Portrait of Alida Valli

Alida Valli

Acting

Biography

Alida Valli (May 31, 1921 – April 22, 2006), sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico, Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case, Ayn Rand's We the Living, Carol Reed's The Third Man, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido, Luchino Visconti's Senso, and Dario Argento's Suspiria.

Born: May 31, 1921

Place of Birth: Pola, Istria, Italy [now Pula, Istria, Croatia]

Filmography

2021
2017
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

2012
2008
Come diventai Alida Valli

as Self (Archive)

2002
Angel of Death

as Doña Catalina

2001
Suspiria 25th Anniversary

as Self (archive footage)

2001
Probably Love

as Herself

1999
The Sweet Sounds of Life

as Sofia's grandmother

1999
The Sweet Sounds of Life

as Nonna di Sofia

1996
Fatal Frames

as Countess Alessandra Mirafiori

1995
A Month by the Lake

as Signora Fascioli

1994
The Final Scoop

as Caterina, Andrea's mother

1993
The Long Silence

as Carla's Mother

1993
Private Crimes

as Matilde Pierboni

1991
1991
La bocca

as Countess Bianca Rospigliosi

1988
1987
1985
1982
Forbidden Dreams

as Madre di Marina

1982
Aspern

as Juliana Barther

1981
Illa - Punto d'osservazione

as Maria Dal Ponte

1980
Towards Zero

as Lady Camilla Tressilian

1980
Inferno

as Carol

1979
Luna

as Giuseppe's Mother

1979
Killer Nun

as Mother Superior

1979
Zoo zéro

as Yvonne, la mère

1978
The Perfect Crime

as Lady Clementine De Revere

1978
Dirty World

as Teresina

1977
Berlinguer: I Love You

as Mamma di Mario

1977
A Simple Heart

as Mrs. Obin

1977
Suspiria

as Miss Tanner

1976
The Cassandra Crossing

as Mrs. Chadwick

1976
1976
1900

as Signora Pioppi

1975
1975
The House of Exorcism

as Countess (archive footage)

1975
Flesh of the Orchid

as la folle de la gare

1974
1974
Tender Dracula

as Héloïse

1973
1972
Indian Summer

as Marcella Abati - Vanina's mother

1970
1967
Oedipus Rex

as Merope, Queen of Corinth

1965
Black Humor

as The Widow - segment 3 'La cornacchia'

1964
The Other Woman

as Annabel

1963
The Paper Man

as La Italiana

1963
The Castilian

as Reina Teresa

1963
Ophélia

as Claudia Lesurf

1962
Combat!

as Marie

1962
Disorder

as Carlo's Mother

1962
La Fille du torrent

as Livia Boissière

1962
Homage at Siesta Time

as Constance Fischer

1961
The Happy Thieves

as Duchess Blanca

1961
Dr. Kildare

as Luisa Brabante

1961
The Long Absence

as Thérèse Langlois

1960
1960
The Gigolo

as Agathe

1960
The Dialogue of the Carmelites

as Mother Thérèse of Saint-Augustin

1960
1959
Signed, Arsène Lupin

as Aurélia Valéano

1959
The Sons of Medea

as Medea / Alida Valli

1958
The Night Heaven Fell

as Aunt Florentine

1957
The Wide Blue Road

as Rosetta, the Wife

1957
1957
Il Grido

as Irma

1954
Senso

as La Contessa Livia Serpieri

1954
The Stranger's Hand

as Roberta Gleukovitch

1953
We, the Women

as Alida (segment "Alida Valli")

1953
The World Condemns Them

as Renata Giustini

1953
The Lovers of Toledo

as Doña Inés de Arévalo Blas

1951
Last Meeting

as Lina Castelli

1950
Walk Softly, Stranger

as Elaine Corelli

1950
The White Tower

as Carla Alton (as Valli)

1949
The Third Man

as Anna Schmidt

1948
The Miracle of the Bells

as Olga Treskovna

1947
The Paradine Case

as Mrs. Paradine

1946
Eugenia Grandet

as Eugenia Grandet

1945
1945
Life Begins Anew

as Patrizia Martini

1943
Apparizione

as Andreina

1943
I'll Love You Forever

as Adriana Rosé

1942
We the Living, Part Two

as Kira Argounova

1942
We the Living, Part One

as Kira Argounova

1942
Le due orfanelle

as Enrichetta

1941
Schoolgirl Diary

as Anna Campolmi

1941
Luce nelle tenebre

as Marina Ferri

1941
Piccolo mondo antico

as Luisa Maironi

1940
1940
Manon Lescaut

as Manon Lescaut

1940
Beyond Love

as Vanina Vanini

1939
Ballo al castello

as Greta Larsen

1939
1939
1938
1937
Il feroce saladino

as Dora Florida / La bella Sulamita

1937
I Was to Blame

as Lauretta