Elsa Martinelli
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1935-01-30 (82 years old)
Deathday
2017-07-08
Place of Birth
Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy
Also known As
Elsa Tia
Elsa Martinelli
Biography
Elsa Martinelli (3 August 1932 or 30 January 1935, according to different sources) was an Italian actress and former fashion model. Born Elisa Tia in Grosseto, Tuscany, she moved to Rome with her family and in 1953 was discovered by Roberto Capucci who introduced her to the world of fashion. She became a model and began playing small roles in films. She appeared in Claude Autant-Lara's Le Rouge et le noir (1954), but her first important film role came the following year with The Indian Fighter opposite Kirk Douglas. Douglas claims to have spotted her on a magazine cover and hired her for his production company, Bryna Productions. In 1956 she...
Acting
1962
as Hilda
1968
as Vic Shaw
1968
as Self (archive footage)
1970
as Elsa
1962
as Anna Maria 'Dallas' D'Allesandro
1969
as Maria, Woman on Venetian Bridge
1967
as Pretty Woman
1963
as Gloria Gritti
1965
as Olga
1959
as Anna
1960
as Gisèle d'Angoulême
1960
as Fulvia
1955
as Onahti
1960
as Georgia Monteverdi
1985
as Carla Razzi
1967
as Domitilla (segment "Nuits romaines")
1968
as Belle Starr
1968
as Annie
1963
as Anna
1957
as Maria Antonelli
1992
as Carla the Agent
1956
as Elena
1967
as Claudia
1962
as Antonella Massimo
1969
as Carla Nervi
1993
as (archive)
1965
as Sylvia
1964
as Mathilde
1956
as Donatella
1954
as (uncredited)
1967
as Laureen
1966
as Rallye driver
1965
as The Woman with the Whip
1965
as Juliette
1959
as Mascha
1969
as Gilberte de Baer
1968
as Livia
1958
as Lucia
1963
as Gisèle d'Angoulême
1971
as Inés de Suárez
1957
as Manuela Hunt
1979
as Annelise
1962
as Rosaria
1961
as Lucile
1965
as Sonia
1960
as Mirella
1969
as Martine
1960
as L'indossatrice romana
1976
as Zobeida
1959
as Doriana
1971
as Annie
1959
as Diana
1959
as Kathy Sands
1969
as Jane Bleeker
1966
as Self
2003
as Self
1953
as Anna (segment "L'indossatrice")
2015
as Self
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