---
name: "Mimi Aguglia"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mimi-aguglia"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "20 December 1884"
died: "31 July 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T03:00:24.678604+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."
---

# Mimi Aguglia

Actor. Born 20 December 1884 in Catania, Sicily, Italy. Died 31 July 1970.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 20 December 1884, Catania, Sicily, Italy
- **Died:** 31 July 1970
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 70 (1), 1950s 76 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimi_Aguglia, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1771180, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0013405/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89019

## Biography

Mimi Aguglia (21 December 1884 – 31 July 1970) was an Italian actress. Born Girolama Aguglia in Sicily, she began performing on stage as a child alongside her mother, the actress Giuseppina Aguglia, and later toured Italy and Europe as a theatrical performer.

From the 1930s she worked in the United States as a character actress in films, often in supporting roles. Her credits include *The Outlaw* (1943), *Cry of the City* (1948), *The Man Who Cheated Himself* (1950), *The Rose Tattoo* (1955) as Assunta, and *The Brothers Rico* (1957). She also appeared on Broadway and in Italian-language radio. Her daughter, Argentina Brunetti, was also an actress.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Rose Tattoo* (1955), Fi1m 76, as Assunta — [page](https://film.one/film/the-rose-tattoo.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Anchors Aweigh* (1945), Fi1m 70, as Old Lady (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/anchors-aweigh.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *The Brothers Rico* (1957), Actor
- *The Rose Tattoo* (1955), as Assunta — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/the-rose-tattoo.md)
- *When in Rome* (1952), as Rosa
- *Cuban Fireball* (1951), as Señora Martinez
- *The Man Who Cheated Himself* (1950), as Mrs. Capa
- *Deported* (1950), as Teresa Sparducci
- *Right Cross* (1950), as Mom Monterez
- *Black Hand* (1950), as Mrs. Sabballera
- *East Side, West Side* (1949), as Grandma Senta (uncredited)
- *That Midnight Kiss* (1949), as Mamma Donnetti
- *We Were Strangers* (1949), as Mama
- *Cry of the City* (1948), as Mama Roma
- *Captain from Castile* (1947), as Doña Hernandez (uncredited)
- *Carnival in Costa Rica* (1947), as Mama Castro
- *Anchors Aweigh* (1945), as Old Lady (uncredited) — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/anchors-aweigh.md)
- *A Bell for Adano* (1945), as Rosa Tomasino
- *The Outlaw* (1943), as Guadalupe
- *Una viuda romántica* (1933), as Encarna

## Gallery

- ![Mimi Aguglia in 1920](https://film.one/media/person/1235065/gallery-e6b4bd302cd8.jpg) Mimi Aguglia in 1920 — Bain, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Mimi_Aguglia_in_1920.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Mimi Aguglia](https://film.one/media/person/1235065/gallery-067c429504ee.jpg) Mimi Aguglia — film screenshot (Howard Hughes Productions), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Mimi_Aguglia_in_The_Outlaw.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Mimi Aguglia](https://film.one/media/person/1235065/gallery-d16a0c7b9a2c.jpg) Mimi Aguglia — Image via TMDB
- ![Mimi Aguglia](https://film.one/media/person/1235065/gallery-5d0c871884fe.jpg) Mimi Aguglia — Image via TMDB

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