Portrait of Lelia Goldoni

Lelia Goldoni

Acting

Biography

Lelia Goldoni was an American actress who appeared in a number of motion pictures and television shows starting in the late-1940s, beginning with uncredited cameo roles in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's House of Strangers (1949) and John Huston's We Were Strangers (1949). She costarred on an episode of the British television series Danger Man "Fair Exchange" (1964) with Patrick MacGoohan. She is best known for co-starring in John Cassavetes's groundbreaking film Shadows (1959) and playing the best friend of Ellen Burstyn's character in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lelia Goldoni, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Born: October 1, 1936

Filmography

2016
Bardo

as Lily

2008
Chain Link

as Floraine

2003
Cold Case

as Nurse Polly Leonard (2007)

2000
1995
1994
Somebody to Love

as Venice Waitress

1986
L.A. Law

as Judge Danielle Peterson

1985
Rainy Day Friends

as Barbara Marti

1984
Anatomy of an Illness

as Mrs. Farelli

1982
Cagney & Lacey

as Mrs. Tartaglia

1981
Choices

as Jean Carluccio

1981
Gangster Wars

as Mrs. Lasker

1980
The Unseen

as Virginia Keller

1980
Scruples

as Joanne Hillman

1979
Knots Landing

as Dr. Beauvais

1978
Invasion of the Body Snatchers

as Katherine Hendley

1978
1978
1977
Nowhere to Hide

as Linda Faber

1977
Good Against Evil

as Sister Monica

1977
The Spell

as Jo Standish

1976
1976
Special Delivery

as Edna Fenner (uncredited)

1976
Baby Blue Marine

as Mrs. Townsley

1975
1969
The Italian Job

as Mrs. Beckerman (uncredited)

1967
Theatre of Death

as Dani Gireaux

1965
Hysteria

as Denise James

1964
Theatre 625

as Bernice Lewis

1960
Shadows

as Lelia

1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Emma Shaffer

1949
House of Strangers

as Italian Girl (uncredited)

1949
We Were Strangers

as Consuelo Valdés (uncredited)