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Greta Scacchi

Acting

Born February 18, 1960 · Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Also known as Greta Scaachi · Γκρέτα Σκάκι · Гре́та Ска́кки

Biography

Greta Scacchi OMRI (born 18 February 1960) is an Italian-Australian actress. She is best known for her roles in the films White Mischief (1987), Presumed Innocent (1990), The Player (1992), Emma (1996), and Looking for Alibrandi (2000). Her first leading role, in Heat and Dust (1983), earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Newcomer to Film. For her portrayal of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna of Russia in the television film, Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996), she won a Primetime Emmy Award and earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 2006, Scacchi received a second Emmy nomination for her role in the television film Broken Trail, and earned her first Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Description above from the Wikipedia article Greta Scacchi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

  • Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie · 1996

Filmography50+ titles

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989as Mrs. Burton-Cox

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004as Tuppence

Merchant Ivory

2023as Self

Daniel Deronda

2002as Lydia Glasher

War & Peace

2016as Natalya Rostova

He Ain't Heavy

2024as Bev

A.D. The Bible Continues

2015as Mother Mary

The Terror

2018as Lady Jane Franklin

The Red Violin

1998as Victoria Byrd (Oxford)

The Odyssey

1997as Penelope

The Player

1992as June Gudmundsdottir

Bodies

2023as The Lady

Amanda

2018as Alison

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King

2006as Dr. Katie Arlen

Hindenburg: The Last Flight

as Helen van Zandt

Broken Trail

as Nola Johns

The Girl in the Fog

2017as Beatrice Leman

Presumed Innocent

1990as Carolyn Polhemus

Operation Finale

2018as Vera Eichmann

Dead on Time

1983

Bergerac

1981as Annie

Emma

1996as Mrs. Weston

The Royal Nanny

2022as Ms. Juliet Lansbury

The Browning Version

1994as Laura Crocker-Harris

Defense of the Realm

1985as Nina Beckman

Head Full of Honey

2018as Abbess

Flightplan

2005as Therapist

Brideshead Revisited

2008as Cara

Beyond the Sea

2004as Mary Duvan

Festival in Cannes

2001as Alice Palmer

Cosi

1996as Mental Patient (uncredited)

Miss Austen Regrets

2008as Cassandra Austen

Shattered

1991as Judith Merrick

Darby and Joan

2022as Joan Kirkhope

Heat and Dust

1983as Olivia Rivers

Waiting for the Barbarians

2019as Mai

Run Rabbit Run

2023as Joan

The Serpent's Kiss

1997as Juliana

Camille

1984as Marguerite Gautier

Shepherd

2021as Glenys Black

The Coca-Cola Kid

1985as Terri

Palm Beach

2019as Charlotte

The White King

2016as General Meade

Turtle Beach

1992as Judith

North v South

2015as Mrs Singer

The Falling

2014as Miss Edith Mantel

Jefferson in Paris

1995as Maria Cosway

Love & Rage

2000as Agnes MacDonnell

Fires Within

1991as Isabel

Hidden Love

2007as D.ssa Dubois