Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1904-12-06 (44 years old)
Deathday
1948-10-21
Place of Birth
Venice, Italy
Also known As
Элисса Ланди
Elisabeth Marie Christine von Kühnelt
Elissa Landi (December 6, 1904 – October 21, 1948) was an Italian born actress who was popular in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s. Rumoured to be a descendant of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, she was noted for her aristocratic bearing. Born Elisabeth Marie Christine Kühnelt in Venice, Landi was raised in Austria and educated in England. Her first ambition was to be a writer, and she wrote her first novel at the age of twenty. She would return to writing during lulls in her acting career. She joined the Oxford Repertory Company at an early age, appearing in many British and American stage successes. During the 1920s she appeared i...
1928
as Nell
1936
as Selma Forrest Landis
1934
as Mercedes
1932
as Evelyn Beresford
1932
as Mercia
1935
as Lisa Della Robbia
1931
as Marya Kalish
1936
as Peter Dean
1933
as Marie
1937
as Helen Trent
1931
as Margot Rande
1928
as Kersti
1935
as Princess Aurore
1934
as Joan Pemberton
1937
as Herself - the Hostess
1933
as Eve Chilcote
1933
as Vicki Meredith
1935
as Jennifer Gage
1933
as Antiope
1927
as Alice Cranston
1932
as Myra Carson
1931
as Lila Banning
1931
as Carla
1936
as Lady Cleone Meredith
1943
as Dr. Royce Lee Stockman
1932
as Laura Ramsey
1928
as Françoise-Marie / La Monita
1930
as Binnie
1930
as Anthea Mary Dayre
1930
as Korah Hurley / Collette
1934
as Zita Marishka
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