Cristina Comencini

Cristina Comencini was born on May 08, 1956 in Italy. Cristina Comencini's big-screen debut came with Zoo directed by Cristina Comencini in 1988.

Cristina Comencini was born in Rome in 1956. Her father was the Italian director Luigi Comencini and with him she began her career as a screenwriter, co-writing Il matrimonio di Caterina (1982), Buon Natale... Buon anno (1989), Quattro storie di donne (1986), Cuore and La Storia.Graduated in Economics, she made her debut as a movie director in 1988 with Zoo, followed by I divertimenti della vita privata (1990), La fine è nota (1992), Va' dove ti porta il cuore (1996), Matrimoni (1998), Liberate i pesci (1999), Il più bel giorno della mia vita (2002), La bestia nel cuore (2005 - nominated by the Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language Film's category), Bianco e nero (2008), Quando la Notte (2011), Latin Lover (2015). For theatre she wrote and directed the plays Due Partite (2006), Est Ovest (2009), Libere (2010) and La Scena (2013).As author, she published Pagine strappate (1991), Passione di famiglia (1994), Matrioska (2002), La bestia nel cuore (2004), Due partite (2006), L'illusione del bene (2007 - nominated by Premio Strega as Best Book of the Year), Quando la Notte (2009), La nave più bella (2012), Lucy (2014), Voi non la conoscete (2014).She is the happy mother of three: Carlo, Giulia and Luigi.