Dorian Gray
Known for ActingBorn 1928-02-02 — died 2011-02-15Bolzano, Italy
Maria Luisa Mangini (2 February 1928 – 15 February 2011), better known as Dorian Gray, was an Italian actress.
Gray made her stage debut in 1950. After five years she left the theater world and devoted herself to the cinema.
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The role she played most often in films was that of a seductive sex kitten. 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 The Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini.
On February 15, 2011, Gray committed suicide by gunshot at her home in Torcegno. She was 83 years old; however, some media reported her age as 75, since she claimed to have been born in 1936.
Known for
Nights of Cabiria
1957 · as Jessy
Peccati d'estate
1962 · as Irene
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
1960 · as Eleonora Franzetti
Guaglione
1956 · as Nadia Lanti
Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
1956 · as Marisa Florian
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977 · as Self - Antiope (archive footage)
Winter Holidays
1959 · as Carol Field
Love and Larceny
1960 · as Elena
Il Grido
1957 · as Virginia
Commando
1962 · as Nora
Love on the Riviera
1958 · as Dorina
Dangerous Women
1958 · as Ornella
Poppy
1952
Colossus and the Amazon Queen
1960 · as Antiope
Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
1956 · as Valeria
Totò Double or Nothing?
1956 · as Hélène
Vacations in Majorca
1959 · as Hélène
Vendetta... sarda
1952 · as Columba Porchiddu