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Ania Pieroni (born 1957 in Rome) is an Italian actress from the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Ania Pieroni was born in 1957 in Rome to a middle-class family. Her paternal grandfather was the mayor of Pescara, while her maternal grandfather was a German architect. Her father was a Knight of Malta, a pilot who as a hobby traded American cars. She attended primary and secondary Catholic schools, and later graduated high school in Rome. On the advice of her father, who was in favor of a diplomatic career, Ania began attending a faculty of political sciences.
Ania started her film career by taking a small part in the 1978 Alberto Lattuada film Stay As You Are. Ania Pieroni famously starred as the Mother of Tears (Mater Lacrimarum) in the 1980 film Inferno by Dario Argento. Her last film was "Fracchia contro Dracula", released in 1985.
From 1985 to 1991 she was the director of a local, but influential TV station - GBR.
In the 1980s Ania lived in Milan, and at the time she was engaged to Count Roberto Gancia. However, the engagement fell apart after she met Bettino Craxi, the secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI).
Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne], (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer and conductor, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces. Morricone is most famous for his work in the Spaghetti Westerns directed by his friend Sergio Leone, including A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) but his career includes a wide range of composition genres making him one of the film world's most versatile artists. He is considered as one of the most influential film music composers of the 20th century.
Born in Rome, Italy, Morricone took up the trumpet as a child and attended the National Academy of Santa Cecilia to take lessons on the instrument at the age of nine. He formally entered a conservatory at the age of 12, enrolling in a four-year harmony programme. He received his trumpet diploma in 1946 and started working professionally, composing the music to "Il Mattino" ("The Morning"). Morricone soon gained popularity by writing his first background music for radio dramas and quickly moved into film.