Nike Arrighi (born 9 March 1947) is a French
visual artist and former actress, known for roles in several European
horror
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Arts, entertainment, and media
Genres
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** Japanese horror, Japanese horror fiction
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and
art house film
An art film (or arthouse film) is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. It is "intended to be a serious, artistic work, often experimental and not designed for mass appeal", "made primarily f ...
s in the 1960s and 1970s in addition to work in television.
Early life
Daughter of Italian diplomat and former journalist Count Ernesto Arrighi and Australian Eleanor ("Nellie"), daughter of grazier Douglas Cox, Arrighi was raised in the
Vaucluse neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, her family having moved there because her father was the Italian consul. He died when she was young.
Career
Arrighi began her professional career as a fashion model in Paris, then moved to London, where she studied art at the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She played the part of Corinne in ''
The Champions'' (Reply Box No.666 episode, 1967). After a ten-year career in film and television she retired in the early 1970s to return to art, which she had studied as a young woman. Specializing in
copperplate etching
Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other type ...
and oil painting, she won First Prize for Graphic Art at the 1976 Hong Kong Art Biennial.
Personal life
In 1977 she married Prince Paolo
Borghese. They lived in Hong Kong, where he was an engineer, before moving in 1984 to Italy, where she still resides at Palazzo Borghese in
Artena.
[ Her husband died in 1999.]Luciana Arrighi
Luciana Maria Arrighi (born 1940) is a Brazilian-born, Australian-Italian production designer. In 1993, she won an Oscar for Best Art Direction for the film ''Howards End'' (1992), becoming the first Brazilian-born person to win an Oscar. She ...
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Filmography
References
1947 births
Living people
French film actresses
French television actresses
French etchers
People from Nice
French women printmakers
21st-century French women artists
Women etchers
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