Mara Venier

Acting

Mara Venier

Born

1950-10-20 (75)

Place of birth

Venice, Veneto, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

33 titles

Mara Venier (born Mara Povoleri; 20 October 1950) is an Italian actress and television presenter. She began her career in film and television in the 1970s before becoming widely known as host of the long-running Rai 1 variety show Domenica In, a role she has held in multiple seasons since 1993 and for which she is considered a defining figure in Italian Sunday television. In addition to her work on Domenica In, Venier has appeared in a number of films and TV series and remains a prominent personality in Italian entertainment.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 6 titles

1980s · 11 titles

Kamikazen: Last Night in Milan poster
5.9

A group of comedians are trying to be successful on stage. One night an important television network organises a public variety show to sort out some performers for their programs. Every one of them will try their hardest, but just a few will be chosen.

Kamikazen: Last Night in Milan

1987

Sweets from a Stranger poster
5.1

In Rome, a sadistic serial killer begins stalking and murdering sex workers, leaving the community terrified and the authorities struggling to stop the violence. After several attacks, four women—Lena, Angela, Nadine, and Stella—decide they can’t wait to be the next victims, and band together to protect each other and take a more active role in the search. As police pressure mounts and the women start digging for clues on their own, the hunt turns the city into a tense web of fear, rumors, and suspicion.

Sweets from a Stranger

1987

Professione vacanze poster
6.1

Enrico Borghini is an entertainer who finds himself becoming the director of a tourist village in crisis. Helped by the village staff, who are initially hostile to him, he manages to revive the fortunes of the structure.

Professione vacanze

1987

Crimes and Perfumes poster
4.7

Eddy is the detective of a general store. His girl is Barbara who works in the same store. Barbara receives a gift, a bottle of scent, and later she dies burned. Police detective Turoni begins to investigate and Eddy, wanting to revenge Barbara, does the same. Another girl, Porzia, is murdered in the same way and Eddy finds out that the motive of the crimes dates back some fifteen years.

Crimes and Perfumes

1988

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose poster
5.5

Two back-to-back stories that deals with two "taboo" themes, the celibacy of the clergy in the episode of Renato Pozzetto and the homosexuality in the one with Nino Manfredi.

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

1982

At the Sports Bar poster
6.3

Lino lives in Turin with the family of his sister. He doesn't have a good job and never enough money. But in a day his life changes: he wins 1 billion dollars in a lottery and... everyone becomes a friend, the girl who he liked becomes his girlfriend and his sister begins to love him. He leaves Turin with his friend Parola and, in a casino, he loses all money! But luck returns...

At the Sports Bar

1983

NightClub poster
4.3

The nightlife of young carefree friends in a wonderful 60s Rome.

NightClub

1989

Metropolitan Animals poster
5.5

In the year 2030 mankind has regressed to ape form. In order to explain this, a scientist shows a 20th century film about a Roman couple in a society gone mad slightly more than usual to his audience.

Metropolitan Animals

1988

Portami la luna poster
9.0

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Portami la luna

1987

Chewingum poster
5.5

Geared to a teen and pre-teen audience, this juvenile romance is set in the last year of high school and involves the attraction between Isabella, a beautiful newcomer to the school, and Massimo, an introverted, hard-working young student .

Chewingum

1984

Zappatore poster
7.7

Francesco Esposito and his wife Maddalena are two farmers who raised Mario, their only son, with loving devotion. To help him study, they also incurred debts to the city's loan shark. The boy has since become a brilliant lawyer and in Naples, where he moved for work, he met Nancy, the daughter of an Italian-American industrialist, and fell in love with her; it would seem like a story with a happy ending, if it weren't for the fact that Mario is ashamed of his parents' humble origins.

Zappatore

1980

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