The actress Antonella Lualdi died, she was 92 years old

She died at the age of 92 Antonella Lualdi, one of the few actresses symbol of the golden years of Italian cinema still alive. Lualdi was hospitalized in a hospital outside Rome, as confirmed to Ansa by his brother Carlo.

Born in Beirut in 1931 to an Italian father and a Greek mother, Antoinette De Pascale, this is her real name, she achieved success very young, at only 19 years old, thanks to the film young lady, directed by Mario Mattoli. Just two years later it was the turn of Songs on the streetson the set of which he met his colleague Franco Interlenghi, whom she will marry in 1955 and to whom she will remain linked until his death in 2015. Two daughters, Star And Antonella, also actresses, a long and successful career for Lualdi, who unlike other colleagues has always kept away from gossip.

Among the actresses of her generation she has always been more than acclaimed, as well as her peers Lucia Bosè, Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren. The pinnacle of success was in the fifties, protagonist of films such as Miracle in Viggiù by Luigi Giachino, He made 13 by Carlo Manzoni e The coat Of Alberto Lattuada, taken from a story by Gogol. To direct it, also many other famous names of the direction, from Hector Scola to Roberto Rossellini, until Carlo Lizzaniwho wanted her for Chronicles of Little Loverssuccess of 1954 based on the homonymous novel by Vasco Pratolini.

In Antonella Lualdi’s career there was no lack of music and television. Among the most famous participations, the one in the French television series Commissioner Cordier, in 71 episodes aired from 1992 to 2007 (where the actress played the wife of the protagonist). Never over the top, discreet, with an authentic and unique beauty, the actress was a true lady of Italian cinema, fully experienced in her most intense and evocative period, unforgettable also thanks to artists like her.