Alida Valli

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1921-05-31 (85 years old)

Deathday

2006-04-22

Place of Birth

Pola, Istria, Italy [now Pula, Istria, Croatia]

Alida Valli

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.

Acting

1949

The Third Man

as Anna Schmidt

1937

I Was to Blame

as Lauretta

1976

1900

as Signora Pioppi

1973

1979

Luna

as Giuseppe's Mother

1960

1999

The Sweet Sounds of Life

as Sofia's grandmother

1947

The Paradine Case

as Mrs. Paradine

1976

The Cassandra Crossing

as Mrs. Chadwick

1980

Towards Zero

as Lady Camilla Tressilian

1957

Il Grido

as Irma

1996

Fatal Frames

as Countess Alessandra Mirafiori

1979

Killer Nun

as Mother Superior

1967

Oedipus Rex

as Merope

1954

Senso

as La Contessa Livia Serpieri

1948

The Miracle of the Bells

as Olga Treskovna

1980

Inferno

as Carol

1987

1972

Indian Summer

as Marcella Abati - Vanina's mother

1963

Ophélia

as Claudia Lesurf

1958

The Night Heaven Fell

as Aunt Florentine

1962

Homage at Siesta Time

as Constance Fischer

1953

We, the Women

as Alida (segment "Alida Valli")

1975

Flesh of the Orchid

as la folle de la gare

1977

Berlinguer: I Love You

as Mamma di Mario

1950

The White Tower

as Carla Alton (as Valli)

1974

1950

Walk Softly, Stranger

as Elaine Corelli

2012

1978

The Perfect Crime

as Lady Clementine De Revere

1960

The Dialogue of the Carmelites

as Mother Thérèse of Saint-Augustin

1963

The Paper Man

as La Italiana

1957

The Wide Blue Road

as Rosetta, the Wife

1974

Tender Dracula

as Héloïse

1991

1963

The Castilian

as Reina Teresa

1970

1941

Schoolgirl Diary

as Anna Campolmi

1941

Piccolo mondo antico

as Luisa Maironi

1978

Dirty World

as Teresina

1951

Last Meeting

as Lina Castelli

1957

1954

The Stranger's Hand

as Roberta Gleukovitch

1961

The Happy Thieves

as Duchess Blanca

1940

Beyond Love

as Vanina Vanini

1975

The House of Exorcism

as Countess (archive footage)

1953

The Lovers of Toledo

as Doña Inés de Arévalo Blas

1942

We the Living, Part Two

as Kira Argounova

1985

1949

The Za-Bum Circus

as (segments "Gelosia", "Il postino" and "Galop finale al circo")

1999

The Sweet Sounds of Life

as Nonna di Sofia

1943

I pagliacci

as Giulia

1995

A Month by the Lake

as Signora Fascioli

1981

Illa - Punto d'osservazione

as Maria Dal Ponte

1943

T'amerò sempre

as Adriana Rosé

1943

Apparizione

as Andreina

1953

The World Condemns Them

as Renata Giustini

1946

Eugenia Grandet

as Eugenia Grandet

1960

1945

1945

Life Begins Anew

as Patrizia Martini

1960

The Gigolo

as Agathe

2021

1988

1937

Il feroce saladino

as Dora Florida / La bella Sulamita

1939

1939

1939

Ballo al castello

as Greta Larsen

1977

A Simple Heart

as Mrs. Obin

2002

Angel of Death

as Doña Catalina

1962

Disorder

as Carlo's Mother

1965

Black Humor

as The Widow - segment 3 'La cornacchia'

1991

La bocca

as Countess Bianca Rospigliosi

1982

Forbidden Dreams

as Madre di Marina

1959

Signed, Arsène Lupin

as Aurélia Valéano

1961

The Long Absence

as Thérèse Langlois

1976

2001

Probably Love

as Herself

1979

Zoo zéro

as Yvonne, la mère

1993

The Long Silence

as Carla's Mother

2001

Suspiria 25th Anniversary

as Self (archive footage)

1982

Aspern

as Juliana Barther

1964

The Other Woman

as Annabel

1940

Manon Lescaut

as Manon Lescaut

1977

Suspiria

as Miss Tanner

1994

The Final Scoop

as Caterina, Andrea's mother

1959

The Sons of Medea

as Medea / Alida Valli

2017

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

1942

We the Living, Part One

as Kira Argounova

1941

Luce nelle tenebre

as Marina Ferri

1938

1975

1942

Le due orfanelle

as Enrichetta

1940

2008

Come diventai Alida Valli

as Self (Archive)

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