Their collaborations include romances Bread and Tulips (2000) – for which Maglietta won multiple awards – and Agata and the Storm (2004).

In 1981 she joined avant-garde stage company "Falso Movimento" (later renamed Teatri Uniti) where she worked with director Mario Martone.

[1] Maglietta began her screen career in the mid 1980s via a run of television roles, including playing Desdemona in a 1985 telemovie based on Shakespeare's Othello.

The film won more than 30 awards, and Maglietta took away at least five of them, including a David di Donatello, a Nastro d'Argento, and a Ciak d'oro.

She again co-starred; this time she played a woman running a bookshop in the Italian port city of Genoa, who romances a younger man.