Alida Valli
Gender: Female
Born: 31st May 1921
Died: 22nd April 2006
Nationality: Croatia
TV programs: The Third Man
Movies: Eyes Without a Face, Inferno, Suspiria, The Paradine Case, The Third Man, Piccolo mondo antico, Senso, Walk Softly, Stranger, La Luna, Il grido, Siamo donne, The Long Absence, 1900, The Night Heaven Fell, The White Tower, Edipo re, The Spider's Stratagem, Berlinguer I Love You, Angel of Death, The Wide Blue Road, Stasera niente di nuovo, Life Begins Anew, Schoolgirl Diary, Catene invisibili, The Miracle of the Bells, Ophelia, Il lungo silenzio, Cher Victor, The Paper Man, Disorder, La caduta degli angeli ribelli, Silent Love, A Month by the Lake, The Cassandra Crossing, Killer Nun, Lisa and the Devil, Le jupon rouge, Lola, The Castilian, Il mondo le condanna, La prima notte di quiete, La Chair de l'orchidée
Alida Valli (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico, Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case, Carol Reed's The Third Man, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido, Luchino Visconti's Senso, Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 and Dario Argento's Suspiria.
Valli was born in Pola, Istria, Italy (today Pula, Croatia). Her paternal grandfather was the Baron Luigi Altenburger (also: Altempurger), an Austrian-Italian from Trento, a descendant of the Counts d'Arco; her paternal grandmother was Elisa Tomasi from Trento, a cousin of the Roman senator Ettore Tolomei. Valli's mother, Silvia Oberecker della Martina, born in Pola, was the daughter of Felix Oberecker (also: Obrekar) from Laibach, Austria (now Ljubljana, Slovenia), her mother was Virginia della Martina from Pola, Istria (then part of Austria). Valli's maternal granduncle, Rodolfo, was a close friend of Gabriele d'Annunzio. Valli was christened Baroness Alida Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. She also gained the titles Dr.h.c. of the III. University of
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