1935-01-30 Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy
Elsa Martinelli (3 August 1932 or 30 January 1935, according to different sources) was an Italian actress and former fashion model. Born Elisa Tia in Grosseto, Tuscany, she moved to Rome with her family and in 1953 was discovered by Roberto Capucci who introduced her to the world of fashion. She became a model and began playing small roles in films. She appeared in Claude Autant-Lara's Le Rouge et le noir (1954), but her first important film role came the following year with The Indian Fighter opposite Kirk Douglas. Douglas claims to have spotted her on a magazine cover and hired her for his production company, Bryna Productions. In 1956 she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival for playing the title role in Mario Monicelli's Donatella. From the mid 1950s through the late 1960s, she divided her time between Europe and the USA appearing films such as Four Girls in Town (1957) with George Nader, Manuela (1957) with Trevor Howard, Prisoner of the Volga (1959) with John Derek, Hatari! (1962) with John Wayne, The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962) with Charlton Heston, The Trial with Anthony Perkins, The V.I.P.s (1963) with Orson Welles, Rampage (1963) with Robert Mitchum, and Woman Times Seven (1967) with Lex Barker. In Candy (1968), her co-stars were Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James Coburn, Walter Matthau and Ringo Starr. Since the late 1960s, she has worked in Europe in mostly foreign language productions. Her last English language role was as Carla the Agent in 1992s Once Upon a Crime. Her most recent appearance was in the 2005 European television series Orgoglio as the Duchessa di Monteforte. Martinelli was first married to Count Franco Mancinelli Scotti di San Vito, by whom she has a daughter, Cristiana Mancinelli (born 1958), also an actress. She later was married to the Paris Match photographer and 1970s furniture designer Willy Rizzo. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elsa Martinelli, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Il tempo delle mimose | 2013-01-01 | |
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Italian Kings Of B | Self | 2003-01-01 |
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Twisted Sex Vol. 5 | (archive) | 1993-10-01 |
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Once Upon a Crime | Carla the Agent | 1992-03-06 |
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Sono un fenomeno paranormale | Carla Razzi | 1985-12-24 |
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Astuzia per Astuzia | Annelise | 1979-09-30 |
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Garofano rosso | Zobeida | 1976-01-01 |
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La part des lions | Annie | 1971-09-08 |
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La araucana | Inés de Suárez | 1971-08-02 |
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OSS 117 prend des vacances | Elsa | 1970-02-04 |
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Maldonne | Gilberte de Baer | 1969-04-30 |
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Les Chemins de Katmandou | Martine | 1969-09-26 |
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Una sull'altra | Jane Bleeker | 1969-08-15 |
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L'amica | Carla Nervi | 1969-12-23 |
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium | Maria, Woman on Venetian Bridge | 1969-04-24 |
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Un dollaro per 7 vigliacchi | Vic Shaw | 1968-05-30 |
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Candy | Livia | 1968-12-17 |
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The Movie Orgy | Self (archive footage) | 1968-01-01 |
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Il mio corpo per un poker | Belle Starr | 1968-03-15 |
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Manon 70 | Annie | 1968-02-21 |
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Qualcuno ha tradito | Laureen | 1967-01-01 |
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Le Plus Vieux Métier du monde | Domitilla (segment "Nuits romaines") | 1967-04-07 |
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Woman Times Seven | Pretty Woman | 1967-09-29 |
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Maroc 7 | Claudia | 1967-03-22 |
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Come imparai ad amare le donne | Rallye driver | 1966-10-02 |
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Pop Age | Self | 1966-01-01 |
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La Fabuleuse Aventure de Marco Polo | The Woman with the Whip | 1965-08-06 |
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L'or du duc | Sonia | 1965-09-23 |
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La decima vittima | Olga | 1965-12-02 |
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Je vous salue, mafia! | Sylvia | 1965-08-10 |
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Un milliard dans un billard | Juliette | 1965-10-07 |
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De l'amour | Mathilde | 1964-12-28 |
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The Invincible Swordsman | Gisèle d'Angoulême | 1963-01-01 |
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Rampage | Anna | 1963-10-09 |
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The V.I.P.s | Gloria Gritti | 1963-09-01 |
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Pelle viva | 1962-10-18 | |
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The Pigeon That Took Rome | Antonella Massimo | 1962-06-19 |
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Le Procès | Hilda | 1962-12-21 |
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Hatari! | Anna Maria 'Dallas' D'Allesandro | 1962-06-19 |
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La Menace | Lucile | 1961-03-01 |
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Le Capitan | Gisèle d'Angoulême | 1960-10-05 |
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Un amore a Roma | Fulvia | 1960-11-24 |
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Et mourir de plaisir | Georgia Monteverdi | 1960-09-14 |
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Il carro armato dell'8 settembre | Mirella | 1960-09-24 |
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I piaceri del sabato notte | L'indossatrice romana | 1960-05-04 |
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I battellieri del Volga | Mascha | 1959-03-26 |
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La notte brava | Anna | 1959-11-12 |
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Costa Azzurra | Doriana | 1959-05-05 |
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Tunisi top secret | Kathy Sands | 1959-06-21 |
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Ciao, ciao bambina! | Diana | 1959-05-06 |
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La mina | Lucia | 1958-02-06 |
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Four Girls in Town | Maria Antonelli | 1957-01-16 |
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Manuela | Manuela Hunt | 1957-07-18 |
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La risaia | Elena | 1956-01-27 |
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Donatella | Donatella | 1956-10-03 |
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The Indian Fighter | Onahti | 1955-12-21 |
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Le Rouge et le Noir | Uncredited | 1954-10-29 |
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Se vincessi cento milioni | Anna (segment "L'indossatrice") | 1953-12-01 |
