Alida Valli
Born: 1921-05-31 in Pola, Istria, Italy [now Pula, Istria, Croatia]
Died: 2006-04-22
Known For: Acting
Biography
Alida Valli (May 31, 1921 – April 22, 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, Ayn Rand's We the Living, Carol Reed's The Third Man, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido, Luchino Visconti's Senso, and Dario Argento's Suspiria.
Filmography
2025
2021
- Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2012
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2008
- Come diventai Alida Valli as Self (Archive)
2002
- Angel of Death as Doña Catalina
2001
- Suspiria 25th Anniversary as Self (archive footage)
- Vino Santo – Es lebe die Liebe, es lebe der Wein as Sveva Salvini
- Probably Love as Herself
1999
- The Sweet Sounds of Life as Sofia's grandmother
1996
- Fatal Frames as Countess Alessandra Mirafiori
1995
- A Month by the Lake as Signora Fascioli
1994
- The Final Scoop as Caterina, Andrea's mother
1993
- Private Crimes as Matilde Pierboni
- The Long Silence as Carla's Mother
1991
- Zitti e mosca as Clara
- Silent Love as Countess Bianca Rospigliosi
1988
- To Our Late Husband as Catarina
1987
- Manuela's Loves as Bacha
1985
- Secrets Secrets as Gina
1982
- Aspern as Juliana Barther
- Forbidden Dreams as Madre di Marina
1981
- The Fall of the Rebel Angels as Bettina
- Season of Peace in Paris
- Illa - Punto d'osservazione as Maria Dal Ponte
1980
- Inferno as Carol
- That House in the Outskirts as Isabel
- Towards Zero as Lady Camilla Tressilian
- The Bailiff of Greifensee as Marianne
1979
- Luna as Giuseppe's Mother
- Killer Nun as Mother Superior
- Zoo zéro as Yvonne, la mère
- Lycanthropus, the Son of the Night
1978
- Dirty World as Teresina
- The Perfect Crime as Lady Clementine De Revere
1977
- Suspiria as Miss Tanner
- Berlinguer: I Love You as Mamma di Mario
- A Simple Heart as Mrs. Obin
1976
- 1900 as Signora Pioppi
- The Cassandra Crossing as Mrs. Chadwick
- The Game of Solitaire as Germaine
1975
- Flesh of the Orchid as la folle de la gare
- The House of Exorcism as Countess (archive footage)
- Cher Victor as Anna
1974
- The Antichrist as Irene
- It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game as Louise
- Tender Dracula as Héloïse
1973
- Lisa and the Devil as Contessa
1972
- Indian Summer as Marcella Abati - Vanina's mother
- Eye in the Labyrinth as Gerda
1970
- The Spider's Stratagem as Draifa
- The Killer Strikes at Dawn as Linda Benson
1967
- Oedipus Rex as Merope, Queen of Corinth
1965
1964
- The Other Woman as Annabel
1963
- The Castilian as Reina Teresa
- The Paper Man as La Italiana
- Ophélia as Claudia Lesurf
- The Getaway Face
1962
- Combat! as Marie
- Disorder as Carlo's Mother
- La Fille du torrent as Livia Boissière
- Homage at Siesta Time as Constance Fischer
- Al otro lado de la ciudad
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Luisa Brabante
- The Happy Thieves as Duchess Blanca
- The Long Absence as Thérèse Langlois
1960
- Eyes Without a Face as Louise
- The Dialogue of the Carmelites as Mother Thérèse of Saint-Augustin
- The Gigolo as Agathe
- Il peccato degli anni verdi as madre di Elena
1959
- Signed, Arsène Lupin as Aurélia Valéano
- The Sons of Medea as Medea / Alida Valli
1958
- The Night Heaven Fell as Aunt Florentine
- L'uomo dai calzoni corti as Carolina
1957
- Il Grido as Irma
- This Angry Age as Claude
- The Wide Blue Road as Rosetta, the Wife
1954
- Senso as La Contessa Livia Serpieri
- The Stranger's Hand as Roberta Gleukovitch
1953
- We, the Women as Alida (segment "Alida Valli")
- The World Condemns Them as Renata Giustini
- The Lovers of Toledo as Doña Inés de Arévalo Blas
1951
- Miracles Only Happen Once as Claudia
- Last Meeting as Lina Castelli
1950
- The White Tower as Carla Alton (as Valli)
- Walk Softly, Stranger as Elaine Corelli
1949
- The Third Man as Anna Schmidt
- The Za-Bum Circus as (segments "Gelosia", "Il postino" and "Galop finale al circo")
1948
- The Miracle of the Bells as Olga Treskovna
1947
- The Paradine Case as Mrs. Paradine
1946
- Eugenia Grandet as Eugenia Grandet
1945
- Life Begins Anew as Patrizia Martini
- Il canto della vita as Giovanna
1943
- Apparizione as Andreina
- I'll Love You Forever as Adriana Rosé
- Laugh Pagliacci as Giulia
1942
- We the Living, Part Two as Kira Argounova
- We the Living, Part One as Kira Argounova
- Stasera niente di nuovo as Maria
- Le due orfanelle as Enrichetta
- Catene invisibili
1941
- Piccolo mondo antico as Luisa Maironi
- Luce nelle tenebre as Marina Ferri
- Schoolgirl Diary as Anna Campolmi
- L'amante segreta
1940
- La prima donna che passa as Gabriella
- Manon Lescaut as Manon Lescaut
- Beyond Love as Vanina Vanini
- Taverna rossa as Susanna Sormani
1939
- You Love Me, I Love You as Vera Fabbri
- Mille lire al mese as Magda
- Ballo al castello as Greta Larsen
1938
- L'amor mio non muore! as Maria D'Alba
- La casa del peccato as Girl
- Il trovatello as Maria
1937
- Il feroce saladino as Dora Florida / La bella Sulamita
- I Was to Blame as Lauretta