Dorian Gray (actress)

Dorian Gray (born Maria Luisa Mangini; 2 February 1931 – 15 February 2011) was an Italian actress.

Dorian Gray
Gray in 1958
Born	Maria Luisa Mangini (1931-02-02)2 February 1931 Bolzano, Kingdom of Italy
Died	15 February 2011(2011-02-15) (aged 80) Torcegno, Trentino, Italy
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1951–1965

Biography

Gray made her stage debut in 1950. After five years she left the world of the theater and devoted herself to cinema.

Dorian Gray in Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina (1956)

The role she played most often in films was that of a seductive sexual character. She played the titular "bad girl" in Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina. She also appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni's Il grido. In 1957, she took part in Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini.

Death

On February 15, 2011, Gray committed suicide by gunshot at her home in Torcegno. She was 80 years old; some media, however, reported her age as 75,^[1] since she herself claimed to have been born in 1936.^[2]

Partial filmography

Gray in Io piaccio (1955)

• Accidenti alle tasse!! (1951) - Margot
• The Reluctant Magician (1951)
• Amo un assassino (1951) - Vandina
• Anema e core (1951) - Amica di Cocciaglia
• Sardinian Vendetta (1952) - Columba Porchiddu
• The Queen of Sheba (1952) - Ati
• Poppy (1952) - La guardarobiera
• Io piaccio (1955) - Doriana Paris
• Totò lascia o raddoppia? (1956) - Ellen
• Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina (1956) - Marisa Florian (the 'malafemmina')
• Guaglione (1956) - Nadia Lanti
• Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge (1956) - Valeria
• Le notti di Cabiria (1957) - Jessy
• Il grido (1957) - Virginia
• Domenica è sempre domenica (1958) - Luciana
• Mogli pericolose (1958) - Ornella
• Racconti d'estate (1958) - Dorina
• Vacanze d'inverno (1959) - Carol Field
• Brevi amori a Palma di Majorca (1959) - Hélène
• Le sorprese dell'amore (1959) - Desdemona aka Didì
• Il Mattatore (1960) - Elena
• La regina delle Amazzoni (1960) - Antiope
• Crimen (1960) - Eleonora Franzetti
• Il carro armato dell'8 settembre (1960)
• Mani in alto (1961) - Pupina Micacci
• Gli attendenti (1961) - Lauretta
• The Constant Wife (de) (1962) - Marie-Louise Jörgensen
• Peccati d'estate (1962) - Irene
• The Legion's Last Patrol (1962) - Nora
• Avventura al motel (1963)
• Thrilling (1965) - Veronique (segment "Sadik")
• I criminali della metropoli (1967) - Denise (final film role)