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Luisa Mattioli (23 March 1936 – October 2021) was an Italian actress. She was active in cinema and television during the 1950s and 1960s, and was notably the third wife of Roger Moore.
Oct 5, 2021 · Sir Roger Moore's third wife - the Italian actress Luisa Mattioli - has died at the age of 85. Family friends say the star, who was married to Sir Roger for 24 years, had been 'ill for some time'.
Oct 6, 2021 · Sir Roger Moore’s third wife, Luisa Mattioli, has died at the age of 85. Mattioli, who was married to the late James Bond legend for 24 years, died after battling an unspecified illness.
- 6 Luisa Was Born and Raised in Italy
- 5 How Did She Meet Her Husband, Roger?
- 4 So How Did Roger and Luisa's Relationship Begin?
- 3 What Happened Next?
- 2 What Was Luisa's Life Like with Roger?
- 1 How Did Luisa Spend Her Later years?
Luisa Mattioli was born on the 23rd of March 1936, in San Stino di Livenza, a town close to the historic city of Venice. She worked hard at school, and she went on to study at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, a prestigious institution which is the oldest film school in Western Europe. Luisa had a passion for acting and the cinema and soug...
By the late 50s, Luisa's career was starting to gain traction, and she found herself appearing in popular Italian movies such as The Night of The Great Attack, often playing small roles but gaining confidence and experience through such work. In 1961, on the set ofRomulus and the Sabines, she first met Roger Moore. The attraction was immediate, at ...
Though Roger claimed to be happily married to wife Dorothy, it wasn't long before he was pursuing a relationship with Luisa - whose beauty and charisma he found hard to ignore. According to Moore, 'language was no barrier' between them. Their involvement together was passionate, and they began seeing each other regularly, causing great pain to Doro...
Even more dramatically, Luisa soon became pregnant by Roger - a scandal which threatened everything around them. Recalling that time in her life, Luisa said: "I met Roger in 1961 when we were filming together in Rome and Yugoslavia. It was after his Hollywood period - he had been unhappily under contract to MGM - and quite simply, we fell in love.....
In a word: tumultuous. Their marriage was notoriously fiery. Though they had three children together – Deborah, Geoffrey, and Christian – domestic life was not always plain sailing for the pair. Roger began to tire of the constant arguments, and in 1993 he left Luisa for Swedish socialite Kristina 'Kiki' Tholstrup, allegedly abandoning his wife at ...
The years following her divorce from Roger - which she refused to grant for seven years - were at times difficult and confusing for Luisa, who struggled with resentment towards her former husband, and felt deep feelings of animosity towards Kiki. She did not remarry following her divorce from the famous Bond actor, and instead retreated from the li...
Oct 24, 2021 · Luisa Mattioli, who has died aged 85, acted in films in her native Italy in the 1950s and 1960s before becoming the third wife of Roger Moore, the screen personification of James Bond in the...
Oct 22, 2021 · Luisa Mattioli, who has died aged 85, acted in films in her native Italy in the 1950s and ’60s before becoming the third wife of Sir Roger Moore, the screen personification of James Bond in the 1970s and ’80s.