{{Short description|Italian actress (born 1936)}} {{Distinguish|Gino Rovere}} {{Infobox person | name = | image =Adua e le compagne 07.png | caption = Rovere in ''Adua and Her Friends'' (1960) | birth_name = Regina Ciccotti | birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|18 May 1936}} | birth_place = Rome, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Actress | spouse = }}
'''Regina Ciccotti''' (born 18 May 1936), known professionally as '''Gina Rovere''', is an Italian actress.
==Life and career == Born in Rome, the daughter of a haulier, at young age Ciccotti studied opera singing with the tenor Arnaldo Luzzi.<ref name="Cine70">{{cite news |last1=Norcini |first1=Matteo |last2=Ippoliti |first2=Stefano |date=January 2004 |title=Gina Rovere: Risate di gioia |work=Cine70 |pages=53-65 |issue=10}}</ref> Noted by a talent agent, she made her professional debut in an avanspettacolo company, and in 1954 she had her breakout replacing {{Interlanguage link|Franca Gandolfi|it}} as soubrette in the revue ''Giove in doppiopetto'' alongside Carlo Dapporto.<ref name="Cine70" /> In films, she was mostly cast in supporting roles; among her best known roles, she played Marcello Mastroianni's wife in ''Big Deal on Madonna Street'' by Mario Monicelli, and the prostitute Milly in Antonio Pietrangeli's ''Adua and Her Friends''.<ref name="Cine70" /><ref name=ATTRICI>{{cite book|last=Poppi, Roberto |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: Le Attrici|publisher=Gremese Editore|date= 2003|isbn=888440214X|chapter=Rovere, Gina|page=305}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== [[File:La cambiale - Gina Rovere, Totò e Peppino De Filippo.jpg|thumb|Rovere with Peppino De Filippo and Totò in ''La cambiale'']] [[File:Adua e le compagne 29.png|thumb|Rovere with Sandra Milo in ''Adua and Her Friends'']] [[File:I piaceri dello scapolo.jpg|thumb|Rovere and Memmo Carotenuto in ''I piaceri dello scapolo'']] [[File:Ultimo tango a Zagarol 13.png|thumb| Rovere in ''The Last Italian Tango'']] *''It Happened in the Park'', directed by Gianni Franciolini (1953) *''Are We Men or Corporals?'', directed by Camillo Mastrocinque (1955) *''Fathers and Sons'', directed by Mario Monicelli (1957) *''Souvenirs d'Italie'', directed by Antonio Pietrangeli (1957) *''March's Child'', directed by Antonio Pietrangeli (1958) *''Hercules'', directed by Pietro Francisci (1958) *''Big Deal on Madonna Street'', directed by Mario Monicelli (1958) *''La cambiale'', directed by Camillo Mastrocinque (1959) *''...And the Wild Wild Women'', directed by Renato Castellani (1959) *''Adua and Her Friends'', directed by Antonio Pietrangeli (1960) *''I piaceri dello scapolo'', directed by Giulio Petroni (1960) *''The Passionate Thief'', directed by Mario Monicelli (1960) *''Don Camillo: Monsignor'', directed by Carmine Gallone (1961) *''The Vengeance of Ursus'', directed by Luigi Capuano (1961) * ''Colpo gobbo all'italiana'' (1962) as Gina, directed by Lucio Fulci<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thrower |first1=Stephen|title=Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci |year=2018 |orig-date=May 1999 |edition=Revised & Expanded Second|publication-place=England, United Kingdom |publisher=Fab Press |publication-date=February 2018 |isbn=978-1-903254-90-5|p=60|authorlink=Stephen Thrower}}</ref> *''I motorizzati'', directed by Camillo Mastrocinque (1962) *''Son of the Circus'', directed by Sergio Grieco (1963) *''The Masked Man Against the Pirates'', directed by Vertunnio De Angelis (1964) *''How We Got into Trouble with the Army'', directed by Lucio Fulci (1965) *''Assassination in Rome'', directed by Silvio Amadio (1965) *''Operation Goldsinger'', directed by Bruno Corbucci and Giovanni Grimaldi (1965) *''The Dreamer'', directed by Massimo Franciosa (1965) *''Latin Lovers'', directed by Mario Costa (1965) *''Sugar Colt'', directed by Franco Giraldi (1966) *''God Forgives... I Don't!'', directed by Giuseppe Colizzi (1967) *''Catch-22'', directed by Mike Nichols (1970) *''The Last Italian Tango'', directed by Nando Cicero (1974) *''Farfallon'', directed by Riccardo Pazzaglia (1974) *''Dog's Heart'', directed by Alberto Lattuada (1976) *''{{Interlanguage link|Behind Convent Walls|it|Interno di un convento}}'', directed by Walerian Borowczyk (1978) *''The Lady of the Camellias'', directed by Mauro Bolognini (1981) *''Big Deal After 20 Years'', directed by Amanzio Todini (1985) *''Mortacci'', directed by Sergio Citti (1989) *''There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs'', directed by Duccio Tessari (1990) *''Faccione'', directed by Christian De Sica (1991) *''Vietato ai minori'', directed by Maurizio Ponzi (1992) *''Mille bolle blu'', directed by Leone Pompucci (1993) *''Giovani e belli'', directed by Dino Risi (1996) *''Life Is Beautiful'', directed by Roberto Benigni (1997) *''Gallo cedrone'', directed by Carlo Verdone (1998) *''Bagnomaria'', directed by Giorgio Panariello (1999) *''Lightning Strike'', directed by Neri Parenti (2012) * ''Blessed Madness'', directed by Carlo Verdone (2018) * ''Lord of the Ants'', directed by Gianni Amelio (2022)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rovere, Gina }} Category:1936 births Category:Living people Category:Actresses from Rome Category:Italian film actresses Category:Italian stage actresses Category:Italian television actresses Category:21st-century Italian actresses