Elisa Severi (6 April 1872 – 26 August 1930) was an Italian actress.

Early life

Elisa Severi was born in

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. She trained as an actress in Rome, where she debuted in the 1889-1890 season.

Career

Elisa Severi started as a stage actress. She joined the Drammatica Compagnia Palladini-Talli in 1894, and headed a company with Oreste Calabresi for the 1905-1906 season, with

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as one of the company's other actresses. and became a member of Ettore Berti's Compagnia Stabile Romana in 1912. A reviewer of her stage work called her "una splendida creatura vibrante di passione sentida" (a splendid creature vibrating with sentimental passion). Severi appeared in twenty silent films between 1913 and 1921, among them ''La corsa all'amore'' (1914), ''La contessa Fedra'' (1914), ''Circe moderna'' (1914), ''Il bacio di sirena'' (1915), '' Redemption'' (1919), ''Dopo il suicidio'' (1920), ''L'erma biffronte'' (1920), '' On with the Motley'' (1920), and ''Sublime rinuncia'' (1921).

Personal life

Severi had a son, editor and translator Giorgio Monicelli (1910-1968), whose father was journalist

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. Her son coined the Italian word ''fantascienza'' for the science fiction magazine ''

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''. She died in Rome in 1930, aged 58 years. A park in Ravenna is named for Elisa Severi."A Ravenna arriva piazza Anna Magnani. E altri 28 nuovi nomi per aree verdi del Comune"
''Ravenna Notizie'' (11 December 2013).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Severi, Elisa 1872 births 1930 deaths 19th-century Italian actresses Italian silent film actresses People from Ravenna 20th-century Italian actresses