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About Alessandra Mussolini
● plays in several films sometimes next to Sophia
● conducts with Pippo Baudo TV show Domenica in (1981-1982)
● records an album called Amore (1982)
● makes the cover of Italian Playboy and poses nude (1983)
She has been an activist politician since her election in 1992 in Naples and was part of the right wing National Party until 2003.
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She is an Italian politician, the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, and previously an actress and model. She is the leader and founder of the national conservative political party Social Action; From 2004 until 2008, Mussolini also served as Member of the European Parliament, and has since been a member of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Italian Parliament.
Some of Mussolini's noted stances are in regards to social views on women's and children's rights and role within both the family unit and society in general.
Personal life:
Alessandra Mussolini was born in Rome, the daughter of Romano Mussolini, the fourth son of the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, and Anna Maria Villani Scicolone (born 11 May 1938, Rome). The actress Sophia Loren is her maternal aunt.
From 1976 to 1980 she went to high school at the American Overseas School of Rome. She graduated in 1986 from Università di Rimini, where she got her Master of Arts in film management.
She married customs police officer Mauro Floriani on 28 October 1989. Together they have three children, Caterina, Clarissa, and Romano – the latter named after his grandfather. Later, the children have adopted their mother's surname, but she went through a complex legal process to allow them to do so. She has since campaigned for Italian law to be changed to allow all children to take their mother's last name if they wish so.
Entertainment career:
Mussolini was taken under the wing of her aunt Sophia Loren for a while and started a career as an actress in the Italian language film industry during the 1970s. A Special Day (1977), in which she had a minor role as "Maria Luisa", won an American Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
During 1982, Mussolini released a pop music album of romantic songs under the title Amore on Alfa Records, the album was only released in Japan and has since become somewhat of a collectors item. Mussolini also appeared as a glamour model, including on the cover of two European editions of Playboy, in Italy (August 1983) and Germany (November 1983). "When you are an actress, you are dealing with the body. Every actress does topless and stuff like this; you have to.", she has said.
Mussolini continued as an actress into the 1980s. Some of the films she featured in were made for Italian television, however she still acted in standard cinematic films, such as The Assisi Underground where she played a nun, the movie focused on the Roman Catholic Church rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943. She starred in her final film in 1990 and then left the film industry to continue studying after a producer asked her to change her name.
Political career:
In 1992, she was elected to parliament in a Naples constituency as a member of the neofascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI). She was favorable to the idea of an alliance between MSI and Forza Italia with a view to the elections of 1994, but she opposed the liquidation of the MSI and the creation of the new National Alliance.
She later was a candidate for the post of mayor of Naples, but was defeated by Antonio Bassolino. Her relations with Gianfranco Fini, leader of the Alleanza Nazionale, never were very good, she announced; she then withdrew later, her resignation due to differences with him at least once. She unsuccessfully challenged him for leadership of the party when he withdrew support for Benito Mussolini in a television interview in January 2002.
Mussolini suddenly left National Alliance on 28 November 2003, following the visit of party leader and the Deputy Prime Minister Gianfranco Fini to Israel, where he described fascism as "the absolute evil" as he apologised for Italy's role as an Axis Power during the Second World War. Mussolini however defended the right of Israel to exist and declared that the world "should beg forgiveness of Israel".
Following her resignation, Mussolini formed her Social Action party, originally named "Freedom of Action", and organized a far right coalition named Social Alternative. That was a surprising move, as Mussolini, during her political career, had always taken progressive stances on many issues, including abortion, artificial insemination, gay rights and civil unions. She has been an outspoken "feminist" and has been described by conservative commentators as a "socialist" and a "left-winger".
Filmography:
* Bianco, rosso e... (1972)
* A Special Day (1977)
* Il Caso Pupetta Maresca (1982) (TV film), with Alessandra Mussolini as Pupetta Maresca
* Il Tassinaro (1983)
* Qualcosa di biondo (1984)
* The Assisi Underground (1985)
* Ferragosto O.K. (1986) (TV film)
* Noi uomini duri (1987)
* Vincere per vincere (1988) (TV film)
* Sabato, domenica e lunedì (1990) (TV film)
* Ha-Derech L'Ein Harod (1990)
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandra_Mussolini
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Alessandra Mussolini's Timeline
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December 30, 1962
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Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy
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