Dina De Laurentiis
Actress

Dina De Laurentiis Net Worth

Dina De Laurentiis was born on August 8, 1919 and is an actress known for her roles in U-571 (2000), Attraction and Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire (2017). She has been in the entertainment industry for over a century and continues to be a successful actress.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress
Birth Day August 08, 1919
Age 101 YEARS OLD
Died On 10 November 2010(2010-11-10) (aged 91)\nBeverly Hills, California, U.S.
Birth Sign Libra
Resting place Cimitero Comunale Torre Annunziata
Occupation film producer
Years active 1938–2010
Spouse(s) Silvana Mangano (m.1949-div.1988; 4 children) Martha Schumacher (m.1990–2010; his death, 2 children)

💰 Net worth

Dina De Laurentiis, a popular actress, was born in 1919 and is well-known for her remarkable performances throughout her career. As of 2024, her net worth is estimated to be in the range of $100K to $1M. With her talent and dedication to her craft, De Laurentiis has undoubtedly earned success and recognition in the entertainment industry. Despite facing challenges and changes over the years, she has managed to establish a significant financial standing, further adding to her illustrious legacy in acting.

Biography/Timeline

1937

De Laurentiis was born at Torre Annunziata in the province of Naples, and grew up selling spaghetti made by his father's pasta factory. He started his studies at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome in the years 1937–1938 then interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War.

1940

Following his first movie, L'ultimo Combattimento (1940), Laurentiis produced nearly 150 films during the next seven decades. In 1946 his company, the Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica, moved into production. In the early years, De Laurentiis produced Italian neorealist films such as Bitter Rice (1949) and the Fellini classics La Strada (1954) and Nights of Cabiria (1956), often in collaboration with Producer Carlo Ponti. In the 1960s, Laurentiis built his own studio facilities, although these financially collapsed during the 1970s. During this period, though, De Laurentiis produced such films as Barabbas (1961), a Christian religious epic; The Bible: In the Beginning (1966), Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die, an imitation James Bond film; Navajo Joe (1966), a spaghetti western; Anzio (1968), a World War II film; Barbarella (1968) and Danger: Diabolik (1968), both successful comic book adaptations; and The Valachi Papers (1972), made to coincide with the popularity of The Godfather.

1949

His brief first marriage in Italy was annulled. In 1949, De Laurentiis married Actress Silvana Mangano, with whom he had four children: Veronica; Raffaella, who is also a film producer; Federico, another Producer who died in a plane crash in 1981 (Dino's movie Dune is dedicated to him); and Francesca. De Laurentiis and Mangano divorced in 1988; she died in 1989. In 1990, he married Martha Schumacher, who produced many of his films since 1985, and with whom he had two daughters, Carolyna and Dina. One of his grandchildren is Giada De Laurentiis, host of Everyday Italian, Behind the Bash, Giada at Home, and Giada's Weekend Getaways on Food Network. He was the younger brother of Luigi De Laurentiis, who became a film Producer after Dino did, and uncle of Aurelio De Laurentiis, also a Producer and the chairman of S.S.C. Napoli football club.

1958

In 1958, he won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film for producing La Strada, back when producers and Directors would win the award instead of the country it was made in.

1972

De Laurentiis made a number of successful and acclaimed films, including The Scientific Cardplayer (1972), Serpico (1973), Death Wish (1974), Mandingo (1975), Three Days of the Condor (1975), The Shootist (1976), Drum (1976), Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg (1977), Ragtime (1981), Conan the Barbarian (1982), Blue Velvet (1986) and Breakdown (1997). De Laurentiis' name became well known through the 1976 King Kong remake, which was a commercial hit; Lipstick (1976), a rape and revenge drama; Orca (1977), a killer whale film; The White Buffalo (1977), a western; the disaster movie Hurricane (1979); the remake of Flash Gordon (1980); David Lynch's Dune (1984); and King Kong Lives (1986). De Laurentiis also made several adaptations of Stephen King's works, including The Dead Zone (1983), Cat's Eye (1985), Silver Bullet (1985), and Maximum Overdrive (1986). De Laurentiis's company was involved with the horror sequels Halloween II (1981), Evil Dead II (1987) and Army of Darkness (1992).

1976

De Laurentiis relocated to the US in 1976, and became an American citizen in 1986. In the 1980s he had his own studio, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG), based in Wilmington, North Carolina. The building of the studio made Wilmington a center of film and television production.

1980

In the 1980s, de Laurentiis owned and operated DDL Foodshow, a specialty retailer with two gourmet Italian markets in New York City and Los Angeles.

1986

De Laurentiis also produced the first Hannibal Lecter film, Manhunter (1986), an adaptation of the Thomas Harris novel Red Dragon. He passed on adapting the novels' sequel, The Silence of the Lambs (1991), but produced the two follow-ups, Hannibal (2001) and Red Dragon (2002), a re-adaptation of the novel. He also produced the prequel Hannibal Rising (2007), which tells the story of how Hannibal becomes a serial killer.

2001

In 2001, he received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

2010

De Laurentiis died on 10 November 2010 at his residence in Beverly Hills at the age of 91.

2012

In 2012, he received the America Award of the Italy-USA Foundation (in memory).

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