{{Short description|Italian actress (1904–2000)}} {{Infobox person | image = Pina cei.jpg | caption = Cei in 1969 | name = Pina Cei | birth_date = 13 June 1904 | birth_place = San Juan, Puerto Rico | death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|2|1|1904|6|13|df=yes}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | other_names = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1934–1995 }}
'''Pina Cei''' (born '''Giuseppina Casini'''; 13 June 1904 – 1 February 2000) was an Italian stage, film and television actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1933 to 1995.
== Life and career == The daughter of the stage actress Luisa Cei, she made her theatrical debut in 1922, in the company of Raffaele Niccoli.<ref name=ATTRICI>{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano, Le Attrici|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=888440214X}}</ref> She later worked in several high-profile stage companies, including Emma Gramatica's and Ruggero Ruggeri's, until 1942, when she founded her own stage company.<ref name="ATTRICI"/> She made her film debut in 1933, in ''Villafranca'', in which she is credited as '''Pia Torriani''' (from her husband's surname).<ref name="ATTRICI"/> Her younger sister Dory was also an actress.<ref name="ATTRICI"/>
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1934|| ''Villafranca'' || principessa Clotilde di Savoia || |- |1935|| ''Maestro Landi'' || Sua moglie || |- |1958|| ''Camping'' || Mother of Nino and Valeria || |- |1958|| ''La Gioconda'' || || |- |1968|| ''Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare'' || || |- |1973|| ''Love and Anarchy'' || Madame Aïda || |- |1974|| ''Nipoti miei diletti'' || Elisabetta's housekeeper || |- |1976|| ''The Mistress Is Served'' || Countess Fanny || |- |1977|| ''Cara sposa'' || Elvira || |- |1982|| ''La Traviata'' || Annina || |- |1983|| ''A Joke of Destiny'' || Donna Sofia || |- |1985|| ''Scandalous Gilda'' || Hilda || |- |1986|| ''Open Sesame'' || || TV series |- |1987|| ''Dark Eyes'' || Elisa's Mother || |- |1990|| ''Tre colonne in cronaca'' || Margherita || |- |1991|| ''The Party's Over'' || Nonna Zaira || |- |1994|| ''Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima'' || || |- |1994|| ''OcchioPinocchio'' || Colomba || |}
== References == {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|147870}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cei, Pina}} Category:1904 births Category:2000 deaths Category:Actresses from San Juan, Puerto Rico Category:Italian film actresses Category:Italian television actresses Category:Italian stage actresses Category:20th-century Italian actresses