Chiara Moretti | |
Birth Place: | Siena, Italy |
Death Place: | Florence, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Occupation: | Actress |
Chiara Moretti (8 August 1955 – 16 May 2023) was an Italian actress.
Born in Siena, Moretti started her acting career in the second half of the 1970s, appearing alongside Roberto Benigni in a series of projects, including the films Berlinguer, I Love You by Giuseppe Bertolucci and in Seeking Asylum by Marco Ferreri, where she played the main female character Irma. Later she had other significant roles in the films and ; she made her last appearance in Bertolucci's The Strangeness of Life (1987).
Leaving acting, she devoted herself to politics as a member of the National Alliance and later of Brothers of Italy.[1] She was the councillor of District 5 of the Municipality of Florence, from 2004 to 2014.
Moretti died in May 2023, in Florence, at the age of 67.[2]