Maria Cristina Mastrangeli

Birthday: May 27, 1963 in Rome, Lazio, Italy

Maria Cristina Mastrangeli is an Italian actress working for cinema and theater. She lives and works both in Paris and Rome. She start her career as a dancer in the '80, in the Italian famous tel ...Show More

Maria Cristina Mastrangeli is an Italian actress working for cinema and theater. She lives and works both in Paris and Rome. She start her career as a dancer in the '80, in the Italian famous television-show "Pop Corn". She studies "Performing Art's History and Critic" at the La Sapienza University of Rome and "Cinema and Audiovisual" at the Sorbonne University in Paris. She studies performing arts at the Fersen's School in Rome and has a degree at the Regional Performing Art Academy of Rome. But her most important training as an actress is with Actors Studio's teachers: from 1985 to 1990 at the Duse Studio of Rome with Francesca de Sapio, then with Susan Strasberg and Geraldine Baron. In 1996, she is invited herself to teach Method Acting at the EICTV, National Cinema's School of Cuba. She has had lead characters at the Teatro Argentina, National Theater of Rome from 1986 to 1991. Here she works with: Nikita Michalkov, Marcello Mastroianni, Maurizio Scaparro and Roberto Guicciardini. In 2015 she plays in French, Pier Paolo Pasolini's monologue "A small fish" directed by Gerardo Maffei at the Théâtre de Belleville, Paris. In 2017 she stages "Pinocchio's tears" by Belgian playwright Pietro Pizzuti at the Avignon Off Festival and play in "Tuffatori" directed by Anna Romano in Italy for the European project EU collective plays!. Always for stage she's currently working on "How to write a successful (auto)biography, eventually we will have some small talk about Feminism", a theatrical conference, with a stand-up touch, on Feminism. Hide