Eleonora Vallone (born 1 February 1955) is an Italian actress, model and TV-personality. Born in Rome, the daughter of actors

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and Elena Varzi, she made her film debut in 1979 in the "

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" '' Gardenia'', and later starred in several genre films, also in the more ambitious

Alberto Bevilacqua Alberto Bevilacqua (27 June 1934 – 9 September 2013) was an Italian writer and filmmaker. Leonardo Sciascia, an Italian writer and politician, read Bevilacqua's first collection of stories, ''The Dust on the Grass'' (1955), was impressed and ...

drama film ''

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''. In 1981 she hosted the

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alongside

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. In the same years she appeared nude in several men's magazines such as ''

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'' and the Italian edition of ''

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''. A pioneer and teacher of water gymnastics, Eleonora Vallone founded the first Italian school for

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instructors, and she patented the method "GymNuoto". She also wrote three books about waterobics, "GymNuoto", "GymVasca" and "GymSwim".

References

External links

Official site
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vallone, Eleonora Living people Italian film actresses Italian female models 1955 births Italian television actresses Italian television personalities Actresses from Rome People of Calabrian descent