Elena Cotta (born 19 August 1931) is an Italian stage, film and television actress.

Life and career

Born in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

, at a young age Cotta won a scholarship to attend the

Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico (translation: Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts) is a national drama school in Rome, Italy. Founded in 1936 by the theatrical theorist, critic, and writer Silvio D'Amico, the ac ...

; after just one year she quit the Academy to enter the stage company "La compagnia dei giovani". In 1975, she founded her own company together with her husband,

Carlo Alighiero Carlo Alighiero, stage name of Carlo Animali (2 February 1927 – 11 September 2021) was an Italian actor, director, and playwright. Biography Animali was born on 2 February 1927 in Ostra. After attending the Brera Academy and the Accademia N ...

. Cotta made her film debut in 1951, in '' Miracolo a Viggiù''. In 2000, she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress at AFI award and FCCA Award for her performance in Kate Woods' '' Looking for Alibrandi''. In 2013, at 82 years old, she won the

Volpi Cup The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...

for

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for her performance in '' A Street in Palermo'', in which she played an old and stubborn Albanian woman.

Partial filmography

* '' Your Hands on My Body'' (1970) * '' Looking for Alibrandi'' (2000) * ''

The Last Fashion Show ''The Last Fashion Show'' ( it, Sotto il vestito niente – L'ultima sfilata, lit=Nothing underneath: the last fashion show) is a 2011 Italian giallo-thriller film directed by Carlo Vanzina Carlo Vanzina (13 March 1951 – 8 July 2018) was an I ...

'' (2011) * '' A Street in Palermo'' (2013) * '' Loro'' (2018) * '' The Man Without Gravity'' (2019) * '' Yara'' (2021)

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* 1931 births Living people Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico alumni Actresses from Milan Italian film actresses Italian stage actresses Italian television actresses Volpi Cup for Best Actress winners {{Italy-actor-stub