Antonella Lualdi

Antonella Lualdi (born Antonietta de Pascale, 6 July 1931 – 10 August 2023) was an Italian actress and singer. She appeared in many Italian and French films in the 1950s and 1960s, notably in Claude Autant-Lara's film The Red and the Black in 1954, opposite Gérard Philipe.
Life and career
Lualdi began her career in 1949, after having won a contest for new talents of the cinema magazine Hollywood, in which she was presented as "Signorina X" ("Miss X"), inviting the readers to choose her stage name.
After having starred with him in several films, she married Italian actor Franco Interlenghi in 1955; the couple had two daughters, Stella and Antonellina, an actress in her own right.
In 1974 she debuted in France as a singer with some success and critical acclaim, then she also debuted on stage with the comedy Le Moulin de la Galette, with which she toured across several European countries.
Antonella Lualdi died on 10 August 2023, at the age of 92.
Selected filmography
Prince of Foxes (1949) - (uncredited)
Little Lady (1949) - Maria Censi
Songs in the Streets (1950) - Anna
The Last Sentence (1951) - Maria, la nipote di Santini
Abbiamo vinto! (1951) - Elsa Nardecchi
Miracle in Viggiù (1951) - Antonella
His Last Twelve Hours (1951) - Daniela Valsetti
The Two Sergeants (1951)
Ha fatto tredici (1951) - Mirella
Repentance (1952)
The Overcoat (1952) - Vittoria
Adorable Creatures (1952) - Catherine Michaud
I figli non si vendono (1952) - Daniela
Three Forbidden Stories (1952) - Anna Maria (Second segment)
Il romanzo della mia vita (1952) - Maria De Marchis
The Piano Tuner Has Arrived (1952) - Giulietta Narducci
Cats and Dogs (1952) - Lia
Solo per te Lucia (1952)
The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1953) - Beatrice di Rionero
Perdonami! (1953) - Anna Gerace
The Daughter of the Regiment (1953) - Tony (Italian version)
Cavalcade of Song (1953) - La dirimpettaia del quinto piano
The Story of William Tell (1953) - Anna Walden
What Scoundrels Men Are! (1953) - Mariuccia
Casta Diva (1954) - Maddalena Fumaroli
Mid-Century Loves (1954) - Carla (segment "Napoli 1943")
Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954) - Milena
Pietà per chi cade (1954) - Bianca Savelli
Papà Pacifico (1954) - Luisa Ceccacci
Avanzi di galera (1954) - Giovanna, the nurse
The Red and the Black (1954) - Mathilde de La Mole
Le signorine dello 04 (1955) - Maria Teresa
Wild Love (1955) - Luisa
Andrea Chénier (1955) - Madeleine de Coigny
Wild Love (1956) - Adriana Latini - la parrucchiera
Altair (1956) - Elena
I giorni più belli (1956) - Giulia
Fathers and Sons (1957) - Giulia Blasi
Méfiez-vous fillettes (1957) - Dany Dumont
La cenicienta y Ernesto (1957) - Julia
Young Husbands (1958) - Lucia
The Sky Burns (1958) - Laura Sandri
Mon coquin de père (1958) - Maria
One Life (1958) - Gilberte de Fourcheville
Polikuschka (1958) - Irina
Délit de fuite (1959) - Lucille Aitken
Bad Girls Don't Cry (1959) - Supplizia
Match contre la mort (1959) - Annie Lourmel
Web of Passion (1959) - Léda
Silver Spoon Set (1960) - Elsa Foresi
Run with the Devil (1960) - Donata
Appuntamento a Ischia (1960) - Mirella Argenti
The Mongols (1961) - Amina
The Shortest Day (1962)
My Son, the Hero (1962)
Disorder (1962)
Son of the Circus (1963)
The Swindlers (1963)
100 Horsemen (1964)
Let's Talk About Women (1964)
Su e giù (1965)
The Sea Pirate (1966)
How to Seduce a Playboy (1966)
Massacre in the Black Forest (1967)
The Column (1968)
Ragan (1968)
Un caso di coscienza (1970)
Vincent, François, Paul and the Others (1974)
Cross Shot (1976)
Zero in condotta (1983)
A Thorn in the Heart (1986)
Who Wants to Kill Sara? (1992)
Nefertiti (1994)
Awards
Premio Cinema italiano Anni d'oro. In 2020 Antonella Lualdi received the award for her role in the 1959 movie La notte Brava (Bad Girls Don't Cry), directed by Mauro Bolognini.
References
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1931 births
2023 deaths
Italian film actresses
Italian people of Greek descent
Lebanese emigrants to Italy
Actresses from Beirut
Italian stage actresses
20th-century Italian actresses
20th-century Italian women singers
Musicians from Beirut