Marina Pierro

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1956-10-09 (68 years old)

Place of Birth Boscotrecase, Naples, Italy

Marina Pierro

Biography

Marina Pierro (born 9 October 1956, or 1960) is an Italian actress, model, writer, and film director, who is best known for her artistic relationship with Polish filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk (1923-2006). She has been described as an "erotic icon of auteur cinema". Pierro's film career began with minor roles in several Italian films in 1976, most notably Luchino Visconti's final film, L'innocente (The Innocent). She appeared in Dario Argento's supernatural horror film Suspiria (1977) as an uncredited extra before her first prominent role as the self-styled stigmatic nun Sister Veronica in Walerian Borowczyk's 1978 film Interno di un Convento (Behind Convent Walls), based upon Stendhal's Promenades dans Rome (1829). Pierro and Borowczyk's collaboration lasted approximately ten years and comprised five completed films and one foray into episodic television. Pierro's appearances on screen have been fleeting since the late 1980s, but she has directed three short films since - In Versi (2008, also starring), Himorogi (2012, also writer/producer), and Floaters (2016, also writer/producer).

Known For

Actor

2015
1990
1987
Love Rites

as Myriam

1986
1983
The Art of Love

as Claudia

1982
1979
Immoral Women

as Margherita Luti

1978
Behind Convent Walls

as Sister Veronica

1977
Suspiria

as Figurant (uncredited)

1976
The Innocent

as Maria

Director

2012
Himorogi

as Director

Writer

2012
Himorogi

as Writer

Producer

2012
Himorogi

as Producer

Sound

2012
Himorogi

as Music