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name: "Maddalena Crippa"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/maddalena-crippa"
fi1m_id: "maddalena-crippa"
imdb_id: "nm0187897"
tmdb_id: 1221628
wikidata_id: "Q3842282"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 September 1957"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:49:45.189805+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."
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# Maddalena Crippa

## Identity

Maddalena Crippa

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/maddalena-crippa
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** maddalena-crippa
- **IMDb ID:** nm0187897
- **TMDB ID:** 1221628
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3842282
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddalena_Crippa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3842282, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0187897/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221628

Actor. Born 4 September 1957 in Besana in Brianza.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 September 1957, Besana in Brianza
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddalena_Crippa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3842282, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0187897/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221628

## Biography

Maddalena Crippa is an Italian film, television and stage actress. She was born on 4 September 1957 in Besana in Brianza, Lombardy. She began acting in amateur theatre as a child and, at the age of seventeen, impressed director Giorgio Strehler during auditions for the Piccolo Teatro drama school in Milan, leading to a role in his 1975 production of Carlo Goldoni's *Il campiello*.

Crippa has maintained a busy theatre career, collaborating with directors including Giancarlo Cobelli, Luca Ronconi and her husband Peter Stein. She has also appeared in films and television series. Her film roles include Giovanna in Francesco Rosi's *Three Brothers* (1981) and Lisa Sole in *No Thanks, Coffee Makes Me Nervous* (1982). She played Lucia Amato in the series *Inspector Rex* (1994) and appeared in *Forgive Us Our Debts* (2018).

In 1981 she received the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in *Three Brothers*. She has a brother, the actor Giovanni Crippa, and has been married to Stein since 1999.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Three Brothers* (1981), Fi1m 77, as Giovanna — [page](https://film.one/film/three-brothers.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

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

- *The Peacock’s Paradise* (2022), as Lucia
- *Edipo Re (Teatro Greco di Siracusa)* (2022), Actor
- *Forgive Us Our Debts* (2018), as Funzionaria
- *In carne e ossa* (2010), as Alice
- *Appuntamento a ora insolita* (2008), as Laura
- *Household Accounts* (2003), as Iole
- *The Salesman* (2002), Actor
- *The Threepenny Opera* (2000), Actor
- *Film* (2000), as Vera
- *Viol@* (1998), as Interviewee
- *Giochi d'equilibrio* (1998), as Francesca (in '97)
- *Inspector Rex* (1994), series, as Lucia Amato
- *Berlin '39* (1993), as Louise
- *Non più di uno* (1990), as Roberta
- *Aurelia* (1987), as Giuditta
- *No Thanks, Coffee Makes Me Nervous* (1982), as Lisa Sole
- *Three Brothers* (1981), as Giovanna — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/three-brothers.md)
- *Così per Gioco* (1979), as Elena
- *Don Zeno - L'uomo di Nomadelfia*, as Contessa Pirelli

## Gallery

- ![Maddalena Crippa](https://film.one/media/person/3923360/gallery-b2891a6a9d32.jpg) Maddalena Crippa — Rei Momo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Maddalena-crippa-08-may-1987.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Maddalena Crippa](https://film.one/media/person/3923360/gallery-73b00a71b3c8.jpg) Maddalena Crippa — Image via TMDB
- ![Maddalena Crippa](https://film.one/media/person/3923360/gallery-53c65b253ab7.jpg) Maddalena Crippa — Image via TMDB

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