{{Short description|Italian actress and voice actress (1938–2024)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Gabriella Andreini | image = Gabriella Andreini.jpg | image_caption = Gabriella Andreini in 1975 | birth_name = Gabriella Baistrocchi | birth_date = 16 April 1938 | birth_place = Naples, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Actress, voice actress | years_active = 1957–1980s }}
'''Gabriella Andreini''' (born '''Gabriella Baistrocchi'''; 16 April 1938) is an Italian actress and voice actress. Active in cinema, television, and theatre from the late 1950s through the 1980s, she appeared in numerous films of the ''commedia all'italiana'' and adventure genres.<ref name="cinematografo">{{cite web |title=Gabriella Andreini |url=https://www.cinematografo.it/cast/gabriella-andreini-lw0aogwb |website=Cinematografo.it |publisher=Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo |access-date=30 November 2025 |language=it}}</ref><ref name="repubblica">{{cite news |title=Addio a Gabriella Andreini, attrice di cinema e teatro |work=La Repubblica |date=29 April 2024 |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Necrologio Gabriella Andreini |work=Corriere della Sera |date=29 April 2024 |language=it}}</ref>
== Biography == Andreini was born in Naples on 16 April 1938. The daughter of an army general, she studied acting in Rome at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico.<ref name="bien">{{cite web |url=https://asac.labiennale.org/attivita/teatro/365017 |title=Scheda teatro |language=Italian |publisher=Venice Biennale |access-date=2025-11-30 }}</ref><ref name="ATTRICI">{{cite book |author=Poppi, Roberto |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: Le Attrici |date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore |isbn=888440214X |pages=12-3 |chapter=Andreini, Gabriella |chapter-url=https://www.google.it/books/edition/Le_attrici/Y_WFEVsGvhYC?hl=it&gbpv=1&dq=ANDREINI+Gabriella+(Gabriella+Baistrocchi,+Napoli+16+aprile+1938)&pg=PA12&printsec=frontcover}}</ref> Her early stage work included performances with the Gassman–Randone company in ''Otello'' and with Alberto Lupo in Anton Chekhov's ''Platonov''; she also appeared in the musical comedy ''Io e la margherita'' alongside Walter Chiari.<ref name="repubblica" /><ref name="ATTRICI" />
She made her television debut in 1957 in ''Fermenti'' by Eugene O'Neill, directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia. She later appeared in ''Un mese in campagna'' by Ivan Turgenev and in several episodes of ''Le inchieste del commissario Maigret'', directed by Mario Landi.<ref name="cinematografo" /><ref name="ATTRICI" />
== Film career == Her film career began in the early 1960s, with roles in historical and adventure films such as ''Invasion 1700'' (1962), ''Toto vs. Maciste'' (1962), and ''Captain from Toledo'' (1965).
Andreini continued to work in cinema throughout the 1970s, with appearances in films such as ''Carambola's Philosophy: In the Right Pocket'' (1975) and the television miniseries ''Ma che cos'è questo amore'' (1979).<ref name="cinematografo" /><ref name="ATTRICI" />
== Selected filmography == * ''Invasion 1700'' (1962) * ''Toto vs. Maciste'' (1962) * ''Le motorizzate'' (1963) * ''Captain from Toledo'' (1965) * ''Zorro il ribelle'' (1966) * ''Il brigadiere Pasquale Zagaria ama la mamma e la polizia'' (1973) * ''Carambola's Philosophy: In the Right Pocket'' (1975) * ''Ma che cos'è questo amore'' (TV, 1979)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Andreini, Gabriella}} Category:1938 births Category:2024 deaths Category:Italian film actresses Category:Italian television actresses Category:Italian stage actresses Category:Italian voice actresses Category:20th-century Italian actresses Category:Actresses from Naples