Giusi Merli

Acting

Giusi Merli

Born 1943-03-26 · Pisa, Tuscany, Italy

Giusi (Giuseppina) Merli (born 26 March 1943 in Pisa, Italy) is an Italian theatre and movie actress. She performed in more than 200 theatrical and film productions. Merli is best known for the role of Sister Maria (inspired by Mother Teresa) in The Great Beauty by Paolo Sorrentino.

Acting credits

Dune: Part Two poster
8.1

Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, Paul endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.

Dune: Part Two

2024

The Great Beauty poster
7.5

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

The Great Beauty

2013

Rando poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rando

2025

Like Crazy poster
7.4

Two mental patients with opposite personalities ditch their Tuscan hospital and embark on an unpredictable exploration of the real world.

Like Crazy

2016

Love Wedding Repeat poster
5.7

While trying to make his sister's wedding day go smoothly, Jack finds himself juggling an angry ex-girlfriend, an uninvited guest with a secret, a misplaced sleep sedative, and the girl that got away in alternate versions of the same day.

Love Wedding Repeat

2020

A Trip to Teulada poster
NR

Assunta is struck down by a sudden illness and is rescued by her neighbor, Fatima. The old woman survives but on awakening she discovers that the illness has brought back her past, scarred by the creation of the largest military proving ground in Europe which caused the end of her small community.

A Trip to Teulada

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Se venisse anche l’inferno

2026

Ti ricordi di me? poster
6.6

Sharing the same psychologist, kleptomaniac Roberto, who writes stories a bit too realistic and scary for kids, and a narcoleptic Beatrice, who documents everything in her life, begin to think that love could be the cure for their problems. But nothing comes easy to either of them, and, just like in one of Roberto's stories, the happy ending really needs to be sought after. Will they find their own?

Ti ricordi di me?

2014

Dreams Live in Trees poster
7.5

Inspired by true events which took place in 1978 when Italy became the first country in the world to abolish mental asylums. Upon a closure of an asylum in Florence Anja returns home into the care of her brother Ettore and his wife Lisa. With the help and a great sensitivity from her newly appointed psychiatrist Anja slowly starts to adapt to her new life beyond the asylum. She meets Libero, a local man who delivers vegetables to people in the village. Libero, just like Anja, suffers from mental disorder and learning disabilities. Anja and Libero fall in love. They conduct their relationship under the protection of a secret shack in the middle of the forest. An unexpected event brings morality into question.

Dreams Live in Trees

2023

Stories from the Chestnut Woods poster
6.2

In the mid-20th century, in a forested valley between Italy and Yugoslavia, a stingy widower befriends a young woman and helps her depart across the ocean to find there a better life. A chance encounter gives rise to a dreamy parable on loss, loneliness and the power of imagination.

Stories from the Chestnut Woods

2019

A Casa Mia poster
7.0

Left alone as only inhabitants of a deserted fishing village, two elderly people - Lucia and Peppino live in the hope that winter will never end.

A Casa Mia

2016

Mi Chiamava Valerio poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Mi Chiamava Valerio

2014

Il meglio di te poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il meglio di te

2023

Il cacio con le pere poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il cacio con le pere

2023

I delitti del BarLume - La battaglia navale poster
7.1

No synopsis available yet.

I delitti del BarLume - La battaglia navale

2018

La donna del Lago poster
NR

Rossini’s La donna del lago, premièred in 1819 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, is a masterpiece based on the poem The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, which is full of passion and romantic frisson. “With characteristic boldness, Michieletto reformulates this glittering music into something otherworldly” (Financial Times) and the performance is “musically brilliant” (Die Presse.com). “Marko Mimica and Varduhi Abrahamyan produce strong performances as Douglas and Malcom respectively. Flórez is laser like and fresh as ever and thrilling brutish …” (Financial Times) while the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes: “Michele Mariotti and his outstanding orchestra were the stars of the evening.”

La donna del Lago

2023

KM 9 poster
6.5

The 1980s, the Tuscan countryside. Two young lovers are driving east to enjoy the dawn but they end up at the scene of a crime and become the new target of the criminals

KM 9

2022

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dente di cinghiale

2026

Via Don Minzoni N.6 poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Via Don Minzoni N.6

2024