
Acting
Feb 26, 1979
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Alba Rohrwacher
Acting
Biography
Alba Rohrwacher is an Italian actress. In 2009, she received a David di Donatello for Best Actress for her performance in Pupi Avati's Giovanna's Father. On 6 September 2014, Rohrwacher won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 71st Venice International Film Festival for the film Hungry Hearts.
Feature Films (79)

It’s a story of a brother and a sister, Sergio and Maria, told backward in time, from adulthood to childhood. Through the years the two siblings invent a game that they call “Mìkles”: their very own survival technique used to resist the abuse brought upon them by their father and, at the same time…
Fare bene Mikles

Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.
Quiet Chaos

Michele Casali is a middle-class professor in Fascist Italy who teaches at the same high school attended by his only daughter, Giovanna. A shy and sensitive girl, her insecurities are only magnified by Michele's overprotectiveness—reaching a point of no return.
Giovanna's Father

An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.
Melissa P.

Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.
I Am Love

A group of Italian villagers struggle to survive during a tumultuous time in 1943, debating how much assistance to give the partisans with the impending arrival of the Germans. Based on True Events.
The Man Who Will Come

Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship with children, home, etc. Anna, feeling as though the fire has fizzled in that relationship takes up with co-worker Domenico and the two begin a passionate affair.
Come Undone

The young girl, an insomniac. The mother, an artist. The dog, named Marcel. The little girl loves her mother immensely, but her mother loves Marcel more than anything else. Will an unpredictable event allow those circles of love to reconnect?
Marcel!

Teo, a student in Astrophysics, shares an apartment with his girlfriend, Carla, who is also a student. One evening, while he is absent-mindedly crossing the road, he is knocked down by a car. At the wheel of the car is Mavi, a girl originally from Spalato, who came to Italy with her father when she was a little girl. Teo is lying on the ground, injured, and Mavi helps him, before disappearing without a trace. The two characters meet again by chance some time later and a strong and deep bond forms between them.
Nelle Tue Mani

An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.
A Brighter Tomorrow

Prime numbers are divisible only by one and themselves. These numbers are solitary and incomprehensible to others. Alice and Mattia are both "prime", both haunted by the tragedies that have marked them in childhood: a skiing accident for Alice which has caused a defect in her leg, and the loss of his twin sister for Matthew.
The Solitude of Prime Numbers

The film is freely inspired by the great actress Monica Vitti, but it is in no way a biopic. It is the story of a woman named Monica, who loses her memory and regains meaning in her life.
In the Mirror
Television & Series (5)

When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.
My Brilliant Friend

In Rome, a Virgin Mary statue is found crying blood. Pondering on the implications of the existence of miracles, and eventually, the existence of God, the people involved in the enigma start losing their minds.
The Miracle

When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.
My Brilliant Friend

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.

