Biography

Maria Cristina Mastrangeli is an Italian French actress. She start her career as a dancer in the '80, in the Italian famous television-show "Pop Corn". 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 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. From 1998 to 2024, she worked intensively in France with Octogone Laboratoire, a theater company dedicated to contemporary drama. For Octogone, she performed, directed, and produced more than ten shows over a fifteen-year period, also participating in several European productions. Between 2016 and 2024, she toured France with her stand-up theater conference, How to Write a Successful (Auto)biography, Incidentally, We'll Talk About Feminism, which tells the story of Italian feminism in the 1970s, seen through the eyes of a young girl clinging to her militant mother's skirts. In film, she has been directed by Giuseppe Piccioni, Marco Risi, Silvio Soldini, Susanna Nicchiarelli, Claude Chabrol, Francis Girod... She also dabbles in genre films and has been called upon several times by director Luigi Cozzi (aka Lewis Coates) after their first collaboration on Paganini Horror (1991). In August 2025, Tuer au nom de Dieu, a television movie by Hugues Nancy, aired on France2, where she plays Catherine de' Medici. From March 2025 to January 2026, she has appeared in the role of Agata Rolando in the historic soap opera Un posto al sole. In 2026, she worked in film with Victoria Musiedlak's L'Incident and Arash Abbasi's Il prezzo.
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