Marina Pierro

Born: 1956-10-09

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).


Placeholder

Suspiria

as Figurant (uncredited)
Released: 1977-02-01

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is...

Movie page

The Innocent

as uncredited
Released: 1976-05-18

Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he...

Movie page

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne

as Miss Fanny Osbourne
Released: 1981-06-17

In 19th century London, a sex maniac sneaks into the engagement party of Dr. Henry Jekyll and...

Movie page

Behind Convent Walls

as Sister Veronica
Released: 1978-01-25

A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the...

Movie page

The Living Dead Girl

as Hélène
Released: 1982-10-23

A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must...

Movie page

Immoral Women

as Margherita Luti
Released: 1979-03-07

The first episode – featuring frequent Borowczyk muse Marina Pierro – is the longest and, in a...

Movie page

The Art of Love

as Claudia
Released: 1983-12-07

Young student Claudine has a dream in which the Roman student Cornelius, fascinated by the...

Movie page

I prosseneti

as uncredited
Released: 1976-04-28

David and his wife Gilda transform their beautiful villa in a brothel, which are home to several...

Movie page

Love Rites

as Myriam
Released: 1987-07-19

Hugo, a vain clothing buyer, meets Myriam on a train and pursues a relationship with her. He is...

Movie page

Taxi Love - Servizio per signora

as uncredited
Released: 1976-01-01

Movie page

Phantasmagoria of the Interior

as Fanny Osbourne
Released: 2015-04-20

PHANTASMAGORIA OF THE INTERIOR is an audiovisual essay devoted to Walerian Borowczyk's film THE...

Movie page

Série rose

as Bianca
First aired: 1986-11-08

An anthology of erotic stories by famous writers like Guy de Maupassant, Nicolas Edme Restif de...

TV Show page