Trivia

Dubbing voice of Anna Maria Alberghetti in the Italian post-synchronized version of Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957) (10.000 camere da letto).

Active as voice dubber in the late 1950s and 1960s.

She greatly admires her The Best of Youth (2003) co-star, Luigi Lo Cascio.

Best known on the screen for her roles in Accattone by Pier Paolo Pasolini (in which she played the role of the prostitute Amore) and Prima della rivoluzione by Bernardo Bertolucci.

Made her stage debut in 1951 in Plautus' Miles 'Gloriosus' with the Bolzano company. Achieved her first personal success with a part in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, directed by Luchino Visconti,.

A prolific stage actress, she has appeared in plays by Achard, Pirandello, Genet and Pinter. She has starred in George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan (1984) and Samuel Beckett's Happy Days (1985, 2010).

In 2015 she was the protagonist of AA professione attrice , a documentary by Rocco Talucci , dedicated to her cinematographic and theatrical production, and in 2023 of an episode of the television programme Le ragazze , where she talked about her childhood, her debut and her theatrical and cinematographic success.

Adriana Asti died in her sleep, in the Villa Salaria clinic where she had been hospitalized for a few days. The funeral took place in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Montesanto, also known as the Church of the Artists, in Piazza del Popolo in Rome.

Her first marriage was to the painter Fabio Mauri , from whom she later divorced. She later had a relationship with the director Bernardo Bertolucci . She finally married another director, Giorgio Ferrara -brother of Giuliano , who was much younger than her-with whom she lived in Rome; she was widowed in 2023.

She made her theatrical debut in 1951 in Plautus' Miles Gloriosus with the Bolzano stock company, and achieved her first success with a part in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, directed by Luchino Visconti, who later cast her in his films Rocco and His Brothers and Ludwig.

She won the SIAE prize in June 1990, and the Duse prize in December 1993.

In July 2000, she starred and played, in French, Ferdinando , a classic of 1980s drama, written by Annibale Ruccello.

In 1999, she wrote and starred in Alcohol, alongside Franca Valeri.

Adriana Asti was an Italian stage, film and voice actress.

She appeared in Dino Risi's short film Buio in sala, shot in 1948.

Not to be confused with actress Adelaide Aste.