---
name: "Clara Calamai"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/clara-calamai"
fi1m_id: "clara-calamai"
imdb_id: "nm0129278"
tmdb_id: 42407
wikidata_id: "Q450043"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "7 September 1909"
died: "21 September 1998"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T06:35:33.316178+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Clara Calamai

## Identity

Clara Calamai

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/clara-calamai
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** clara-calamai
- **IMDb ID:** nm0129278
- **TMDB ID:** 42407
- **Wikidata ID:** Q450043
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Calamai, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q450043, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0129278/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/42407

Actor. Born 7 September 1909 in Prato, Tuscany, Italy. Died 21 September 1998.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 7 September 1909, Prato, Tuscany, Italy
- **Died:** 21 September 1998
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Calamai, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q450043, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0129278/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/42407

## Biography

Clara Calamai was an Italian actress. She was born on 7 September 1909 in Prato, Tuscany, and died on 21 September 1998 in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna.

She made her screen debut in the 1938 film *Pietro Micca*. Calamai is best known for her role as Giovanna Bragana in Luchino Visconti's *Ossessione* (1943). She later appeared in *L'adultera* (1946), for which she received the Nastro d'Argento for best actress, *Le notti bianche* (1957), *Le streghe* (1967) and *Profondo rosso* (1975).

In 1945 she married the explorer and filmmaker Leonardo Bonzi; the marriage was annulled in 1959.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Obsession* (1943), Fi1m 82, as Giovanna Bragana — [page](https://film.one/film/obsession-1943.md)

## Complete filmography (46)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti* (1977), as Ginevra (archive footage)
- *La peccatrice* (1975), as Madre di Michele
- *Deep Red* (1975), as Marta
- *The Witches* (1967), as Ex-Actress (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
- *Aphrodite, Goddess of Love* (1958), as Stenele
- *White Nights* (1957), as La Prostituta
- *Romanticismo* (1949), as Giuditta Ansperti
- *Sicilian Uprising* (1949), as Elena Di Caltabellotta
- *Lovers Without Love* (1948), as Elena Leonardi
- *Cuando los ángeles duermen* (1947), as Elena
- *Ultimo amore* (1947), as Maria
- *Il Tiranno di Padova* (1946), as Tisbe
- *The Adulteress* (1946), as Velca
- *Il mondo vuole così* (1946), as Carla
- *Two Anonymous Letters* (1945), as Gina
- *La resa di Titì* (1945), as Paola De Marchi
- *Vivere ancora* (1945), Actor
- *The Materassi Sisters* (1944), Actor
- *Addio, amore!* (1943), as Laura Acquaviva
- *Una piccola moglie* (1943), as Isa
- *Enrico IV* (1943), as Matilde Spina / Frida
- *Obsession* (1943), as Giovanna Bragana — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/obsession-1943.md)
- *Le vie del cuore* (1942), as Baronessa Emilia Carpineti
- *La guardia del corpo* (1942), as Adriana
- *La regina di Navarra* (1942), Actor
- *The Jester's Supper* (1942), as Ginevra
- *The Adventuress from the Floor Above* (1941), as Biancamaria Rossi
- *I pirati della Malesia* (1941), as Ada
- *Thrill* (1941), as Federica Usticky
- *I mariti* (1941), as Amelia Gioiosi
- *Luce nelle tenebre* (1941), as Clara Ferri
- *Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto* (1941), as Madonna Giaconella
- *Il re del circo* (1941), as Bianca
- *Manovre d'amore* (1940), as Agnese, l'istitutrice
- *Capitan Fracassa* (1940), as Iolanda
- *Boccaccio* (1940), as Giannina, falso Boccaccio
- *Le sorprese del vagone letto* (1940), as La canzonettista
- *Addio, giovinezza!* (1940), as Elena
- *L'eredità in corsa* (1939), as Lili
- *Il socio invisibile* (1939), as Moglie di Prado
- *Il fornaretto di Venezia* (1939), as Olimpia Zeno
- *I, His Father* (1939), as Renata
- *Ettore Fieramosca* (1938), as Fulvia
- *Hanno rapito un uomo* (1938), Actor
- *Il destino in tasca* (1938), Actor
- *Pietro Micca* (1938), as La contessa de Lassere

## Gallery

- ![Clara Calamai in una scena del film italiano Ossessione (1943)](https://film.one/media/person/3859560/gallery-1363d03797c8.png) Clara Calamai in una scena del film italiano Ossessione (1943) — Luchino Visconti (director), Aldo Tonti, Domenico Scala (cinematographers), Industrie Cinematografiche Italiane (production), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Ossessione_%281943%29_Clara_Calamai.png/1280px-Ossessione_%281943%29_Clara_Calamai.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Clara Calamai in una scena del film italiano La cena delle beffe (1942).](https://film.one/media/person/3859560/gallery-0cc4d7e738e5.png) Clara Calamai in una scena del film italiano La cena delle beffe (1942). — Alessandro Blasetti (director), Mario Craveri (cinematographer), Cines (production), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/La_cena_delle_beffe_%281942%29_Clara_Calamai_%282%29.png/1280px-La_cena_delle_beffe_%281942%29_Clara_Calamai_%282%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Clara Calamai in una scena del film italiano Ossessione (1943)](https://film.one/media/person/3859560/gallery-44cfcd49e082.png) Clara Calamai in una scena del film italiano Ossessione (1943) — Luchino Visconti (director), Aldo Tonti, Domenico Scala (cinematographers), Industrie Cinematografiche Italiane (production), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Ossessione_%281943%29_Clara_Calamai_%283%29.png/1280px-Ossessione_%281943%29_Clara_Calamai_%283%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Clara Calamai in "Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto" (Alessandrini, 1941) (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/3859560/gallery-6f72baae6170.jpg) Clara Calamai in "Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto" (Alessandrini, 1941) (2016) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Caravagg_calamai.jpg/1280px-Caravagg_calamai.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Clara Calamai](https://film.one/media/person/3859560/gallery-4d0aee0c033d.jpg) Clara Calamai — Image via TMDB
- ![Clara Calamai in una scena del film italiano Addio giovinezza! (1940)](https://film.one/media/person/3859560/gallery-4c5b56480155.png) Clara Calamai in una scena del film italiano Addio giovinezza! (1940) — Film diretto da Ferdinando Maria Poggioli e prodotto da ICI - SAFIC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Addio_giovinezza%21_%28film_1940%29_Clara_Calamai.png/1280px-Addio_giovinezza%21_%28film_1940%29_Clara_Calamai.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Clara Calamai in una scena del film italiano Io, suo padre (1939)](https://film.one/media/person/3859560/gallery-a76ef27cfa39.png) Clara Calamai in una scena del film italiano Io, suo padre (1939) — Mario Bonnard (director), Scalera Film (production), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Io%2C_suo_padre_%281939%29_Clara_Calamai_-_telefono_bianco.png/1280px-Io%2C_suo_padre_%281939%29_Clara_Calamai_-_telefono_bianco.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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