Training and early career
When the stripling she acted inside amateur productions, so trained as an actor at Rome's National Academy of Dramatic Arts & at Pitman's, around which she played the teenager in the charity performance of Niccodemi's La Nemica. She toured Germany sustaining an Italian acting company & her number 1 stage appearance around Rome was for the production of Macchiavelli's La Mandragora. Vitti's foremost film role was within Ettore Scola's Ridere Ridere Ridere (1954). Within 1957 she joined Michelangelo Antonioni's Teatro Nuovo di Milano, late swimming the leading role inside his award winning, existentialist landmark film ''L'avventura'' (1960) as a detached and cool protagonist drifting into a relationship with her best friend's lover. Sustaining the screen presence that hwhen been described as "stunning", Vitti is likewise credited by having helping Antonioni raise money for the production & sticking by owning him across its hard location shooting. She late received critical praise for starring roles within more Antonioni films including La Notte, ''L'Eclisse, and Red Desert. Her merely Hollywood effort was Modesty Blaise'', a mod James Bond spoof with Terence Stamp (1966) which was the critical & commercial disappointment & involved a like notorious musical total.

Later career
Vitti's within the future pic appearances stand mostly been in Italian films forgoing international distribution. Notable exceptions include Luis Brunel's Fantôme de la liberté (1974). Around 1980 she was reunited by having Antonioni when Fifteen years around his A Mystery of Oberwald. Inside 1989 she wrote, directed & starred around Scandalo Segreto. Her image late appeared in an Italian postage stamp commemorating ''50'avvenutra. Inside 1993 Vitti was awarded a Festival Tribute'' at a Créteil International Women's Film Festival inside France. She married Roberto Russo inside 1995.

Filmography
A original titles come given. Two or even three roles come uncredited minor role or voice overs.

Ridere! Ridere! Ridere! (1954) Una Pelliccia di visone (1954) Adriana Lecouvreur (1955) Le Dritte (1958) ''L'Avventura (1960) La Notte (1961) Accattone (1961) L'Eclisse (1962) Les Quatre vérités (1962) Château en Suède (1963) Follie d'estate (1963) Dragées au poivre (1963) Alta infedeltà (1964) Il Deserto rosso (1964) Il Disco volante (1964) Le Bambole (1965) Le Fate (1966) Modesty Blaise (1966) Ti ho sposato per allegria (1967) Fai in fretta ad uccidermi... ho freddo! (1967) La Ragazza con la pistola (1968) La Femme écarlate (1968) La Cintura di castità (1968) Amore mio aiutami (1969) Ninì Tirabusciò: la donna che inventò la mossa (1970) Dramma della gelosia - tutti i particolari in cronaca (1970) Le Coppie (1970) La Pacifista (1970) La Supertestimone (1971) Noi donne siamo fatte così (1971) Teresa la ladra (1972) Gli Ordini sono ordini (1972) La Tosca (1973) Polvere di stelle (1973) Le Fantôme de la liberté (1974) L'Anatra all'arancia (1975) A mezzanotte va la ronda del piacere (1975) Qui comincia l'avventura (1975) Basta che non si sappia in giro! (1976) Mimì Bluette ... fiore del mio giardino (1977) L'Altra metà del cielo (1977) Per vivere meglio, divertitevi con noi (1978) La Raison d'état (1978) Letti selvaggi (1979) Amori miei (1979) An Almost Perfect Affair (1979) Il Tango della gelosia (1980) Non ti conosco più amore (1980) Camera d'albergo (1981) Il Mistero di Oberwald (1981) Io so che tu sai che io so (1982) Scusa se è poco (1982) Flirt (1983) Francesca è mia (1986) Scandalo segreto (1989)

Television
Ma tu mi vuoi bene?'' (1991 miniseries)