---
name: "Teresa Saponangelo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/teresa-saponangelo"
fi1m_id: "teresa-saponangelo"
imdb_id: "nm0764606"
tmdb_id: 116532
wikidata_id: "Q3518353"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "22 October 1973"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T02:27:41.024623+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."
---

# Teresa Saponangelo

## Identity

Teresa Saponangelo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/teresa-saponangelo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** teresa-saponangelo
- **IMDb ID:** nm0764606
- **TMDB ID:** 116532
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3518353
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Saponangelo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3518353, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0764606/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/116532

Actor. Born 22 October 1973 in Taranto.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 22 October 1973, Taranto
- **Also known as:**  特蕾莎·萨班农盖
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Saponangelo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3518353, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0764606/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/116532

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Hand of God*](https://film.one/film/the-hand-of-god.md) (75)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Teresa Saponangelo is an Italian film, television and stage actress. Born in Taranto on 22 October 1973, she grew up in Naples and trained at the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica della Calabria and École Philippe Gaulier in France, after earlier studies at Roma Tre University.

She began her career in theatre in the late 1980s and made her film debut in the mid-1990s. Saponangelo is known for roles in *August Vacation* (1996), *A Whole Life Ahead* (2008), *Come Undone* (2010) and *Black and White* (2008). She received acclaim for her performance as Maria Schisa in Paolo Sorrentino's *The Hand of God* (2021), for which she won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress, a Nastro d'Argento and the Pasinetti Award. Other notable credits include *Il buco in testa* (2020), for which she won another Nastro d'Argento, and recent films and series such as *Birds Flying East* (2024) and *Born for You* (2023).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Hand of God* (2021), Fi1m 75, as Maria Schisa — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hand-of-god.md)

## Complete filmography (47)

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

- *The Greater Good* (2026), as Gudrun
- *Per te* (2025), as Michela
- *Hungry Bird* (2025), as Marta
- *Sara - Woman in the Shadows* (2025), series, as Sara
- *Birds Flying East* (2024), as Elisabetta
- *Winter Lemons* (2023), as Eleonora
- *Born for You* (2023), as Teresa Ranieri
- *I nostri ieri* (2023), as Daisy
- *The General's Men* (2023), series, as Dora Dalla Chiesa
- *Vincenzo Malinconico, avvocato d'insuccesso* (2022), series, as Nives
- *The Hand of God* (2021), as Maria Schisa — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hand-of-god.md)
- *A Hole in the Head* (2020), as Maria Serra
- *Basta un paio di baffi* (2019), as Paola
- *Il bene mio* (2018), Actor
- *Gramigna* (2017), Actor
- *The Stuff of Dreams* (2016), as Maria Campese
- *The Major Fisherman* (2016), as Carla
- *Questo è il mio paese* (2015), series, as Marcella Pozzo
- *Fuori* (2015), as Sara
- *The Lady with the Black Veil* (2015), series, as Maddalena Staineri
- *Annalisa* (2011), as La madre di Natuccio
- *The Black Sheep* (2010), Actor
- *Come Undone* (2010), as Miriam
- *Anti-Mafia Squad* (2009), series, as Carmela Ragno
- *A Whole Life Ahead* (2008), as Actress – Operator
- *The New Squad* (2008), series, as Sovrintendente Alessia Marciano
- *We Want Roses Too* (2008), as Teresa (voice)
- *Trilogy - the Thought, the Look, the Word* (2008), Actor
- *Black and White* (2008), as Esmeralda
- *Ossidiana* (2007), as Maria Palligiano
- *Political Target* (2006), as Maria Amore
- *Political Target* (2006), series, as Maria Amore
- *Oktoberfest* (2005), as Laura
- *Te lo leggo negli occhi* (2004), as Chiara
- *La vita degli altri* (2002), as Luisa
- *Two Friends* (2002), as Maria
- *Tutto l'amore che c'è* (2000), as Maura
- *In principio erano le mutande* (1999), as Imma
- *Sweet Idleness* (1999), as Rosa
- *The Dust of Naples* (1998), as Teresa
- *The Vesuvians* (1997), as (segment "Il diavolo in bottiglia")
- *Le acrobate* (1997), as Giusi
- *Strong Arms* (1997), as Paziente
- *Sacred Silence* (1996), as Anna Maria Pica
- *Isotta* (1996), as Caterina
- *August Vacation* (1996), as Irene Vitiello
- *Man Who Check the Meter* (1995), as Valeria

## Gallery

- ![Teresa Saponangelo](https://film.one/media/person/4230865/gallery-4781080bcd7e.jpg) Teresa Saponangelo — Lega Nerd, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Teresa_Saponangelo_%28Lega_Nerd%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![cast & crew of Porselein (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/4230865/gallery-7682c825ae3d.jpg) cast & crew of Porselein (2020) — Vera de Kok, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Porselein_-_IFFR_2020_%281%29.jpg/1280px-Porselein_-_IFFR_2020_%281%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![cast & crew of Porselein (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/4230865/gallery-8f882c8488e5.jpg) cast & crew of Porselein (2020) — Vera de Kok, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Porselein_-_IFFR_2020_%2810%29.jpg/1280px-Porselein_-_IFFR_2020_%2810%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![cast & crew of Porselein (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/4230865/gallery-f2f157c9989d.jpg) cast & crew of Porselein (2020) — Vera de Kok, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Porselein_-_IFFR_2020_%2811%29.jpg/1280px-Porselein_-_IFFR_2020_%2811%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Teresa Saponangelo promoting the movie "Porselein" at the IFFR 2020](https://film.one/media/person/4230865/gallery-544c54e565e0.jpg) Teresa Saponangelo promoting the movie "Porselein" at the IFFR 2020 — Vera de Kok, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Porselein_-_IFFR_2020_%2812%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![cast & crew of Porselein (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/4230865/gallery-20bde7af4149.jpg) cast & crew of Porselein (2020) — Vera de Kok, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Porselein_-_IFFR_2020_%282%29.jpg/1280px-Porselein_-_IFFR_2020_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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