Born in
Turin, Italy in 1930 to a mother originally from
Savoie, France (Renée Planche, daughter of Deputy Francois Gilbert Planche) and an Italian engineer father (Carlo Domenico Borini), originally from
Piedmont. She is married to the Italian industrialist and classical composer Alberto Bruni Tedeschi and they have three children: • A son, Virginio, a photographer who died of
AIDS In 1973, Marisa and her husband went into exile in Paris, officially to escape the Italian communist
Red Brigades, but also due to the bankruptcy of the family business,
CEAT, later bought by the
Pirelli group. In 2003, she played the mother of the Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and
Chiara Mastroianni in a semi-biographical film also written and directed by Bruni-Tedeschi,
Il est plus facile pour un chameau... (It's Easier for a Camel). She also plays her real-life daughter's mother in her films
Actrices and
Un chateau en Italie. For the latter, she was nominated for the
César for Best Supporting Actress at the
2014 César Awards. == Film and television work ==