Alias: Maria de Sisti (with "de" in slowcase)
A huge woman, well over a hundred and fifty kilos of weight: she's one of the "Fellini's creatures", indeed, her career begins with Fellini Satyricon in 1969 and will later be seen in both Roma (1972) and Amarcord (1973), again directed by Fellini.
If Franca Scagnetti represented the Roman populan woman, with her physical abundance, Maria De Sisti is almost a caricature of this figure. Far more impressive than another fat extra, Ada Crostona, her appearance is in itself impressive. Not infrequently, in addition to the role of a simple extra, she also had small parts of speech, played in a natural way, not being an actress by profession.
Always uncredited in movies, Maria De Sisti was identified with the help of the book Fellini's faces.
FILMOGRAPHY
- La cento chilometri (uncredited) .... Woman at the drinking fountain
1969 - Fellini Satyricon (uncredited) .... role? (no pic still)
1970 - Terzo canale - Avventura a Montecarlo (uncredited) .... The wife of the owner of the chicken farm
1971 - Bubù (uncredited) .... Fat woman
- Correva l'anno di grazia 1870 (uncredited) .... Paesant
1972 - Roma (uncredited) .... Owner of the guest-house
- Il maschio ruspante (uncredited) .... Fat dancer
- Il west ti va stretto, amico... è arrivato Alleluja (uncredited) .... role?
- Le notti peccaminose di Pietro l'Aretino (uncredited) .... Villager
- Quando le donne persero la coda (uncredited) .... The slave traded
- Uomo avvisato mezzo ammazzato... Parola di Spirito Santo (1972) .... Villager
1973 - Amarcord (uncredited) .... Woman at the funeral
- Bella, ricca, lieve difetto fisico cerca anima gemella (uncredited) .... Passerby with jealous husband
- Ku Fu? - Dalla Sicilia con furore (uncredited) .... The betrothed
- Meo Patacca (uncredited) .... role?
1974 - Di Tresette ce n'è uno, tutti gli altri son nessuno (uncredited) .... Bank client
1976 - La dottoressa del distretto militare (uncredited) .... Addolorata
1978 - Giallo napoletano (uncredited) .... Asylum patient
- La soldatessa alle grandi manovre (uncredited) .... Farfallina, the paesant prostitute
1981 - Bianco rosso e verdone (uncredited) .... Woman at the cemetery
1983 - 'F.F.S.S.', cioè:... che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene? (uncredited) .... Tavern customer