entrances the future US president in "Jefferson in Paris" (1995) and segued to Douglas McGrath's adaptation of Jane Austen's "Emma" (1996).

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Highest rated movies

100% 69% Defence of the Realm
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97% 84% The Player
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96% 78% Amanda
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86% 67% Presumed Innocent
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84% 76% Emma
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83% 78% Ways to Live Forever
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83% 53% Country Life
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80% 73% Good Morning Babylon
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80% 54% White Mischief
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Greta Scacchi

Greta Scacchi Greta Scacchi DEFENCE OF THE REALM, Greta Scacchi, Gabriel Byrne, 1985, (c)Hemdale A.D. The Bible Continues, Greta Scacchi, 'The Tomb Is Open', Season 1, Ep. #1, 04/05/2015, ©NBC THE BROWNING VERSION, from left: Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine, Albert Finney, 1994, © Paramount SHATTERED, Greta Scacchi, Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, 1991, (c) MGM A MAN IN LOVE, (aka UN HOMME AMOUREUX), Greta Scacchi, Claudia Cardinale, 1987, (c) Cinecom Pictures A MAN IN LOVE, (aka UN HOMME AMOUREUX), Greta Scacchi, 1987, (c) Cinecom Pictures A.D. The Bible Continues, Babou Ceesay (L), Greta Scacchi (C), Chipo Chung (R), 'The Tomb Is Open', Season 1, Ep. #1, 04/05/2015, ©NBC THE BROWNING VERSION, from left: Matthew Modine, Greta Scacchi, 1994, © Paramount View more photos

Filmography

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Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet He Ain't Heavy Unknown (Character) - 2024
38% 26% Run Rabbit Run Joan (Character) - 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Told You So Frances (Character) - 2023
No Score Yet 79% The Royal Nanny Mrs. Lansbury (Character) - 2022
70% 52% Shepherd Glenys Black (Character) - 2021
No Score Yet 100% Resurrection Unknown (Character) - 2021
54% 60% Waiting for the Barbarians Mai (Character) - 2019
48% 31% Palm Beach Charlotte (Character) - 2019
0% 71% Head Full of Honey Abbess (Character) $8.7K 2018
60% 67% Operation Finale Vera Eichmann (Character) $17.6M 2018
96% 78% Amanda Alison (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet 38% The Girl in the Fog Beatrice Leman (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet 73% Tenderness Aurora (Character) - 2017
73% 58% The White King General Meade (Voice) - 2016
78% 35% The Falling Miss Mantel (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet 25% Hindenburg: The Last Flight Helen van Zandt (Character) - 2011
83% 78% Ways to Live Forever Private instructor (Character) - 2010
No Score Yet 70% Miss Austen Regrets Cassandra Austen (Character) - 2008
62% 52% Brideshead Revisited Cara (Character) $6.4M 2008
No Score Yet 60% The Trojan Horse Unknown (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 30% L'Amour Caché Dr. Dubois (Character) - 2007
20% 40% Shoot on Sight Susan Ali (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet 76% By the Pricking of My Thumbs Tuppence Beresford (Character) - 2006
64% 42% The Book of Revelation Isabel (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet 87% Broken Trail Unknown (Character) - 2006
37% 48% Flightplan Therapist (Character) $89.7M 2005
43% 64% Beyond the Sea Mary Duvan (Character) $6.1M 2004
No Score Yet 50% Under a False Name Nicoletta (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet 18% Baltic Storm Julia Reuter (Character) - 2003
65% 34% Festival in Cannes Alice Palmer (Character) $299.0K 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Farm Liz Cooper (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet One of the Hollywood Ten Gale Sondergaard (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 78% Looking for Alibrandi Christina Alibrandi (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 46% Ladies Room Lucia (Character) - 1999
36% 43% Cotton Mary Lily Macintosh (Character) $299.4K 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Manor Unknown (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 59% Tom's Midnight Garden Aunt Gwen Kitson (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 35% Love & Rage Agnes MacDonnell (Character) - 1998
73% 91% The Red Violin Victoria Byrd (Oxford) (Character) $9.5M 1998
No Score Yet 25% Macbeth Lady Macbeth (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 39% The Serpent's Kiss Juliana (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 60% The Odyssey Unknown (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 69% Cosi Mental Patient (Character) $33.8K 1996
84% 76% Emma Mrs. Weston (Character) $22.2M 1996
No Score Yet 79% Rasputin Tsarina Alexandra (Character) - 1996
31% 35% Jefferson in Paris Maria Cosway (Character) $2.5M 1995
78% 79% The Browning Version Laura Crocker-Harris (Character) $172.1K 1994
83% 53% Country Life Deborah Voysey (Character) $87.5K 1994
No Score Yet 80% Salt on Our Skin Les Vaisseaux du coeur (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Desire George (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Turtle Beach Judith (Character) $708.4K 1992
97% 84% The Player June Gudmundsdottir (Character) $21.7M 1992
No Score Yet 30% Fires Within Isabel (Character) $67.3K 1991
36% 60% Shattered Judith Merrick (Character) $11.1M 1991
86% 67% Presumed Innocent Carolyn Polhemus (Character) $85.7M 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Woman in the Moon Angela (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet La donna della luna Angela (Character) - 1988
80% 73% Good Morning Babylon Edna Bonnano (Character) $26.5K 1987
80% 54% White Mischief Diana Lady Broughton (Character) $24.5K 1987
50% 57% A Man in Love Jane Steiner (Character) $25.6K 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ebony Tower Diana 'The Mouse' (Character) - 1987
100% 69% Defence of the Realm Nina Beckman (Character) - 1985
47% 40% The Coca-Cola Kid Terri (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Burke and Wills Julia Matthews (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 36% Camille Marguerite Gautier (Character) - 1984
79% 58% Heat and Dust Olivia, his wife (The Nineteen Twenties in the Civil Lines at Satipur) (Character) $19.9K 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dr. Fischer of Geneva Anna-Luise Fischer (Character) - 1983

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No Score Yet 72% Darby and Joan Joan Kirkhope (Character) 2022
57% 83% Versailles Unknown (Character) 2017
58% 85% A.D. The Bible Continues Mother Mary (Character) 2015
85% No Score Yet Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King Unknown (Character) 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mystery! Unknown (Character) 2006