Regina Bianchi

Regina Bianchi, stage name of Regina D'Antigny (1 January 1921 - 5 April 2013) was an Italian stage and film actress.

Born in Lecce, she was the daughter of two theater actors. Forced by the fascist phobia for the foreign culture to change her surname, she adopted the surname of her paternal grandmother. At 16 Bianchi entered the stage company of Raffaele Viviani and the same year she debuted in the comedy play Campagna napoletana in which she played the leading role of Reginella. 

In 1939 she starred in the drama film Il ponte di vetro; in the film set she became engaged to the director Goffredo Alessandrini, that was her partner for over twenty years. After having announced her retirement in 1944, she came back in 1959 with the title role in Eduardo De Filippo's Filumena Marturano. She won two Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress, in 1963 for Nanni Loy's The Four Days of Naples and in 1996 for Leone Pompucci's Camerieri. In 1996 she was awarded Grand Officer of the Italian Republic for artistic merits. She died at 92 in her house in Rome.

Further reading

• Barbara Bulzomì, Regina Bianchi. Regina del palcoscenico, Edizioni Universitarie Romane, 2008. ISBN 9788860220615
• Maricla Boggio, Vita di Regina. Regina Bianchi si racconta, RAI-ERI, 2012. ISBN 8839715789