Nora Ricci

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Nora Ricci (born July 19, 1924 in Viareggio , Tuscany , † April 16, 1976 in Rome , Latium ) was an Italian actress .

life and career

Nora Ricci was born in Tuscany to the actors Renzo Ricci (1899–1978) and Margherita Bagni (1902–1960). At the age of 17 she began her acting training in Rome at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica under the direction of Silvio D'Amico. There she also met the actor Vittorio Gassman , with whom she was married from 1944 until their divorce in 1952. After completing her acting training, she became a member of Laura Adani's acting ensemble . Her collaboration with Luchino Visconti , under whose direction she played in the theater in the 1940s, was also profiled . Ricci was later cast in a total of five films by the director , she played governesses in Visconti's film classics The Damned (1969) and Death in Venice (1971), and she was seen as Ida Ferenczy in Ludwig II (1972) . In 1966 she played one of the leading roles as the arguing wife in But, but, gentlemen ... by Pietro Germi , who was awarded the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

She played her last role in 1974 in a five-part television adaptation of Anna Karenina as Lidia Ivanovna, after which Nora Ricci had to retire from the film business due to illness. She died of liver failure in 1976 at the age of 51. Her daughter is the actress Paola Gassman (* 1945).

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SURNAME Ricci, Nora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Viareggio , Tuscany
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1976
Place of death Rome