Barbara Cupisti is an Italian award winning documentary director with a long career as film actress who is well known outside of her native country by Horror fans. They will most likely recognize her from her films with director Michele Soavi and Dario Argento. She specialized in action movies. She became famous in France for her role in the very popular TV "feuilleton" Chateauvallon. She divided her activity between France and Italy since 1993 when she had her son from Italian actor Alberto Gimignani. She speaks Italian, English, French and Spanish. Since 2002 she started to direct for Rai Cinema. Her first documentary movie Mothers, shown in Venice Film Festival 2007, won the David di Donatello 2008 for Best Documentary of the year. Her second documentary, Forbidden Childhood, was screened in the festival circuit and has received the Audience Award for the Best Documentary Film at the Bahrein International Human Rights Film Festival and the Amnesty International Cinema and Human Rights Award at the Pesaro International Film Festival for the New Cinema,and at the Bobbio Film Festival of Marco Bellocchio. Unicef Italia gave to this movie the High Patronage. 

January 24th, 1962 in Viareggio (Age 62)