Lidia Biondi

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Lidia Biondi (sometimes Lydia Biondi ; born May 16, 1942 in Livorno ; † June 14, 2016 in Rome ) was an Italian actress .

Life

Biondi began classical dance at the age of ten, had first appearances at the “Centro artistico Il Grattacielo” and intensified her dance studies with Daria Collins in Florence, where she obtained a further degree at the art college in Lucca . At the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts she also trained in equipment and costume design, but dropped out in the third year of her apprenticeship and now appeared as a classical dancer at the theater. After moving to Rome , she attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografiaand was seen on stage as an actress with many prominent names from the avant-garde spectrum of the theater landscape. At the same time she played (also to finance her own ideas) in several films of purely commercial style between 1967 and 1972. In 1968 she met one of the icons of the Dutch counterculture "Provo", Bernard de Vries , with whom she has a son.

A new phase of work for Biondi began with her collaboration with Swiss mime Roy Bosier ; She was now active as a pantomime for numerous theater and television projects . In 1979 she founded the “MTM mimoteatromovimento”, later with Antonio Calenda , Jimmy Gazzolo and Piera Degli Esposti the first Roman off-theater, “Teatro 101”. From 1981 on she was part of the Mummenschanz project for a long world tour until 1985 when she was active again as an actress and director in the projects of her own foundations. She was Artistic Director of the MTM until her death.

In the mid-1980s, Biondi resumed her film work and played character roles well into the new millennium and, since 2000, in a number of successful television films. In the theater she could be seen doing a wide variety of directing work; so in 1986 at “Spoleto Sperimentale”, in 1990 in Toronto , in 1992 in Copenhagen and in Calabria and in 1996 in Rome. She has led theater workshops in the USA, Colombia , Canada , Italy , France and Russia . She has also worked as an assistant director for several films .

She is known to a younger audience through the television series Rome , in which she was seen as the slave girl Merula.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ E 'morta l'attrice di cinema e tv Lydia Biondi . Il Tirreno , June 14, 2016.
  2. ↑ 16 | 20 May 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Transversal Theater, archived from the original on February 2, 2014 ; accessed on June 15, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Biondi, Lidia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Livorno , Italy
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2016
Place of death Rome , Italy