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ELEONORA GIORGI BIOGRAPHY :
Eleonora Giorgi (21 October 1953 – 3 March 2025) was an Italian actress and film director. Giorgi (left) and Ornella Muti in a scene from the Italian erotic film Appassionata (1974). Giorgi was born in Rome, Italy. Her father was of Italian and English origin. Her mother was of Italian and Hungarian origin. She made her film debut in a minor role in Paolo Cavara’s horror film Black Belly of the Tarantula (1970) and subsequently appeared in nearly fifty films, mostly in prominent roles. She first starred in Domenico Paolella’s Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973), an important nunsploitation, at age eighteen. She then took part in The Kiss, a fantasy drama directed by Mario Lanfranchi, and in erotic comedies such as Salvatore Samperi’s La sbandata (1974), in which she plays near Domenico Modugno and Luciana Paluzzi, Luciano Salce’s Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno (1974), Pasquale Festa Campanile’s The Sex Machine (U.S. title: Love and Energy) (1975) and Gianluigi Calderone’s Appassionata, that definitively gained her the public acclaim. Roles in movies like Franco Brusati’s To Forget Venice (1979), Dario Argento’s Inferno (1980), Nino Manfredi’s Portrait of a Woman, Nude (1981), and Liliana Cavani’s Beyond the Door (1982) are some of her most known and remarkable dramatic performances but in the beginning of the eighties, Giorgi decided to rejoin comedy. She’s near Adriano Celentano in Velvet Hands and Grand Hotel Excelsior; for her performance in Carlo Verdone’s Talcum Powder (1982), she won the Nastro d’Argento award and David di Donatello award for Best Actress. In 2003, Giorgi wrote and directed her first film Uomini & donne, amori & bugie (U.S. title: Love, Lies, Kids… & Dogs), with Ornella Muti. After suffering from pancreatic cancer since late 2023, Giorgi died on March 3, 2025, aged 71.
