Eleonora Giorgi
Born: 1953-10-21 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
Died: 2025-03-03
Known For: Acting
Biography
Eleonora Giorgi (born 21 October 1953) is an Italian actress. 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. Domenico Paolella's Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973), an important nunsploitation, marked her film debut, at age eighteen. She then took part in Il bacio (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 gaine her the public acclaim. Roles in movies like Franco Brusati's To Forget Venice (1979), Dario Argento's Inferno (1980), Nino Manfredi's Nudo di donna (1981), and Liliana Cavani's Beyond Obsession (1982) are some of her most known and remarkable dramatic performances but in the beginning of the eighties, Giorgi decides to rejoin comedy. She's near Adriano Celentano in Mani di velluto and Grand hotel excelsior; for her performance in Carlo Verdone's Borotalco (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.
Filmography
2023
- Bekim Fehmiu as Herself
2022
2020
- TV Story Superstar as Self (archive footage)
2017
- The Family Jumble as Nonna Fiore
2016
- My Father Jack
- Attesa e cambiamenti as Madre di Gianni
2013
- Carlo! as Self
2009
- L'ultima estate ... (Director)
2007
- SoloMetro as Elvira Alvari
2006
- The Cesaronis as Iva Zavattini
2003
- Uomini & donne, amori & bugie ... (Director)
2002
- Lo zio d'America as Beatrice Ricciardi
2000
- Father Matteo as Amelie Rosario
1996
- Addio e Ritorno
- Morte di una Strega as Pina Acciai
- Uno di noi
1988
- Compagni di scuola as Valeria Donati
- The Big Fox as Francesca Corvino
1986
- Carefree Giovanni as Claire
1985
- Yesterday - Vacanze al mare as Susy Armani
1984
- Let's Make It Clear as Eleonora Bauer
- Notti e nebbie as Magda
1983
- Magic Touch as Franca Ferrini
- Taste of the Sea 2: One Year Later as Tea
1982
- Talcum Powder as Nadia Vandelli
- Grand Hotel Excelsior as Ilde Vivaldi
- Beyond the Door as Nina
1981
- Portrait of a Nude Woman as Laura / Riri
1980
- My Wife is a Witch as Finnicella
- Inferno as Sara
1979
- To Forget Venice as Claudia
- A Man on His Knees as Lucia Peralta
- Velvet Hands as Tilli
1978
- Suggestionata as Anna
- Don't Shoot on Children as Ilda
- Safari Rally as Lucille Davis
- Ça fait tilt as Sylvia
1977
- A Spiral of Mist as Lidia
- Ready for Anything as Anna
1976
- La traversata as -
- And Agnes Chose to Die as Vandina
- Heart of a Dog as Zina
- Born Winner as Marzia
- Young, Violent, Dangerous as Lea
1975
- Smell of Flesh as Mariuccia, daughter of Raffaele
- The Sex Machine as Piera
1974
- Appassionata as Nicola
- To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday as Angela
- The Kiss as Elena Vergani
1973
- The Three Musketeers of the West as Lover in Opening Scene
- Story of a Cloistered Nun as Carmela Simoni
1972
- Roma as Motorbike Rider (uncredited)
1971
- The Black Belly of the Tarantula as Maid in beauty parlor