Eleonora Giorgi (born 21 October 1953) is an Italian actress.
Biography
Giorgi was born in
Rome
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. Her father was of Italian and English origin.
Her mother was of Italian and Hungarian origin.
She made her film debut in a minor role in Paolo Cavara's horror film ''
Black Belly of the Tarantula
Black is a color which results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without hue, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness. Black and white have o ...
'' (1970) and subsequently appeared in nearly fifty films, mostly in prominent roles.
Domenico Paolella
Domenico Paolella (18 October 1915 - 7 October 2002) was an Italian director, screenwriter and journalist.
Born in Foggia, between 1933 and 1935 Paolella won several contests for amateur directors; in the same years he started working as a journ ...
's ''
Story of a Cloistered Nun
''Story of a Cloistered Nun'' ( it, Storia di una monaca di clausura, released as ''Unholy Convent'' and ''Diary of a Cloistered Nun'') is a 1973 nunsploitation film directed by Domenico Paolella and starring Eleonora Giorgi, Catherine Spaak, Suzy ...
'' (1973), an important
nunsploitation
Nunsploitation is a subgenre of exploitation film which had its peak in Europe in the 1970s. These films typically involve Christian nuns living in convents during the Middle Ages.
Criteria
The main conflict of the story is usually of a religio ...
, marked her film debut, at age eighteen. She then took part in ''Il bacio'' (''The kiss''), a fantasy drama directed by
Mario Lanfranchi
Mario Lanfranchi (30 June 1927 – 3 January 2022) was an Italian film, theatre, and television director, screenwriter, producer, collector, and actor.
Career
Lanfranchi was born in Parma. After receiving a degree at the Drama Academy ( Accad ...
, and in erotic comedies such as
Salvatore Samperi
Salvatore Samperi (26 July 1944 – 4 March 2009) was an Italian film director. His 1973 film ''Malicious (1973 film), Malicious'' was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival and his 1979 film ''Ernesto (film), Ernesto' ...
's ''
La sbandata
''La sbandata'' is a 1974 commedia sexy all'italiana film directed by Alfredo Malfatti (supervised by Salvatore Samperi). According to several sources the film was actually directed by Samperi but signed by his assistant director for contract i ...
'' (1974), in which she plays near
Domenico Modugno
Domenico Modugno (; 9 January 1928 – 6 August 1994) was an Italian singer, actor and, later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament. He is known for his 1958 international hit song "Nel blu, dipinto di blu (song), Nel blu dipinto di blu", ...
and
Luciana Paluzzi
Luciana Paluzzi (born 10 June 1937) is an Italian actress. She is perhaps best known for playing SPECTRE assassin Fiona Volpe in the fourth James Bond film, '' Thunderball'', but she had important roles in notable films of the 1960s and 1970s in ...
,
Luciano Salce
Luciano Salce (25 September 1922 – 17 December 1989) was an Italian film director, comedian, tv host, producer, actor and lyricist. His 1962 film ''Le pillole di Ercole'' was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Ve ...
's ''
Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno
''Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno'' (''To my dear mother on the day of her birthday'') is a 1974 Italian comedy drama film directed by Luciano Salce.Andrea Pergolari. ''Ha visto il montaggio analogico?''. Lavieri edizioni, 2011.
...
'' (1974),
Pasquale Festa Campanile
Pasquale Festa Campanile (28 July 1927 – 25 February 1986) was an Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist, best known as a prominent exponent of the commedia all'italiana genre.
Life and career
Born at Melfi, in the province o ...
's ''
Conviene far bene l'amore
''Conviene far bene l'amore'' (internationally released as ''The Sex Machine'' and ''Love and Energy'') is a 1975 sci-fi - sexy comedy film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile. The film is based on a novel with the same name written by the same ...
'' (U.S. title: ''Love and Energy'') (1975) and Gianluigi Calderone''
's
Appassionata
Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (colloquially known as the ''Appassionata'', meaning "passionate" in Italian) is among the three famous piano sonatas of his middle period (the others being the ''Waldstein'', Op. 53 ...
'', that definitively gaine her the public acclaim.
Roles in movies like
Franco Brusati
Franco Brusati (4 August 1922 in Milan – 28 February 1993 in Rome) was an Italian screenwriter and Film director, director.
Biography
He directed the internationally commended film hit ''Bread and Chocolate'', one of the finest examples o ...
's ''
To Forget Venice
''To Forget Venice'' ( it, Dimenticare Venezia) is a 1979 Italian drama film written and directed by Franco Brusati. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 52nd Academy Awards.
Cast
* Mariangela Melato as Ann ...
''
(1979),
Dario Argento
Dario Argento (; born 7 September 1940) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and film critic, critic. His influential work in the horror film, horror genre during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in the subgenre known as ...
's ''
Inferno
Inferno may refer to:
* Hell, an afterlife place of suffering
* Conflagration, a large uncontrolled fire
Film
* ''L'Inferno'', a 1911 Italian film
* Inferno (1953 film), ''Inferno'' (1953 film), a film noir by Roy Ward Baker
* Inferno (1973 fi ...
'' (1980),
Nino Manfredi
Saturnino "Nino" Manfredi (22 March 1921 – 4 June 2004) was an Italian actor, voice actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, comedian, singer, author, radio personality and television presenter.
He was one of the most prominent Italian a ...
's ''
Nudo di donna
''Nudo di donna'' (internationally released as ''Portrait of a Woman, Nude'' and ''Portrait of a Nude Woman'') is a 1981 Italian Mystery film, mystery - comedy film. It is the third and final film directed by Nino Manfredi. The original director, A ...
'' (1981), and
Liliana Cavani
Liliana Cavani (born 12 January 1933, Carpi, Italy) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She belongs to a generation of Italian filmmakers from Emilia-Romagna that came into prominence in the 1970s, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier P ...
's ''
Beyond Obsession
''Beyond the Door'' ( it, Oltre la porta, and also known as ''Beyond Obsession'') is a 1982 Italian drama film directed by Liliana Cavani.
Cast
* Marcello Mastroianni as Enrico Sommi
* Eleonora Giorgi as Nina
* Tom Berenger as Matthew Jackson
...
'' (1982) are some of her most known and remarkable dramatic performances but in the beginning of the eighties, Giorgi decides to rejoin comedy. She's near
Adriano Celentano
Adriano Celentano (; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian musician, singer, composer, actor, and filmmaker. He is dubbed "''il Molleggiato''" (the springy one) because of his dancing.
Celentano's many albums frequently enjoyed both commercial and ...
in ''
Mani di fata
''Mani di fata'' (''Fairy Hands'') is a 1983 Italian comedy film directed by Steno.
Plot
After a sudden dismissal, the engineer Andrea Ferrini, unable to find another job, begins to carry out the household chores. His wife Franca, on the contra ...
'' and
''Grand hotel excelsior''; for her performance in
Carlo Verdone
Carlo Gregorio Verdone (born 17 November 1950) is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director.
Verdone is best known for his comedic roles in Italian classics, which he also wrote and directed. His career was jumpstarted by his first thre ...
's ''
Borotalco
''Talcum Powder'' (Original title: ''Borotalco'') is a 1982 Italian comedy film written, starring and directed by Carlo Verdone.
The film received multiple David di Donatello awards in Italy for Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Scor ...
'' (1982), she won the
Nastro d'Argento
The Nastro d'Argento, also known by its translated name Silver Ribbon, is an Italian film award awarded each year since 1946 by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists (Italian: ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani ...
award and
David di Donatello
The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's ''David'', a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the ''Accademia del Cinema Italiano'' (The Academy of Italian Cinema). There are 26 award cat ...
award for Best Actress.
In 2003, Giorgi wrote and directed her first film ''Uomini & donne, amori & bugie'' (U.S. title: ''Love, Lies, Kids... & Dogs''), with
Ornella Muti
Ornella Muti (born Francesca Romana Rivelli; 9 March 1955) is an Italian actress. She made her film debut as Francesca Cimarosa in the 1970 film ''La moglie più bella.''
Early life
Muti was born in Rome to a Neapolitan journalist father and I ...
.
Filmography
* ''
Story of a cloistered nun
''Story of a Cloistered Nun'' ( it, Storia di una monaca di clausura, released as ''Unholy Convent'' and ''Diary of a Cloistered Nun'') is a 1973 nunsploitation film directed by Domenico Paolella and starring Eleonora Giorgi, Catherine Spaak, Suzy ...
'', directed by
Domenico Paolella
Domenico Paolella (18 October 1915 - 7 October 2002) was an Italian director, screenwriter and journalist.
Born in Foggia, between 1933 and 1935 Paolella won several contests for amateur directors; in the same years he started working as a journ ...
(1973)
* ''
Appassionata
Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (colloquially known as the ''Appassionata'', meaning "passionate" in Italian) is among the three famous piano sonatas of his middle period (the others being the ''Waldstein'', Op. 53 ...
'', directed by
Gianluigi Calderone
Gianluigi is an Italian masculine given name meaning "John Louis". It is often an abbreviation of "Giovanni Luigi". Famous people with this given name include:
* Gianluigi Braschi, Italian film producer
*Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
*Gianl ...
(1974)
* ''
The Kiss'', directed by
Mario Lanfranchi
Mario Lanfranchi (30 June 1927 – 3 January 2022) was an Italian film, theatre, and television director, screenwriter, producer, collector, and actor.
Career
Lanfranchi was born in Parma. After receiving a degree at the Drama Academy ( Accad ...
(1974)
* ''
Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno
''Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno'' (''To my dear mother on the day of her birthday'') is a 1974 Italian comedy drama film directed by Luciano Salce.Andrea Pergolari. ''Ha visto il montaggio analogico?''. Lavieri edizioni, 2011.
...
'', directed by
Luciano Salce
Luciano Salce (25 September 1922 – 17 December 1989) was an Italian film director, comedian, tv host, producer, actor and lyricist. His 1962 film ''Le pillole di Ercole'' was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Ve ...
(1974)
* ''
La sbandata
''La sbandata'' is a 1974 commedia sexy all'italiana film directed by Alfredo Malfatti (supervised by Salvatore Samperi). According to several sources the film was actually directed by Samperi but signed by his assistant director for contract i ...
'', directed by Alfredo Malfatti (supervised by
Salvatore Samperi
Salvatore Samperi (26 July 1944 – 4 March 2009) was an Italian film director. His 1973 film ''Malicious (1973 film), Malicious'' was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival and his 1979 film ''Ernesto (film), Ernesto' ...
) (1974)
* ''
Conviene far bene l'amore
''Conviene far bene l'amore'' (internationally released as ''The Sex Machine'' and ''Love and Energy'') is a 1975 sci-fi - sexy comedy film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile. The film is based on a novel with the same name written by the same ...
'', directed by
Pasquale Festa Campanile
Pasquale Festa Campanile (28 July 1927 – 25 February 1986) was an Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist, best known as a prominent exponent of the commedia all'italiana genre.
Life and career
Born at Melfi, in the province o ...
(1975)
* ''
Cuore di cane
''Cuore di cane'' (german: Warum bellt Herr Bobikow?, International title - ''Dog's Heart'') is a 1976 joint Italian-German comedy film directed by Alberto Lattuada based on a novel ''Heart of a Dog'' by Mikhail Bulgakov adapted by Mario Gall ...
'', directed by
Alberto Lattuada
Alberto Lattuada (; 13 November 1914 – 3 July 2005) was an Italian film director.
Career
Lattuada was born in Vaprio d'Adda, the son of composer Felice Lattuada. He was initially interested in literature, becoming, while still a student, a mem ...
(1975)
* ''
Young, Violent, Dangerous
''Young, Violent, Dangerous'' ( it, Liberi armati pericolosi), is a 1976 Italian "poliziottesco" film directed by Romolo Guerrieri. It is based on the short stories "Bravi ragazzi bang bang'' and ''In pineta si uccide meglio'', both included in Gio ...
,'' directed by
Romolo Guerrieri
Romolo Guerrieri, aka ''Romolo Girolami'' (born 5 December 1931) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1961 and 1992.
Selected filmography
;Director
* '' Ten Thousand Dollars for a Massacre'' (1966)
* '' ...
(1976)
* ''
And Agnes Chose to Die
''L'Agnese va a morire'', internationally released as ''And Agnes Chose to Die'', is a 1976 Italian drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than hum ...
,'' directed by
Giuliano Montaldo
Giuliano Montaldo (born 22 February 1930) is an Italian film director.
Biography
While he was still a young student, Montaldo was recruited by the director Carlo Lizzani for the role of leading actor in the film ''Achtung! Banditi!'' (1951). ...
(1976)
* ''L'ultima volta'', directed by
Aldo Lado
Aldo Lado (born 5 December 1934) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and writer. Lado was born in Fiume, Italy (today Rijeka, Croatia). Lado wrote the screenplays for 21 films between 1968 and 2004 and directed 14 films between 1971 and 19 ...
(1976)
* ''
Ready for Anything
''Ready for Anything'' ( it, Disposta a tutto) is a 1977 Italian romance film written and directed by Giorgio Stegani and starring Eleonora Giorgi and Bekim Fehmiu.
Plot
Cast
*Eleonora Giorgi as Anna
* Bekim Fehmiu as Marco
* Barbara Magn ...
,'' directed by
Giorgio Stegani
Giorgio Stegani (13 October 1928 – 20 February 2020) was an Italian film and television writer, film director and second unit director.
Stegani was best known for his western films of the 1960s. He wrote the script for westerns such as ''Un ...
(1977)
* ''
A Spiral of Mist,'' directed by
Eriprando Visconti
Eriprando Visconti di Modrone, Count of Vico Modrone (September 24, 1932 – May 26, 1995) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was the nephew of the more famous Luchino Visconti.
Born in Milan into a noble family, in ...
(1977)
* ''Ca fait tilt'', directed by
Andrè Hunebelle (1977)
* ''
Suggestionata,'' directed by Alfredo Rizzo (1978)
* ''
Safari Rally
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,'' directed by
Bitto Albertini
Adalberto "Bitto" Albertini (1924–1999) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Career
He began his film career as a camera operator and as a cinematographer. In 1974 Albertini directed ''Black Emanuelle'' starring the then almost unk ...
(1978)
* ''
To Forget Venice
''To Forget Venice'' ( it, Dimenticare Venezia) is a 1979 Italian drama film written and directed by Franco Brusati. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 52nd Academy Awards.
Cast
* Mariangela Melato as Ann ...
,'' directed by
Franco Brusati
Franco Brusati (4 August 1922 in Milan – 28 February 1993 in Rome) was an Italian screenwriter and Film director, director.
Biography
He directed the internationally commended film hit ''Bread and Chocolate'', one of the finest examples o ...
(1979)
* ''
A Man on His Knees
''Un uomo in ginocchio'' (internationally released as ''A Man on His Knees'') is a 1979 Italian crime-drama film directed by Damiano Damiani. For his performance Giuliano Gemma won the Grolla d'oro for Best Actor.
Cast
* Giuliano Gemma: Nino ...
,'' directed by
Damiano Damiani
Damiano Damiani (23 July 1922 – 7 March 2013) was an Italian screenwriter, film director, actor and writer. Poet and director Pier Paolo Pasolini referred to him as "a bitter moralist hungry for old purity", while film critic Paolo Mere ...
(1979)
* ''
Velvet Hands,'' directed by
Castellano & Pipolo
Castellano & Pipolo is the stage name used by the pair of Italian screenwriters and film directors Franco Castellano (1925–1999) and Giuseppe Moccia (1933–2006). Together, they wrote the screenplays for about seventy films, and directed twe ...
(1980)
* ''
Inferno
Inferno may refer to:
* Hell, an afterlife place of suffering
* Conflagration, a large uncontrolled fire
Film
* ''L'Inferno'', a 1911 Italian film
* Inferno (1953 film), ''Inferno'' (1953 film), a film noir by Roy Ward Baker
* Inferno (1973 fi ...
'', directed by
Dario Argento
Dario Argento (; born 7 September 1940) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and film critic, critic. His influential work in the horror film, horror genre during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in the subgenre known as ...
(1980)
* ''
Mia moglie è una strega
''Mia moglie è una strega'' () is a 1980 Italian comedy film directed by Castellano & Pipolo.
Plot
The spirit of Finnicella, a witch burned at the stake, is liberated. She immediately goes on the trail of a descendant of the cardinal who order ...
,'' directed by Castellano & Pipolo (1980)
* ''
Portrait of a Woman, Nude,'' directed by
Nino Manfredi
Saturnino "Nino" Manfredi (22 March 1921 – 4 June 2004) was an Italian actor, voice actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, comedian, singer, author, radio personality and television presenter.
He was one of the most prominent Italian a ...
(1981)
* ''
Talcum Powder
Talc, or talcum, is a clay mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate with the chemical formula Mg3Si4O10(OH)2. Talc in powdered form, often combined with corn starch, is used as baby powder. This mineral is used as a thickening age ...
,'' directed by
Carlo Verdone
Carlo Gregorio Verdone (born 17 November 1950) is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director.
Verdone is best known for his comedic roles in Italian classics, which he also wrote and directed. His career was jumpstarted by his first thre ...
(1982)
* ''
Beyond the Door,'' directed by
Liliana Cavani
Liliana Cavani (born 12 January 1933, Carpi, Italy) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She belongs to a generation of Italian filmmakers from Emilia-Romagna that came into prominence in the 1970s, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier P ...
(1982)
* ''
Grand Hotel Excelsior
''Grand Hotel Excelsior'' is a 1982 Italian comedy film directed by Castellano & Pipolo. The film was a commercial success, being the best grossing film in the season 1982/83 at the Italian box office.
Plot
Four funny characters are working in ...
,'' directed by Castellano & Pipolo (1983)
* ''
Mani di fata
''Mani di fata'' (''Fairy Hands'') is a 1983 Italian comedy film directed by Steno.
Plot
After a sudden dismissal, the engineer Andrea Ferrini, unable to find another job, begins to carry out the household chores. His wife Franca, on the contra ...
'', directed by
Steno (1983)
* ''Sapore di mare 2 – Un anno dopo,'' directed by Bruno Cortini (1983)
* ''
Vediamoci chiaro
''Vediamoci chiaro'' (''Let's See It Clear'') is a 1984 Italian comedy film directed by Luciano Salce.
The author Enrico Giacovelli referred to the film as "a kind of '' Scent of a Woman'' but more ambiguous, midway between Luigi Pirandello's '' H ...
,'' directed by Luciano Salce (1984)
* ''Giovanni Senzapensieri'', Marco Colli (1986)
* ''
Compagni di scuola'', Carlo Verdone (1988)
* ''
Il volpone
''Il volpone'' is a 1988 Italian comedy film directed in by Maurizio Ponzi, inspired by Ben Jonson's comedy with the same name. The film stars Enrico Montesano, Enrico Maria Salerno and Paolo Villaggio.
Plot
Set in the Ligurian Riviera during ...
'', directed by
Maurizio Ponzi
Maurizio Ponzi (born 8 May 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and cinema critic.
Born in Rome, he wrote cinema reviews in several Italian magazines during the early 1960s. He worked as assistant director in Pier Paolo Pasolini's e ...
(1988)
* ''SoloMetro'', directed by Marco Cucurnia (2007)
* ''My Father Jack'' (2016)
* ''Attesa e Cambiamenti'' (2016)
Discography
Singles
* "Quale appuntamento/Messaggio Personale" –
Dischi Ricordi
Dischi Ricordi is an Italian record company founded on by and Guido Crepax, active from 1958 to 1994.
History
Dischi Ricordi had its seat in Milan (Via Giovanni Berchet, 2). In 1994, the company was bought by BMG, who acquired the catalog w ...
(1981)
References
External links
*
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1953 births
Actresses from Rome
Italian film actresses
Italian television actresses
Italian film producers
Italian screenwriters
Living people
David di Donatello winners
Nastro d'Argento winners
Italian women film directors
Film directors from Rome
Italian people of Hungarian descent
Italian people of British descent