Greta Scacchi (born 18 February 1960) is an
English actress.
Early life
Scacchi was born
Greta Gracco in
Milan, Italy on February 18, 1960, the daughter of Luca Scacchi Gracco, an Italian art dealer and painter, and Pamela Carsaniga, an English dancer and antiques dealer.
[Greta Scacchi Biography (1960-)][Greta Scacchi | | Guardian Unlimited Film] Scacchi's parents divorced when she was four, and her mother returned to her native England with Greta and her two older brothers, first to
London, then to
Haywards Heath,
West Sussex.
In 1975, after her mother's remarriage to Giovanni Carsinga,
[Greta Scacchi Biography - Yahoo! Movies] the family settled in
Adelaide, Australia.
Career
In 1977, Scacchi returned to England to pursue an acting career, studying at the
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, with
Miranda Richardson and
Amanda Redman. In 1982, she made her film debut in the German movie
Das Zweite Gesicht (
The Second Face) and gave versatile performances in films such as
Heat and Dust (1983),
The Ebony Tower (1984),
The Coca Cola Kid (1985),
White Mischief (1987),
Presumed Innocent (1990),
The Player (1992) and
Country Life (1994). She turned down the role of Catherine Trammell in
Basic Instinct (1992).
[Bryce Hallett, Her world's a stage, Sydney Morning Herald, Metropolitan, 10 February 2001, p.3]
