Alda Grimaldi Explained

Birth Date:	6 October 1919
Birth Place:	Sampierdarena, Italy
Occupation:	Director and actress

Alda Grimaldi (6 October 1919 – 28 December 2023), known as Dada, was an Italian director and actress who was active from the 1940s to the 1960s.^[1]

Biography

Grimaldi was born in Sampierdarena in 1919. She began her acting career in Turin at the in the 1940s.^[2]

In 1955, Grimaldi sterted working at RAI. The same year, she won a scholarship to attend a directing course at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.^[3]

Grimaldi was among the first women to work as a television director in the state television corporation in the early days of regular broadcasting. She directed, among other things, an episode of the 1958 didactic-theatrical program .^[4]

In 1957, she was awarded the .

She died on 28 December 2023, at the age of 104.^[5]

Personal life

Grimaldi was married to the Turin doctor Giovanni Rubino, who died in 1997.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: 28 December 2023 . Addio ad Alda Grimaldi, la prima regista della tv italiana. Aveva 104 ... . 29 December 2023 . Oggi - Attualità . it.
2. Web site: 29 December 2023 . Addio a "Dada" Grimaldi, prima regista tv. Diresse un giovane Pippo Baudo . 29 December 2023 . Il Torinese . it-IT.
3. Book: Florio, Michele . Le grandi donne del Piemonte . 2001 . D. Piazza . 978-88-7889-143-2 . 226 . it.
4. Book: Grasso, Aldo . Enciclopedia della televisione Garzanti . 1996 . Garzanti . 978-88-11-50466-5 . 746 . it.
5. Web site: 28 December 2023 . Morta a Torino Alda Grimaldi: fu la prima regista della televisione, da "Settenote" a Scaramacai . 28 December 2023 . La Stampa . it.
6. Web site: Gallina . Fabio . 28 December 2023 . Morta a 104 anni Alda Grimaldi, attrice e regista, amica di Cesare Pavese . 29 December 2023 . Gazzetta d'Alba - Dal 1882 il settimanale di Alba, Langhe e Roero . it-IT.