Lelia Goldoni

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Lelia Goldoni (born October 1, 1936 in New York City , United States ) is an American film and television actress .

Live and act

Born in New York, she attended Los Angeles City College and was in front of the camera when she was twelve in the late 1940s. During the early 1950s, Lelia Goldoni joined the Lester Horton Dancers and focused on a career as a dancer in stage shows. Lelia Goldoni's life was to change suddenly when the actor and up-and-coming director John Cassavetes transferred the female lead role of Lelia in the sibling drama about everyday racism in the USA, Shade , to the 21-year-old artist, who had little film experience . Here she was convincing as the lightest of three different dark-skinned siblings who tried to take advantage of their weak pigmentation in a "white" world.

Following this artistically significant film, Lelia Goldoni initially only received offers for appearances in television series. Her later films fell far short of the standards set by the shadows, and it was only after her villain role in the British thriller Hysteria , where she tries to persuade an amnesia man that he had committed a murder, that the American began filming more regularly. However, all subsequent (and mostly smaller) roles did not bring a career boost and remained without reverberation.

Lelia Goldoni was married to fellow actor Ben Carruthers (1936–1983), who she had met while filming shadows , who died early .

Filmography

Theatrical films only, unless otherwise stated

  • 1948: We were alien to us (We Were Strangers)
  • 1949: Hostility to Blood (House of Strangers)
  • 1959: Shadows (Shadows)
  • 1965: Hysteria
  • 1967: House of Secrets (Theater of Death)
  • 1968: Charlie dusts off millions (The Italian Job)
  • 1973: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
  • 1974: The Day of the Locust (The Day of the Locust)
  • 1976: Baby Blue Marine
  • 1977: Hot Blood (Bloodbrothers)
  • 1978: The Body Snatchers (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
  • 1980: The Unseen (The Unseen)
  • 1981: Choices
  • 1981: Until the Last Shot (Gangster Wars)
  • 1984: Anatomy of an Illness (TV movie)
  • 1985: City Hawk (Rainy Day Friends)
  • 1993: Genius on the Wrong Coast (documentary, direction and production)
  • 1993: Somebody to Love
  • 1994: Dexter Riley - totally wired and nothing understood (The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes) (TV movie)
  • 2000: A Constant Forge (documentary)
  • 2007: Slice (short film)
  • 2008: Chain Link
  • 2010: The Pacific (television multipart)
  • 2012: Devil Inside
  • 2016: The Funeral Director
  • 2017: Norman Pinski Comes Home (short film)
  • 2018: The Next Cassavetes

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personal data
SURNAME Goldoni, Lelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American dancer and film and television actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , United States