Eleonora Rossi Drago Explained

Birth Name:	Palmina Omiccioli
Birth Date:	23 September 1925
Birth Place:	Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy
Death Place:	Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Yearsactive:	1949-1970
Spouse:	Domenico La Cavera (1973-2007) (her death)^[1] Cesare Rossi (1942-1956) (separated) (1 child)Web site: Treccani - la cultura italiana \| Treccani, il portale del sapere .

Eleonora Rossi Drago, born Palmina Omiccioli, (23 September 1925 - 2 December 2007) was an Italian film actress.^[2] She was born in Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy, and had the leading role in Le amiche.^[3] She appeared in Un maledetto imbroglio.^[4] In 1960, for her performance in Estate violenta, she won the best actress prize of the Mar del Plata Film Festival and the Nastro d'argento. In 1964, she appeared in La Cittadella. She died in Palermo, Italy.^[5]

Selected filmography

The Pirates of Capri (1949) - Annette
Altura (1949) - Grazia
Due sorelle amano (1950) - Marilù, Maria Pia's sister
Behind Closed Shutters (1951) - Sandra
Verginità (1951) - Mara Sibilia
The Last Sentence (1951) - Marisa
Barefoot Savage (1952) - Franca Gabrie
Girls Marked Danger (1952) - Alda
The Flame (1952) - Monica
Three Forbidden Stories (1952) - Gianna Aragona (Third segment)
I sette dell'Orsa maggiore (1953) - Marion
The Slave (1953) - Elena Landa
Daughters of Destiny (1954) - Angela Ascari / Farmgirl (segment "Elisabeth")
Vestire gli ignudi (1954) - Ersilia Drei
On Trial (L'affaire Maurizius) (1954) - Anna Jahn
Le Amiche (1955) - Clelia
A Woman Alone (1956) - Luisa
The Awakening (1956) - Assunta - madre di Salvatore
Il prezzo della gloria (1956) - Anna
(1957) - Contessa Elena Koefeld
Anyone Can Kill Me (1957) - Odette - la femme du directeur
La Tour, prends garde ! (1958) - La comtesse Malvina d'Amalfi
The Road a Year Long (1958) - Susanna
Winter Holidays (1959) - La comtesse Paola Parioli
The Employee (1959) - Marina
Dagli Appennini alle Ande (1959) - Marco's mother
The Facts of Murder (1959) - L'Assassinata
Estate Violenta (1959) - Roberta Parmesan
The Employee (1960) - Maria Jacobetti
David and Goliath (1960) - Merab
Under Ten Flags (1960) - Elsa
La garçonnière (1960) - Giulia Fiorini
The Red Hand (1960) - Violetta Scotoni
Final Accord (1960) - Linda Valore
Sword of the Conqueror (1961) - Rosmunda
Pigeon Shoot (1961) - Anna
Caccia all'uomo (1961) - Clara Ducci
Love at Twenty (1962) - Valentina
(1962) - Mabel Hughes
Anima nera (1962) - Alessandra
le tueur a la Rose Rouge (1962)
Hypnosis (1962) - Magda Berger
I Don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra (1962) - Jasmine
Storm Over Ceylon (1963) - Maharani from Tungala
Wounds of Hunger (1963) - The Widow
Il treno del sabato (1964) - Rosy Pallante
La Cittadella (1964, TV Mini-Series) - Francis Lawrence
Let's Talk About Women (1964) - Indolent Lady
Amore facile (1964) - Lisa Bollati (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
Love and Marriage (1964) - (segment "Ultima carta, L'")
Il disco volante (1964) - Clelia
El Diablo también llora (1965) - Ana Sandoval
I Kill, You Kill (1965) - Vera (segment "Il Plenilunio")
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1965) - Mrs. Saint-Claire
Su e giù (1965) - Violante Persici (segment " Il Colpo Del Leone")
Assassination in Rome (1965) - Erika Tiller
(1966) - Lot's Wife
Mano di velluto (1966)
El último sábado (1967)
Love Problems (1968) - Countess
Camille 2000 (1969) - Prudence
Gli angeli del 2000 (1969) - Dory
Dorian Gray (1970) - Esther Clouston
In the Folds of the Flesh (1970) - Lucille / housekeeper (final film role)

Notes and References

Web site: Obituary: Eleonora Rossi Drago . . 7 December 2007 .
Web site: Obituary: Eleonora Rossi Drago. 7 December 2007. the Guardian.
Web site: Le Amiche (1955) - Michelangelo Antonioni | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie.
Web site: Un MALEDETTO IMBROGLIO (1959). https://web.archive.org/web/20200404220035/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6afa1d57. dead. 4 April 2020. BFI.
Web site: Eleonora Rossi Drago. https://web.archive.org/web/20161118073653/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba433b590. dead. 18 November 2016. BFI.