Lucia Sardo

Lucia Sardo

1952-12-13 Francofonte, Siracusa, Italy 29 Credits

Biography

Lucia Sardo (born 13 December 1952) is an Italian actress. Born Aurora Sardo in Francofonte, Syracuse, Sardo formed at the Teatro di Ventura under Ferruccio Merisi. She made her film debut in the 1992 Aurelio Grimaldi's drama Acla's Descent into Floristella, then she got her first major role two years later, in Grimaldi's The Whores. Her breakout came in 2001, with the role of Felicia, Giuseppe Impastato's mother, in Marco Tullio Giordana's One Hundred Steps; for her performance she was nominat...

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L'amore che ho

L'amore che ho

2025

as Rosa Balistreri

Acting
It Happens in the Best of Families

It Happens in the Best of Families

2024

as Filomena

5.0
Acting

After their father passes away, three siblings reconnect at their mother's remarriage.

Sulla giostra

Sulla giostra

2021

as Ada

5.3
Acting
Magic Show

Magic Show

2019

as Adele

7.0
Acting
Alone With Her Dreams

Alone With Her Dreams

2019

as Nonna Maria

7.7
Acting

Set in the late 1960s, the film explores the issues of immigration, community values and family devotion through the eyes of a young girl, Lucia, who ...

Beate

Beate

2018

as Suor Restituta

6.4
Acting

In the northeast of Italy, the workers of a lingerie factory are about to be fired. Not far away, a handful of nuns, skilled in the art of embroidery ...

Nato a Casal di Principe

Nato a Casal di Principe

2017

5.7
Acting

In the late 1980s, Amedeo Letizia, a young 20 something Italian, leaves his hometown of Casal di Principe to pursue a career in acting in Rome. While ...

The Wait

The Wait

2016

as Landlady Concetta

4.5
Acting

A mafia killer accepts to take the identity of his last victim in order to redeem his past. Two games of chess - one with his victim, the other with h...

Italo

Italo

2015

as Concetta

6.4
Acting

Based on a true story, Italo vividly depicts the life-altering friendship between an extraordinary dog and a lonely child. One day, a good natured str...

Darker Than Midnight

Darker Than Midnight

2014

6.1
Acting

Davide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourteen when he runs away from home. His intuition lead...

Amiche da morire

Amiche da morire

2013

as Madre di Crocetta

6.4
Acting

Gilda has long since moved to a small southern island and earns her living as a prostitute in a context suspended between retrograde traditions and mo...

Scossa

Scossa

2012

as Speranza

Acting

100 years ago, a terrible earthquake, followed by an equally terrible tidal wave, devastated and largely destroyed Messina and Reggio Calabria.

I baci mai dati

I baci mai dati

2011

6.7
Acting
The Sicilian Girl

The Sicilian Girl

2008

as La madre di Rita

6.2
Acting

Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to deno...

7 and 8

7 and 8

2007

as signora La Blasca

6.8
Acting

6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-o...

Il padre delle spose

Il padre delle spose

2006

as Lucia Catalano

4.3
Acting

Riccardo, a southern man of solid principles and good feelings, decides to go and visit his daughter Aurora, who has been living in Barcelona for some...

Salvatore. Questa è la vita

Salvatore. Questa è la vita

2006

as Nonna Maria

7.0
Acting

Salvatore is a young orphan, living in Sicily with his little sister and his grandmother; after loosing his father in a tragic way he quits school and...

Callas & Onassis

Callas & Onassis

2005

as Bruna

7.2
Acting

Maria Callas, one of the most talented opera singers of her time, seemed to have it all. Coming from humble origins, she always felt slighted by her m...

L'amore di Màrja

L'amore di Màrja

2004

as Sicilian grandma

10.0
Acting

In the '70s, young Màrja leads a hippie lifestyle in Finland. During a peace march, she meets Fortunato, a young Sicilian, and falls in love with him....

Lost Love

Lost Love

2003

as Nerina

5.9
Acting

Ettore, a young boy in Sicily in the 50's, is surrounded by women and is always surprised by what is happening around him. In Milan a few years later ...

Ma che colpa abbiamo noi

Ma che colpa abbiamo noi

2003

as Gabriella

6.4
Acting

Seven people in a therapy group are forced to find new ways of coping with their problems when their therapist dies in the middle of a session.

One Hundred Steps

One Hundred Steps

2000

as Felicia Impastato

7.8
Acting

Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps fr...

Malena

Malena

2000

as Second Woman of the Lynching

7.4
Acting

During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.

La stanza dello Scirocco

La stanza dello Scirocco

1998

as Lucia

8.5
Acting
Nerolio

Nerolio

1996

5.5
Acting

This film depicts three episodes in the life of the highly eccentric, unabashedly homosexual Italian filmmaker Per Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini was best k...

The Whores

The Whores

1994

as Milu

5.7
Acting

Orlanda, Liuccia, Milù, Blu Blu and Veronica are five women in Palermo, Sicily, each different from the other. But, along with transvestite Kim and yo...

La ribelle

La ribelle

1993

4.7
Acting

Enza is a beautiful and lively Sicilian teenager who is starting out in life, but due to her naivety, she always ends up getting into trouble. She has...

Acla's Descent into Floristella

Acla's Descent into Floristella

1992

as Aclà's mother

7.0
Acting

Set in Sicily in the 1930's, Aurelio Grimaldi's feature debut chronicles the harsh story of twelve-year-old boy, Aclà, sold into slavery by his destit...

Ultima fermata Mariù

N/A

1.0
Acting

Inspired by Giancarlo Marinelli's novel "Amori in stazione", the film talks about the fate of marginalization in the decay of a small railway station,...