{{Short description|Italian actress (1916–2020)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Anna Maria Bottini | image = File:Annamariabottini.jpg | birth_date = {{Birth date|1916|3|24|df=yes}} | birth_place = Milan, Lombardy, Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|08|09|1916|3|24|df=yes}} | death_place = Giove, Umbria, Italy | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1938–1993 }} '''Anna Maria Bottini''' (24 March 1916 – 9 August 2020) was an Italian actress.
Bottini attended the Accademia dei Filodrammatici in Milan, where she graduated in 1936, beginning her acting career at the end of World War II.<ref>{{cite web|work=occhionotizie.it|url=https://www.occhionotizie.it/morta-anna-maria-bottini-gattopardo-visconti/|title=È morta Anna Maria Bottini, recitò nel Gattopardo di Visconti: si è spenta a 104 anni|date=11 August 2020|accessdate=11 August 2020}}</ref> A character actress, Bottini worked in dozens of films, also collaborating with directors such as Luchino Visconti, for whom she starred in ''The Leopard''. Bottini abandoned the film activity in the early 1980s, turning exclusively to the theatre.
Bottini died on 9 August 2020, at the age of 104.<ref>{{cite web|work=fanpage.it|url=https://cinema.fanpage.it/e-morta-anna-maria-bottini-recito-nel-gattopardo-di-visconti-e-fu-volto-della-camomilla-bonomelli/|title=Morta Anna Maria Bottini a 104 anni, recitò ne Il Gattopardo e fu volto della camomilla Bonomelli|date=11 August 2020|accessdate=11 August 2020}}</ref>
==Partial filmography== {{Div col}} *''The Sons of the Marquis Lucera'' (1938) *''Altura'' (1949) * ''Songs in the Streets'' (1950) *''La paura fa 90'' (1951) *''Abbiamo vinto!'' (1951) *''The Walk'' (1953) *''Angels of Darkness'' (1953) *''The Law'' (1959) *''The Overtaxed'' (1959) *''The Leopard'' (1963) *''The Swindlers'' (1963) *''A Monster and a Half'' (1964) *''Rugantino'' (1973) {{div col end}}
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0098683|name=Anna Maria Bottini}}
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