Daria Nicolodi (19 June 1950 – 26 November 2020) was an Italian television and film actress and screenwriter.

Early life and career

Daria Nicolodi was born in Florence on 19 June 1950. Her father was a Florentine lawyer and her mother, Fulvia, was a scholar of ancient languages. Her maternal grandfather was composer

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. She moved to Rome in the late 1960s. In 1970, she participated in the television variety show ''Babau'' in four episodes written by

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and Ida Omboni and directed by Vito Molinari. Because of program content deemed outrageous at the time, the show was shelved and only broadcast by

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six years later. In the early 1970s, Nicolodi had some significant work in the cinema and theater under the guidance of

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. Also in the same year, Nicolodi participated in some TV productions, such as the serial story ''Nicotera'', ''Without a Trace'' with

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(1972), ''Portrait of a Veiled Woman'' with Nino Castelnuovo (1975), the drama ''Saturnino Farandola'' with Mariano Rigillo (1978), and ''Rosaura at 10'' (1981). Nicolodi starred in five films directed by Dario Argento between 1975 and 1987: '' Deep Red'' (1975), ''

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'' (1980), ''

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'' (1982), '' Phenomena'' (1985) and ''

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'' (1987). Nicolodi starred in ''Shock'' (1977), the final film of Italian horror auteur

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. After her relationship with Argento ended in 1985, Nicolodi participated in such films as ''Paganini Horror'', ''The Picture of Joy'', ''Macaroni'', ''The End Is Known'', ''Notes of Love'' and in films directed by her daughter

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. In 2007, Nicolodi made a comeback to the cinema, working with her daughter Asia in Dario Argento's '' Mother of Tears'', the sequel to '' Suspiria'' and ''

''.

Personal life

In the early 1970s, she had a relationship with the sculptor Mario Ceroli; they had a daughter, Anna, who was born in 1973 and died in a 1994 car accident. Nicolodi had a professional and romantic relationship with director Dario Argento; they met in 1974 during casting for the film ''Deep Red'', and their daughter

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was born in 1975. They separated in 1985. Asia had a daughter of her own; she named her Anna after her half-sister. Nicolodi died in Rome on 26 November 2020 at the age of 70. The cause of her death has not been publicly disclosed.

Recognition

In 2012, Nicolodi was highlighted in the retrospective ''Argento: Il Cinema Nel Sangue'' at the

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in New York City. The retrospective celebrated the influence of the Argento family on filmmaking in Italy and around the world. It highlighted Nicolodi's contribution to Dario Argento's films as well as that of his father (Salvatore), brother (Claudio) and daughter (

Filmography

References

External links

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Official website
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