Natural around Rome, Italy (although some life story erroneously claim she was natural within Alexandria, Egypt), illegitimately and never knew world health organization her father was. Whenever she was abandoned by her mother at an early age, Anna was raised by her enate granny. She attended a Academy of Dramatic Art inside Rome, paying her way by working at nightclubs and cabarets.

She got the little the share within a silent film, Scampolo, in 1928, but did non be easily-known until a 1940s, starring in Vittorio De Sica's Teresa Venerdì and in Roma, città aperta (Open City).

Around 1955 she went to Hollywood, and starred in the film version of Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Inside 1957, she was nominated for Best Actress for Wild is the Wind. She besides starred in The Secret of Santa Vittoria.

Magnani got celebrated romance, by using director Roberto Rossellini and with actor Massimo Serato, using whom she experienced the boy, world health organization was stricken with polio. Her only marriage, to director Goffredo Alessandrini, did not endure yearn.

She died around Italy at a age of 65 from either pancreatic cancer.

She has the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6381 Hollywood Blvd.