{{Short description|Italian film producer (1941–2020)}} {{Infobox person | name = Grazia Volpi | birth_name = Rosanna Grazia Volpi | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1941|3|29}} | birth_place = Pontedera, Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2020|2|7|1941|3|29}} | death_place = Viareggio, Italy | occupation = Film Producer | spouse = Roberto Perpignani | years_active = 1968-2020 }} '''Grazia Volpi''' (29 March 1941 – 7 February 2020), was an Italian film producer. She was one of the first women in Italy who achieved the position of film producer.
==Biography== She started working in the late 1960s as general organizer and production manager on the set of the Taviani brothers' films.<ref>{{cite web|work=cinemaconigiovani.it|url=http://www.cinemaconigiovani.it/masterclass-con-grazia-volpi/|title=Masterclass con la produttrice Grazia Volpi|accessdate=9 February 2020}}</ref>
Then she became coordinator of "Una Cooperativa Cinematografica", a production company created by the Taviani brothers in 1973. In 1975 she made her debut as a film producer for the Aata cooperative with the films ''Quanto è bello lu murire acciso'' by Ennio Lorenzini and ''The Suspect'' by Francesco Maselli.<ref>{{cite web|work=news.cinecitta.com|url=https://news.cinecitta.com/IT/it-it/news/54/61238/grazia-volpi.aspx|title=Grazia Volpi|date=11 January 2002|accessdate=9 February 2020}}</ref>
In 2012 she won the David di Donatello for the best producer for the film ''Caesar Must Die'', directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani.
===Personal life and death=== She was married to film editor Roberto Perpignani. Volpi died on 7 February 2020, at the age of 78.<ref>{{cite web|work=news.cinecitta.com|url=https://news.cinecitta.com/IT/it-it/news/53/81035/morta-grazia-volpi-produttrice-dei-taviani.aspx|title=Morta Grazia Volpi, produttrice dei Taviani|date=8 February 2020|accessdate=9 February 2020}}</ref>
==Partial filmography== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''Quanto è bello lu murire acciso'' (1975) * ''The Suspect'' (1975) * ''Young Distance'' (1988) * ''The Sun Also Shines at Night'' (1990) * ''Fiorile'' (1993) * ''Seven Sundays'' (1994) * ''State Secret'' (1995) * ''The Elective Affinities'' (1996) * ''You Laugh'' (1998) * ''Rosa and Cornelia'' (2000) * ''The Lark Farm'' (2007) * ''The Father and the Foreigner'' (2011) * ''Caesar Must Die'' (2012) * ''Wondrous Boccaccio'' (2015) {{div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0901766}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Volpi, Grazia}} Category:1941 births Category:2020 deaths Category:David di Donatello winners Category:Italian film producers Category:Italian women film producers