Dorian Gray
Actor
Biography
Maria Luisa Mangini (2 February 1928 – 15 February 2011), better known as Dorian Gray, was an Italian actress.
Gray made her stage debut in 1950. After five years she left the theater world and devoted herself to the cinema.
The role she played most often in films was that of a seductive sex kitten. She played the titular "bad girl" in Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina. She also appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni's Il grido. In 1957, she took part in The Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini.
On February 15, 2011, Gray committed suicide by gunshot at her home in Torcegno. She was 83 years old; however, some media reported her age as 75, since she claimed to have been born in 1936.
Filmography
Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
as Marisa Florian 1956
Il Grido
as Virginia 1957
Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
as Valeria 1956
Totò Double or Nothing?
as Hélène 1956
Love and Larceny
as Elena 1960
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
as Eleonora Franzetti 1960
Love on the Riviera
as Dorina 1958
Colossus and the Amazon Queen
as Antiope 1960
Vacations in Majorca
as Hélène 1959
Winter Holidays
as Carol Field 1959
Dangerous Women
as Ornella 1958
The Queen of Sheba
as Ati 1952
The Surprises of Love
as Didi 1959
Domenica è sempre domenica
as Luciana 1958
Commando
as Nora 1962
The Criminals of the Metropolis
as Denise 1967