Evelyn Famà
Evelyn Famà | |
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 Famà in 2024 | |
| Born | 14 June 1980 Catania |
| Occupations | actress, dancer |
Evelyn Famà (Catania, 14 June 1980) is an Italian actress and dancer.
Early life
Evelyn Famà was born in Catania, where she began studying classical, modern, and contemporary dance at the age of five.[1] She later enrolled in the Accademia di belle arti di Catania in the set design department. Her career began as a dancer under the direction of choreographer Silvana Lo Giudice, performing classical ballets such as Giselle, Paquita, and Don Quixote, as well as contemporary dance-theatre adaptations of works by Giovanni Verga, Luigi Pirandello[2] and García Lorca. At eighteen, she was selected to join the Umberto Spadaro Academy of Dramatic Arts of the Teatro Stabile di Catania.[1]
Acting career
After graduating from the Academy, she began working continuously in theatre, film, and television, collaborating with major private national productions and prominent repertory theatres. Her first national tour was Lysistrata by Aristophanes, produced by her city's repertory theatre and the Politecnico of Rome. The day after the tour ended, she earned her degree in Set Design, with a thesis on Pina Baush.[1] In 2001, she won Best Actress at the international Salvo Randone award in Syracuse, standing out among actors and actresses who had graduated from Italy's top theatre academies. Her acting résumé includes renowned directors such as Ronconi, Puggelli, Mirabella, Siani, Di Robilant,[1] Nekrosius, and Coucier.[3]
Among her major theatre tours, she played Hecuba as Polyxena alongside Paola Gassman, and The Trojan Women as Cassandra.[4] Other leading roles on stage include Alda in Tra vestiti che ballano by Rosso di San Secondo,[5] the famous Mirra by Vittorio Alfieri, and the Virtuous Mrs. Perella in The Man, the Beast and the Virtue. In 2004, she won the Hystrio Award for Vocational Promise in Milan.
On television, she played Palmira Frisone in the Rai drama Il Figlio della Luna.[6] On the big screen, she starred in a comic duo with Nino Frassica in the film Un milione di giorni by Emanuele Giliberti.[7][8][9] She also starred in the docufiction La Voce del corpo[10] and in Mauro c'ha da fare by Alessandro Di Robilant,[11][12] alongside Carlo Ferreri.
In 2020, she appeared in The Shameful Story (La storia vergognosa), a documentary film nominated for the 2021 Silver Ribbon Awards, produced by Istituto Luce and broadcast on Rai Storia Watch on RaiPlay.[13] Directed by Nella Condorelli, Famà performs a powerful monologue in the final scene as Provvidenza Rumore,[14] a courageous witness from the Monti Sicani region in 1911, testifying at the trial for the murder of Lorenzo Panepinto.[15] Since 2007, she has been performing the comic monologue Morir di fama, directed by Carlo Ferreri,[16][17] portraying a stressed yet ambitious actress obsessed with fame and appearances in a surreal setting.[18] The show has also been staged at the Teatro Cafè Sconcerto in Venice, in collaboration with Zelig.[19] She received several awards for excerpts from this one-woman show,[20] including a special mention at the Premio Calandra and the Premio Rubens.[18]
In October 2009, at the Teatro Nuovo in Turin, she won the XVIII National Cabaret Festival with a unique futurist-style performance focused on gesture, expression, and vocal technique. She also received the Ernst Thole Award for Most Original Interpretation.[21][22]
In 2019, she voiced Giuseppina in Tufo, an animated documentary inspired by the story of Ignazio Cutrò, a construction entrepreneur who was a victim of mafia racketeering in the province of Agrigento.[23][24]
Since 2015, together with Tuccio Musumeci he has played Falista in Pipino il Breve by Tony Cucchiara, receiving flattering reviews for "the use of the body and facial expressiveness absolutely out of the ordinary".[25]
In 2025 she starred for Gennaro Nunziante and Angelo Duro in the film I Am the End of the World,[26] in the role of Anna.
She was the testimonial of the commercials for Girella Motta,[27] for the Calcio Catania season ticket campaign in 2008,[28] and for Lidl in 2013[29] the latter directed by Luca Lucini.
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | La voce del corpo | Luca Vullo | ||
| 2011 | Un milione di giorni | Emanuele Giliberti | ||
| 2012 | Mauro c'ha da fare [30] | Alessandro Di Robilant | ||
| 2017 | La storia vergognosa | Nella Condorelli | Documentary | |
| 2020 | Cyrano | Joe Wright | ||
| 2024 | Succede anche nelle migliori famiglie | Alessandro Siani | ||
| 2025 | Io sono la fine del mondo | Anna | Gennaro Nunziante | |
| 2025 | Vanni il Siciliano | Nella Condorelli | Documentary |
Short films
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes | Awards and nominations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Italian Comics | Alessandro Marinaro | Short film | ||
| 2005 | Campioni del Mondo | Alessandro Marinaro | Short film | ||
| 2008 | Motore! | Alessandro Marinaro | Short film | ||
| 2008 | Il dito sull'orologio | Francesco Lo Bianco | Short film | ||
| 2009 | Italian Comics II – Veline | Alessandro Marinaro | Short film | ||
| 2019 | Tufo | Giuseppina (voice) | Victoria Musci | Animated short | |
| 2021 | Free | Aashish Gadhvi | Short film | ||
| 2022 | Piece of Art | Rubens Peeters | Short film | ||
| 2022 | Look at me | Gina Simone | Short film | ||
| 2023 | Come il sale nell'acqua | Fabio Manfrè | Short film | ||
| 2023 | Luma | Rachel Albert | Short film | Best Experimental Film Rhode Island Film Festival | |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Il figlio della luna | Palmira Frisone | Gianfranco Albano | Rai Fiction |
| 2007 | Phone Center Brambilla | Maurizio Monti | Jimmy Channel | |
| 2011 | Bambine cattive | Simona Lianza | Comedy Central (Sky) | |
| 2017 | Metropolitaun | Clemente Panebianco | Ultima TV |
Advertising
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Calcio Catania | Alessandro Marinaro | Subscription campaign | |
| 2013 | Lidl – Arance | Luca Lucini | TV commercial | |
| 2017 | Sharing bag | Maurizio Cannata | Web spot | |
| 2017 | Gira meglio con Girella | Maurizio Cannata | Web spot | |
| 2024 | Teatro Stabile di Catania | Antonio Parrinello | Institutional promo | |
| 2025 | Malatesta | Alessandro Marinaro | Booktrailer |
Theatre
Actress
| Year | Title | Author | Director | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 e dal 2015 al 2025 | Pipino il Breve | Tony Cucchiara | Giuseppe Di Martino | Falista |
| 1998 | La fanciulla che campava di vento | Tony Cucchiara | Armando Pugliese | |
| 1998 | I Malavoglia | Giovanni Verga | Giovanni Anfuso | Lia Malavoglia |
| 1999 | Lisistrata | Aristophanes | Mario Prosperi | |
| 2000 | La Penna di Hu | E. Donato | Ezio Donato | |
| 2000 | L'Inganni d'amore | Musumeci Catalano | Antonio Venturino | Flora |
| 2002 | Le rane | Aristophanes | Luca Ronconi | |
| 2002 | Prometeo | Aeschylus | Luca Ronconi | |
| 2002 | Baccanti | Euripide | Luca Ronconi | |
| 2002 | Ivanov | Anton Pavlovich Cechov | Eimuntas Nekrosius | |
| 2002 | Sogno di una notte di mezza estate | William Shakespeare | Franco Però | Ermia |
| 2002 | Tra Vestiti che ballano | Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo | Romano Bernardi | Alda |
| 2002 | L'Uomo, la bestia e la virtù | Luigi Pirandello | Alvaro piccardi | Rosaria (I act), Grazia (II act) |
| 2003 | La Barca dei comici | da Carlo Goldoni | Franco Però | Mariuccia, Rosaura |
| 2003 | Vita miserie e dissolutezze di Micio Tempio Poeta | Filippo Arriva | Romano Bernardi | Nina |
| 2004 | Ecuba | Euripides | Giovanni Anfuso | Polissena |
| 2005 | Una Terra di nuvole e fiori | da Gesualdo Bufalino | Marco Baliani | Noemi da "La Panchina" |
| 2005 | La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa | Dacia Maraini | Lamberto Puggelli | |
| 2006 | Antonio e Cleopatra | William Shakespeare | Lamberto Puggelli | Clown |
| 2007 | Morir di Fama | Evelyn Famà | Carlo Ferreri | |
| 2008 | Una Festa Barocca | Vari Siciliani | Roberto Laganà Manoli | Colapesce |
| 2008 | Chantecler | Edmond Rostand | Armando Pugliese | |
| 2009 | Turandot | Carlo Gozzi | Emanuele Giliberti | Adelma |
| 2010 | Season's Greetings | Alan Ayckbourn | Giovanni Lombardo Radice | Jane Hopcroft |
| 2011 | Mirra | Vittorio Alfieri | Tatiana Alescio | Mirra |
| 2013 | Il Contravveleno | Nino Martoglio | Turi Giordano | Tina |
| 2013 | Questa terra ancora canta | Vincenzo Spampinato | Narratrice, Danzatrice | |
| 2013 | Die Fledermaus | Johann Strauss | Michele Mirabella | Ida |
| 2014 | Il Medico dei pazzi | Eduardo Scarpetta | Armando Pugliese | Rosina |
| 2014 | Coefore | Eschilo | Daniele Salvo | Coro |
| 2015 | Crisi di madri | Marcial Coucier | Romano Bernardi | Sylvie |
| 2015 | Il Ratto delle Sabine | Von Schontan | Pippo Pattavina | Marianna |
| 2016 | Il Circo magico | Gianni Clementi | Gianni Salvo | |
| 2016 | Annata Ricca massaru cuntentu | Nino Martoglio | Giuseppe Romani | Gna Santa |
| 2017 | Così è (se vi pare) | Luigi Pirandello | Gianni Salvo | Signora Ponza |
| 2017 | Ma non è una cosa seria | Luigi Pirandello | Romano Bernardi | Loletta Festa |
| 2017 | Il Cavaliere Pedagna | Luigi Capuana | Giuseppe Romani | Elsa Moro |
| 2017 | Tutto per bene | Luigi Pirandello | Turi Giordano | Palma |
| 2018 | Miles Gloriosus | Giuseppe Fava da Plauto | Romano Bernardi | |
| 2018 | In cima al Campanile | Achille Campanile | Emanuele Giliberti | |
| 2022 | L'uomo, la bestia e la virtù | Luigi Pirandello | Carlo Ferreri | La Signora Perella |
| 2022 | Caccia al Lupo | Giovanni Verga | Ezio Donato | Mariangela |
| 2023 | Histoire du soldat | Igor Strawinkij | Ezio Donato | |
| 2024 | Peer Gynt | Henrik Ibsen | Alessandro Idonea | Woman in Green |
| 2024 | Una Finestra sul mondo | autori vari | Massimo Leggio | Guest Star |
| 2026 | R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots | Karel Capek | Cinzia Maccagnano | Helena Glory |
| 2026 | The School for Wives | Moliere | Luca Verdone | Agnès |
Dancer
| Year | Title | Music / Source | Choreographer / Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | For Frank | Frank Sinatra | Silvana Lo Giudice |
| 1996 | Nel Regno di Mago Alfabeto | Silvana Lo Giudice | |
| 1996 | Paquita | Ludwig Minkus | Silvana Lo Giudice |
| 1997 | La lupa | René Aubry, from Giovanni Verga | Silvana Lo Giudice |
| 1997 | Nozze di sangue | Federico García Lorca | Silvana Lo Giudice |
| 1998 | Orient Express | René Aubry | Cinzia Cona |
| 1998 | Danza e Parole | Orazio Torrisi | |
| 1998 | Gengè | Luigi Pirandello | Cinzia Cona |
| 1999 | Per i sentieri di Trezza | from I Malavoglia by Verga | Donatella Capraro |
| 2000 | Il principe Dracula | Aldo Lo Castro |
Awards
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Official website of Evelyn Famà - Actress". www.evelynfama.com. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ↑ "Evelyn Famà - Actress - e-TALENTA". it.e-talenta.eu. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
- ↑ "Crisi di madri: famiglia, debolezza e isteria al Brancati - Directed by Romano Bernardi | Leggimionline". www.leggimionline.it. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
- ↑ Antonella Guglielmino (19 March 2014). "Evelyn Famà as "Cassandra" for the IND centenary". GLOBUS Magazine (in Italian). Retrieved 23 July 2024.
- ↑ "Fonte a Ponente, Luna Crescente". Monastero dei Benedettini (in Italian). Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ↑ "Il Figlio della Luna". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ↑ Sentieri Selvaggi staff (18 October 2012). "Un milione di giorni". SentieriSelvaggi (in Italian). Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ↑ "Un milione di giorni - Film (2011)". ComingSoon.it (in Italian). Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ↑ "Review of Un milione di giorni (2011)". Movieplayer.it (in Italian). Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ↑ Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "LA VOCE DEL CORPO by Luca Vullo". iicosaka.esteri.it (in Italian). Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ↑ ""Mauro c'ha da fare": disillusion and hope of an eccentric unemployed man". Recensito.net (in Italian). Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ↑ Evelyn Famà (26 November 2017). Evelyn Famà in "Mauro c'ha da fare". Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ↑ "La storia vergognosa - Video - RaiPlay". RaiPlay.
- ↑ "Palermo Culture Portal". Palermo Culture (in Italian). Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ↑ Redazione (16 January 2021). ""La storia vergognosa" Best Foreign Film 2020". Articolo21 (in Italian). Retrieved 29 July 2024.
- ↑ "MORIR DI FAMA" (in Italian). Retrieved 23 July 2024.
- ↑ Evelyn Famà (14 January 2008). Evelyn Famà in "Morir di Fama". Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- 1 2 Michele Minnicino (20 May 2018). ""Morir di fama" at the Piccolo in Catania confirms Evelyn Famà's one-woman-show skills". Cronaca Oggi Quotidiano (in Italian). Retrieved 23 July 2024.
- ↑ "Morir di fama". Agenda Venezia. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ↑ "Press Review – MORIR DI FAMA" (in Italian). Retrieved 23 July 2024.
- ↑ "National Cabaret Festival awarded to Evelyn Famà of Catania". 13 October 2009.
- ↑ alterbac (14 October 2009). "Evelyn Famà wins the 2009 National Cabaret Festival". Trovariso (in Italian). Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ↑ "Annecy Festival". Annecy Festival. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ↑ "Tufo, Italy, 2023". www.fctp.it. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ↑ Paolo Vitale (3 June 2015). "REVIEW - PIPINO IL BREVE". Rivista Musical! (in Italian). Retrieved 23 July 2024.
- ↑ ""Io sono la fine del mondo", Evelyn Famà from Catania in the cast: "Italian cinema needs Angelo Duro"" (in Italian). 4 January 2025. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
- ↑ Famà, Evelyn (6 December 2017). "EVELYN FAMA' in "GIRA MEGLIO CON GIRELLA" - web spot Contest". YouTube. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ↑ Famà, Evelyn (5 December 2009). "Evelyn Famà in "La Polvere"". YouTube. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ↑ Milk Adv (15 January 2014). "Lidl - Anch'io sogg. Freschezza". YouTube. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
- ↑ 095mm (17 February 2026). Mauro c'ha da fare - Film. Retrieved 19 February 2026 – via YouTube.
{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ "Morir di Fama - Università di Catania - L'Agenda". www.agenda.unict.it (in Italian). Retrieved 23 July 2024.
- ↑ "La cronaca 2004 – Premio Hystrio". Retrieved 23 July 2024.
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- ↑ "Il Festival Nazionale del Cabaret alla catanese Evelyn Famà". 13 October 2009.