She had a son with her cousin, Carlo Mantegazza. [October 1998]
Educated in Australia and England, UK
Nationality: British
Ex-girlfriend of singer Tim Finn between 1983 and 1989.
Turned down the Sharon Stone role in Basic Instinct (1992)
Daughter: Leila George D'Onofrio, born in March 1992. Leila's father is actor Vincent D'Onofrio.
Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996.
Greta Scacchi Detailed Biography
Her mother is an English dancer and her father an Italian painter. She grew up in Milan and later moves to London. In 1975, her parents moved to Australia, and Greta worked as a cowgirl and an Italian interpreter. At age 18, she returned to London and followed lessons at the Old-Vic-Theatre. Played small parts as a stage actress and worked as a model for commercials. The young film maker Dominik Graf discovered her and her first film part is Zweite Gesicht, Das (1982). Being a perfectionist, she learned German for this movie. After Heat and Dust (1983), she played parts for Australian and English television and returned to London. While playing in a modernised play by Anton Tsjechow in 1988, (directed by Margarethe von Trotta), she was discovered by Hollywood.
