Eleonora Giorgi
Acting • Born 1953-10-21 – Died 2025-03-03
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
52 credits
A Spiral of Mist
Movie • 1977
Lidia
Born Winner
Movie • 1976
Marzia
Taste of the Sea 2: One Year Later
Movie • 1983
Tea
Talcum Powder
Movie • 1982
Nadia Vandelli
Velvet Hands
Movie • 1979
Tilli
Grand Hotel Excelsior
Movie • 1982
Ilde Vivaldi
Inferno
Movie • 1980
Sara
The Big Fox
Movie • 1988
Francesca Corvino
Appassionata
Movie • 1974
Nicola
Magic Touch
Movie • 1983
Franca Ferrini
To Forget Venice
Movie • 1979
Claudia
Compagni di scuola
Movie • 1988
Valeria Donati
Portrait of a Nude Woman
Movie • 1981
Laura / Riri
My Wife is a Witch
Movie • 1980
Finnicella
The Three Musketeers of the West
Movie • 1973
Lover in Opening Scene
Heart of a Dog
Movie • 1976
Zina
Story of a Cloistered Nun
Movie • 1973
Carmela Simoni
Beyond the Door
Movie • 1982
Nina
To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
Movie • 1974
Angela
Let's Make It Clear
Movie • 1984
Eleonora Bauer
SoloMetro
Movie • 2007
Elvira Alvari
Smell of Flesh
Movie • 1975
Mariuccia, daughter of Raffaele
Bekim Fehmiu
Movie • 2023
Herself
A Man on His Knees
Movie • 1979
Lucia Peralta
Don't Shoot on Children
Movie • 1978
Ilda
The Kiss
Movie • 1974
Elena Vergani
La traversata
Movie • 1976
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Young, Violent, Dangerous
Movie • 1976
Lea
Morte di una Strega
Movie • 1996
Pina Acciai
And Agnes Chose to Die
Movie • 1976
Vandina
Ça fait tilt
Movie • 1978
Sylvia
Suggestionata
Movie • 1978
Anna
Attesa e cambiamenti
Movie • 2016
Madre di Gianni
Steno
Movie • 2022
Carefree Giovanni
Movie • 1986
Claire
Ready for Anything
Movie • 1977
Anna
The Sex Machine
Movie • 1975
Piera
Attesa e cambiamenti
Movie • 2016
Gianni's mother
The Family Jumble
Movie • 2017
Nonna Fiore
My Father Jack
Movie • 2016
Roma
Movie • 1972
Motorbike Rider (uncredited)
The Black Belly of the Tarantula
Movie • 1971
Maid in beauty parlor
Safari Rally
Movie • 1978
Lucille Davis
Notti e nebbie
Movie • 1984
Magda
Addio e Ritorno
Movie • 1996
Carlo!
Movie • 2013
Self
Uno di noi
TV • 1996
Yesterday - Vacanze al mare
TV • 1985
Susy Armani
TV Story Superstar
TV • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Father Matteo
TV • 2000
Amelie Rosario
The Cesaronis
TV • 2006
Iva Zavattini
Lo zio d'America
TV • 2002
Beatrice Ricciardi