Nicoletta Elmi (born 13 February 1964) is an Italian former actress. She appeared in many films in the 1970s as a child actress, but also appeared in several roles in adulthood in the 1980s.Nicoletta Elmi, British Film Institute, retrieved 20 February 2021 She is known to genre film audiences for her role in several giallo and horror films.
Career She is best known for (but not limited to) a series of roles as a child in Italian horror films, especially the giallo subgenre.Nicoletta Elmi, Binged, retrieved 20 February 2021 Her film career started in 1969 with an uncredited appearance in Le Sorelle (Italian for The Sisters), followed later in the same year by an appearance as Rosy in Ettore Maria Fizzarotti's musicarello Il suo nome è Donna Rosa (Italian for Her Name is Donna Rosa),Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film: Tutti i film italiani dal 1960 al 1969, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia, Mario Pecorari, 2007, p.46, Gremese, a role she reprised the following year in the sequel Mezzanotte d'amore (Italian for Midnight of love).Mezzanotte d'amore (1970) Cast, Movieplayer.it, retrieved 16 March 2021 In 1971, she made an uncredited appearance as the little girl at the table in Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice.Morte a Venezia, British Film Institute, retrieved 21 March 2021 In 1971, she made an uncredited appearance as the unnamed daughter of Renata and Albert (Claudine Auger and Luigi Pistilli respectively) in Mario Bava's A Bay of Blood.A Bay of Blood, British Film Institute, retrieved 4 March 2021 Also in 1971, she made another uncredited appearance as Mary, the daughter of the main characters Salvatore and Carmela Lo Coco in Steno's Gang War (Cose di Cosa Nostra in the Italian release).Cose di Cosa Nostra, il Davinotti, retrieved 27 March 2021 In 1972, she played the role of Gretchen Hummel in another Mario Bava film, Baron Blood.American International Pictures: A Filmography, Robert Ottoson, 1985, p.220, Garland, In the 1972 release Who Saw Her Die?, directed by Aldo Lado and Vittorio De Sisti, she played Roberta (the one that dies, to which the title refers), the daughter of George Lazenby's character Franco Serpieri.Revisiting Space: Space and Place in European Cinema, Wendy Ellen Everett, Axel Goodbody (eds.), 2005, p.121, Peter Lang, In 1973, she made an uncredited appearance as the character Virginia in Luciano Salce's comedy Io e lui (Italian for Me and him).Io e lui, il Davinotti, retrieved 22 April 2021 In 1974, she played the role of Marika/Monica, Baron Frankenstein's daughter, in Flesh For Frankenstein.3-D Movies: A History and Filmography of Stereoscopic Cinema, R.M. Hayes, 1998, p.186, McFarland, Incorporated, In 1975, she played the character Paula (Paola in the Italian release) in Luigi Bazzoni's Footprints on the Moon,FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON:IL VIAGGIO NELLA FOLLIA DI LUIGI BAZZONI E GLI “ALTRI” (in Italian), Filippo Kulberg Taub the same year, she appeared in the role of Olga in Dario Argento's Deep Red.Deep Red (1975), AllMovie.com, retrieved 3 March 2021Italian Horror Film Directors, Louis Paul, 8 June 2015, p.64, McFarland, Incorporated, In 1975, she played the titular role in Massimo Dallamano's The Night Child (also known as The Cursed Medallion).Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979, Roberto Curti, 11 September 2017, p.145-146, McFarland, Incorporated, The final film of the first segment of her career was Aldo Scavarda's only film as a director, the World War II drama Stream Line (La linea del fiume was the Italian title), in which she played Graziella Torretti, acting alongside Philippe Leroy and John Hurt.Stream Line cast, Mubi.com, retrieved 3 April 2021
After a career break during her teenage years, she went on to appear in several film and TV roles as an adult, including a return to the horror genre in Lamberto Bava's Demons in 1985.Nicoletta Elmi, Metacritic, retrieved 20 February 2021Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1995, Leonard Maltin, September 1994, p.320, Penguin, However, the previous year, she appeared in two comedies: the Carlo Vanzina-directed romantic comedy Amarsi un po'... in the role of Amanda Orselli, alongside Tahnee Welch and Virna Lisi,Amarsi un po'..., FilmAffinity, retrieved 2 March 2021 and the Claudio Risi-directed Windsurf - Il vento nelle mani (Italian for The wind in his hands) in which she played the character of Alice, again acting with Philippe Leroy, with whom she had appeared in Stream Line.Windsurf Il vento nelle mani, British Film Institute, retrieved 7 April 2021 From 1987 to 1988, she played the part of Benedetta Valentini in the TV series I ragazzi della 3ª C, which was also directed by Claudio Risi, with whom she had worked on Windsurf three years previously. Following this, she quit acting to become a speech therapist.
Filmography Cinema Le Sorelle, 1969 Il suo nome è Donna Rosa, 1969 Mezzanotte d'amore, 1970 Death in Venice, 1971 A Bay of Blood, directed by Mario Bava (1971) Who Saw Her Die?, 1971 Gang War, 1971 Baron Blood, directed by Mario Bava (1972) Io e lui, 1973 Flesh For Frankenstein, directed by Paul Morrissey (1974) Deep Red, directed by Dario Argento (1975) Footprints on the Moon, 1975 The Cursed Medallion, 1976 Stream Line, 1976 Amarsi un po', 1984 Windsurf - Il vento nelle mani, 1984 Demons, directed by Lamberto Bava, produced by Dario Argento (1985)
Television I ragazzi della 3ª C - TV series, as Benedetta Valentini (1987-1988)
References
External links
Nicoletta Elmi at AllMovie.com Nicoletta Elmi at Turner Classic Movies database (not available in some regions)