Daria Nicolodi

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Daria Nicolodi (1970), photograph by Paolo Monti

Daria Nicolodi (born June 19, 1950 in Florence - † November 26, 2020 in Rome ) was an Italian actress and screenwriter .

life and career

Daria Nicolodi was the granddaughter of the composer Alfredo Casella and grew up as the daughter of a lawyer. At the end of the 1960s she moved to Rome, studied acting and finally got her first roles in theater and film. Her appearance in the crime comedy La proprietà non è più un furto (1973) by Elio Petri earned her an Italian critic award. In the 1970s and 1980s in particular, she was seen in numerous leading roles or major supporting roles in Italian films, and she also worked several times in television productions such as Giuseppe Verdi - An Italian Legend from 1982.

Nicolodi became known internationally for her long-standing collaboration with director Dario Argento , which began in 1975 with a leading role as a young journalist in Rosso - Color of Death and ended in 2007 with a supporting role in The Mother of Tears . In addition to her acting roles, Nicolodi was the idea generator and co-author of Argento's horror film classic Suspiria (1977). She also worked with other directors in the horror film genre, such as Mario Bava on Schock (1977) and Lamberto Bava on Das eheimliche Auge (1987). Directed by Ettore Scola she played in 1985 in the tragicomedy Macaroni alongside Jack Lemmon and Marcello Mastroianni . Nicolodi was last seen in a guest role in an Italian television series in 2009.

From 1974 to 1985 Nicolodi had a private relationship with Dario Argento, from which the daughter Asia Argento comes . Directed by her daughter, she starred in the movie Scarlet Diva in 2000 . From a previous relationship with the sculptor Mario Ceroli , she also had a daughter named Anna, who died in an accident in 1994. Daria Nicolodi died in November 2020 at the age of 70.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1970: Battalion of the Lost (Uomini contro)
  • 1972: I Nicotera (TV miniseries, five episodes)
  • 1973: La proprietà non è più un furto
  • 1975: Rosso - Color of Death (Profondo rosso)
  • 1977: shock
  • 1977: Suspiria - as a screenwriter, also a small supporting role
  • 1980: Horror Infernal (Inferno) - also unnamed collaboration on the script
  • 1982: Tenebrae (Tenebre)
  • 1982: Giuseppe Verdi - An Italian Legend ( Verdi ; television miniseries)
  • 1985: Phenomena
  • 1985: Macaroni (Maccheroni)
  • 1987: The uncanny eye (Le foto di Gioia)
  • 1987: Terror in the Opera (Opera)
  • 1989: Paganini Horror - The Blood Violinist of Venice (Paganini Horror) - also as a screenwriter
  • 1989: Sinbad of the Seven Seas
  • 1993: The Network of the Past (La fine è nota)
  • 1998: is love just a word? (La parola amore esiste)
  • 2000: Scarlet Diva
  • 2007: The Mother of Tears (La terza madre)
  • 2009: Il mostro di Firenze (TV series, one episode)

Web links

Commons : Daria Nicolodi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daria Nicolodi. In: Internet Movie Database . Accessed November 27, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ Nick Vivarelli: Daria Nicolodi, Star of Dario Argento's 'Deep Red' and 'Inferno,' Dies at 70. In: Variety.com . November 26, 2020, accessed on November 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Actress died: Asia Argento mourns her mother Daria Nicolodi. In: stuttgarter-nachrichten.de . November 27, 2020, accessed November 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Davide Turrini: Daria Nicolodi morta, l'attrice e sceneggiatrice aveva 70 anni. Il post della figlia Asia Argento: “Riposa in pace mamma adorata”. In: Il Fatto Quotidiano . November 26, 2020, accessed November 27, 2020 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Nicolodi, Daria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film actress and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence , Italy
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2020
Place of death Rome , Italy