Giuseppina and Giovanni Lollobrigida were the parents of actress Gina Lollobrigida. Both of her parents are no longer in this world.
Gina Lollobrigida’s father, Giovanni Lollobrigida, was born in 1897 but died in 1977. Her mother, Giuseppina Mercuri, was born in 1900 and in 1970 she passed away.
There wasn’t much known about Giuseppina Mercuri and Giovanni Lollobrigida.
Who Was Gina Lollobrigida?
At 95, Gina Lollobrigida died on January 16, 2023. In the 1950s and 1960s, Gina rose to fame as a sex symbol on a global scale.
She has contributed to several films, including “Times Gone By,” “Beauties of the Night,” “Beat the Devil,” “The World’s Most Beautiful Woman,” “Pleasant Nights,” and “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell.”
Following the decline of her cinematic career, Lollobrigida began working as a photojournalist.
Giuliana, Maria, and Fernanda were three sisters, and she also had a brother.
When Lollobrigida was younger, she competed in several beauty pageants while working as a supermodel.
She immediately began to make fleeting cameos in Italian films at a young age, including “Lucia di Lammermoor,” “This Drink of Love,” “Black Eagle,” and “When Love Calls.”
Lollobrigida with Sophia Loren became icons of the earthy sexiness of Italian actresses during the 1950s and 1960s.
Lollobrigida finished her education as an artist and sculptor before starting her career as a well-known beauty queen and model.
She Made Her Screen Debut In 1946
She made her screen debut in 1946’s intervention thriller “The Black Eagle,” playing a small role.
In Europe, she rose to prominence by the beginning of the 1950s.
In John Huston’s “Beat the Devil,” released in 1953, she earned her English-language film debut alongside Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones.
She played Esmerelda in the 1956 production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” which also starred Anthony Quinn as Quasimodo.
She portrayed the Queen of Sheba alongside Yul Brynner’s King Solomon through King Vidor’s 1959 Technicolor epic “Solomon and Sheba.”
Lollobrigida started a new career as a photographer in the 1970s due to a drop in film appearances.
Her most notable performance in 1984 was a recurring role in USA prime-time soap opera “Falcon Crest” in films and on television.
The expected net worth of Gina Lollobrigida at the time of her death was $45 million.
