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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

L'amore che ho
2025
as Rosa Balistreri

It Happens in the Best of Families
2024
as Filomena
After their father passes away, three siblings reconnect at their mother's remarriage.

Sulla giostra
2021
as Ada

Magic Show
2019
as Adele

Alone With Her Dreams
2019
as Nonna Maria
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
2018
as Suor Restituta
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
2017
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
2016
as Landlady Concetta
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
2015
as Concetta
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
2014
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
2013
as Madre di Crocetta
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
2012
as Speranza
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
2011

The Sicilian Girl
2008
as La madre di Rita
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
2007
as signora La Blasca
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
2006
as Lucia Catalano
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
2006
as Nonna Maria
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
2005
as Bruna
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
2004
as Sicilian grandma
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
2003
as Nerina
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
2003
as Gabriella
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
2000
as Felicia Impastato
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
2000
as Second Woman of the Lynching
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
1998
as Lucia

Nerolio
1996
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
1994
as Milu
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
1993
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
1992
as Aclà's mother
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
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,...