Antonella Lualdi | |
Birth Name: | Antonietta de Pascale |
Birth Date: | 6 July 1931 |
Birth Place: | Beirut, Greater Lebanon |
Death Place: | Rome, Italy |
Occupation: | Actress |
Yearsactive: | 1949–1994 |
Antonella Lualdi ( Αντονέλλα Λουάλντι; born Antonietta de Pascale, 6 July 1931 – 10 August 2023) was an Italian actress and singer. She appeared in many Italian and French films in the 1950s and 1960s, notably in Claude Autant-Lara's film The Red and the Black in 1954.
Lualdi began her career in 1949, after having won a contest for new talents of the cinema magazine Hollywood, in which she was presented as "Signorina X" ("Miss X"), inviting the readers to choose her stage name.[1]
After having starred with him in several films, she married Italian actor Franco Interlenghi in 1955; the couple had two daughters, Stella and Antonellina, an actress in her own right.
In 1974 she debuted in France as a singer with some success and critical acclaim, then she also debuted on stage with the comedy Le Moulin de la Galette, with which she toured across several European countries.
Antonella Lualdi died on 10 August 2023, at the age of 92.[2]