Nicoletta Elmi (born 13 February 1964) is an Italian film actress. She appeared in many films in the 1970s as a child actress, but also appeared in several roles in adulthood in the 1980s.

Career

She is best known for (but was not limited to) a series of roles as a child in Italian horror films, especially the

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subgenre. Her film career started in 1969 with an uncredited appearance in ''Le Sorelle'' (Italian for ''The Sisters''), followed later in the same year by an appearance as Rosy in

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''Il suo nome è Donna Rosa'' (Italian for ''Her Name is Donna Rosa''), a role she reprised the following year in the sequel ''Mezzanotte d'amore'' (Italian for ''Midnight of love''). In 1971 she made an uncredited appearance as the little girl at the table in

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's ''Death in Venice''. In 1971 she made an uncredited appearance as the unnamed daughter of Renata and Albert (

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and

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respectively) in

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's ''A Bay of Blood''. Also in 1971 she made another uncredited appearance as Mary, the daughter of the main characters Salvatore and Carmela Lo Coco in Steno's ''Gang War'' (''Cose di Cosa Nostra'' in the Italian release). In 1972 she played the role of Gretchen Hummel in another Mario Bava film, ''Baron Blood''. In the 1972 release ''Who Saw Her Die?'', directed by

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and Vittorio De Sisti, she played Roberta (the one that dies, to which the title refers), the daughter of

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's character Franco Serpieri. In 1973 she made an uncredited appearance as the character Virginia in

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's comedy ''Io e lui'' (Italian for ''Me and him''). In 1974 she played the role of Marika/Monica, Baron Frankenstein's daughter, in ''Flesh For Frankenstein''. In 1975 she played the character Paula (Paola in the Italian release) in Luigi Bazzoni's ''Footprints on the Moon'', the same year she appeared in the role of Olga in Dario Argento's ''Deep Red''. In 1976 she played the titular role in

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's '' The Night Child'' (also known as ''The Cursed Medallion''). The final film of the first segment of her career was Aldo Scavarda's only film as a director, the

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drama ''Stream Line'' (''La linea del fiume'' was the Italian title), in which she played Graziella Torretti, acting alongside Philippe Leroy and

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. After a career break during her teenage years, she went on to appear in several film and TV roles as an adult, including a return to the horror genre in Lamberto Bava's ''Demons'' in 1985. However, the previous year she appeared in two comedies: the

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-directed romantic comedy ''Amarsi un po'...'' in the role of Amanda Orselli, alongside

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and

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, and the Claudio Risi-directed ''Windsurf - Il vento nelle mani'' (Italian for ''The wind in his hands'') in which she played the character of Alice, again acting with Philippe Leroy, with whom she had appeared in ''Stream Line''. From 1987 to 1988 she played the part of Benedetta Valentini in the TV series

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, which was also directed by Claudio Risi, with whom she had worked on ''Windsurf'' three years previously. Following this, she quit acting to become a speech therapist.
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Filmography

Cinema

*'' Le Sorelle'', 1969 *'' Il suo nome è Donna Rosa'', 1969 *'' Mezzanotte d'amore'', 1970 *''

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'', 1971 *''

A Bay of Blood ''A Bay of Blood'' (Italian: ''Ecologia del delitto'', lit. "Ecology of Crime", later retitled ''Reazione a catena'' it. "Chain Reaction" (also known as ''Carnage'', ''Twitch of the Death Nerve'' and ''Blood Bath'') is a 1971 Italian giallo sla ...

'', directed by Mario Bava (1971) *'' Who Saw Her Die?'', 1971 *'' Gang War'', 1971 *''

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'', directed by Mario Bava (1972) *'' Io e lui'', 1973 *''

Flesh For Frankenstein ''Flesh for Frankenstein'' is a 1973 horror film written and directed by Paul Morrissey. It stars Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Monique van Vooren and Arno Juerging. Interiors were filmed at Cinecittà in Rome by a crew of Italian filmmakers. In ...

'', directed by Paul Morrissey (1974) *'' Deep Red'', directed by Dario Argento (1975) *'' Footprints on the Moon'', 1975 *'' The Cursed Medallion'', 1976 *'' Stream Line'', 1976 *'' Amarsi un po''', 1984 *''

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'', 1984 *'' Demons'', directed by Lamberto Bava, produced by Dario Argento (1985)

Television

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'' - TV series, as Benedetta Valentini (1987-1988)

References

External links

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