Mita Medici
- Actress
- singer
Patrizia Vistarini (born 20 August 1950), known professionally as Mita Medici and sometimes credited as Patrizia Perini, is an Italian actress and singer.
Biography
Born in Rome as Patrizia Vistarini, daughter of the actor Franco Silva, she was launched in 1965 by winning the "Miss Teenager" pageant.[1] Medici made her film debut in 1966, at 16, in Luciano Salce's How I Learned to Love Women. She is also active in television, in which she hosted shows such as Canzonissima and Sereno variabile and appeared in several TV-series.[2] She was also a singer, active between late 60's and early 80's, and her main success was the song "A ruota libera", which in 1973 ranked 10 in the Italian Hit Parade.[3]
In 1968, she was the subject of the song "Mita, Mita, Mita" by progressive rock group Le Orme.[4][5]
Her elder sister Carla Vistarini is a song lyricist, novelist, playwright and scriptwriter. She's an atheist.[6]
Discography
Studio albums
- …A ruota libera (1973)
- Per una volta (1975)
Singles
- "Questo amore finito così" (1969)
- "Un posto per me/Avventura che nasce" (1970)
- "Un amore/Una storia come tante" (1971)
- "Quei giorni/Se ci sta lui" (1972)
- "Ruota libera/Cosa vuoi che ti dica" (1973)
- "Proprio così/Tremendo" (1973)
- "Scappa scappa/Quei giorni" (1973)
- "Chi sono/Nave" (1975)
- "Uomo/Trucco" (1977)
- "Paletta paletta/Mago tango" (1981)
- "Ma che fiesta" feat. Gianni Dei (1989)
Filmography
Films
Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1966 | How I Learned to Love Women | Annamaria | |
L'estate | Elisabetta Fantoni | ||
1967 | Don't Sting the Mosquito | Vanessa | |
Pronto... c'è una certa Giuliana per te | Giuliana | ||
1968 | Colpo di sole | Cristina Mancinelli | |
1969 | Plagio | Angela | |
1970 | Come ti chiami, amore mio? | Carola | |
1980 | Ombre | Patrizia | |
1992 | Gole ruggenti | Paolo's wife | |
1993 | Cinecittà... Cinecittà | Herself | Cameo appearance |
1997 | L'amico di Wang | Nurse Ambra | |
2003 | Amorfù | Rock poetess | Cameo appearance |
2005 | E se domani | Director Morandi | |
2009 | Feisbum | Doriana | |
2011 | Un milione di giorni | Maria |
Television
Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1970 | Coralba | Deborah Danon | Main role (5 episodes) |
1974 | The White Horse Inn | Ottilie Pesamenole | Television film |
1979 | The Master of Ballantrae | Alison Graeme | Television film |
1985 | Murder of a Moderate Man | Regina | Recurring role (3 episodes) |
1985, 1987 | Aeroporto internazionale | Secretary | 2 episodes |
1989 | Don Tonino | Journalist | Episode: "Il mistero di Villa Gruber" |
1992 | Il cielo non cade mai | Clara Negroni | Television film |
1997–2003, 2013 | Un posto al sole | Marisa Saviani | Recurring role (77 episodes) |
2001 | CentoVetrine | Paola Novelli | Recurring role (5 episodes) |
2006–2008 | Un ciclone in famiglia | Barbara | Main role (14 episodes) |
2008 | Provaci ancora prof! | Martina Maselli | Episode: "La prof della prof" |
Don Matteo | Silveria | Episode: "I segreti degli altri" |
References
- ^ Granzotto, Jacopo (18 February 2010). "Creò Renato Zero e Patty Pravo: il "Piper club" compie 45 anni". Il Giornale (in Italian). Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ^ Lancia, Enrico; Poppi, Roberto, eds. (2003). Le attrici: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Dizionario del cinema italiano (in Italian). Rome: Gremese. ISBN 88-8440-214-X.
- ^ Salvatori, Dario (1989). Storia dell'hit parade (in Italian). Rome: Gremese. ISBN 88-7605-439-1.
- ^ Venturelli, Renato (1998). Nessuno ci può giudicare: il lungo viaggio del cinema musicale 1930-1980 (in Italian). Rome: Fahrenheit 451. ISBN 88-86095-30-9.
- ^ Balzano, Oronzo (2011). Ad gloriam: Le Orme e il beat (in Italian). foreword by Nino Smeraldi; interviews with Aldo Tagliapietra, Claudio Galieti. Cerignola: Enter. ISBN 978-88-905822-4-0.
- ^ Giordano, Lucio (5 April 2024). "Quando ero bambina credevo in Dio, ma poi, a 12 anni, ho perduto la fede". Dipiù (in Italian). No. 13. pp. 78–81.
External links
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- Mita Medici at IMDb
- Mita Medici at Discogs