Valeria Moriconi
Valeria Moriconi (née Valeria Abbruzzetti; November 15, 1931 – June 15, 2005) was an Italian actress who appeared both in movies and on stage.
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| Born | Valeria Abbruzzetti November 15, 1931 Iesi, Italy |
| Died | June 15, 2005 (aged 73) Iesi, Italy |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1953-2005 |
| Spouse(s) | Aldo Moriconi
(m. 1951; div. 1963) |
Biography
Valeria was born in Iesi, in Marche, a region in central Italy. Her earliest work was as a stage actress. She was very young when she acted in an art company, but success came with the movies Gli Italiani si voltano and La Spiaggia. She won the Golden Grolla award for Le soldatesse. She performed on stage in several plays at the Arlecchino Theater (now Flaiano), from Girotondo by Schnitzler and Per un amore a Roma by Patti to Arialda by Testori and directed by Luchino Visconti.
In the 1960s she met director Franco Enriquez and left her husband, Aldo Moriconi, for him. After Enriquez's death she loved Vittorio Spiga, a journalist from Bologna, and at her death he was at her bedside.
The president of the Italian Republic, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, nominated her Great Master of the Republic. In 2000 she was the voice for the Pope's comments during the Via Crucis. In 1999 she received the Renato Simoni award. She worked until the end of her life, in spite of a serious illness (bone cancer), but on 7 June 2005 she was forced to stop her theater tour with Ibsen's Ghosts (Gli Spettri).
Filmography
- Non è mai troppo tardi (1953, of Filippo Walter Ratti) - Marta
- Un turco napoletano (1953, of Mario Mattòli) - Una bagnante
- L'amore in città (1953, of Alberto Lattuada) - (segment "Italiani si voltano, Gli")
- The Beach (1954, of Alberto Lattuada) - Gughi - l'esistenzialista
- High School (1954, of Luciano Emmer) - Girl at the Dance Party (uncredited)
- Miseria e nobiltà (1954, of Mario Mattòli) - Pupella
- Naples Is Always Naples (1954, of Armando Fizzarotti) - Doris
- L'amante di Paride (1954, of Marc Allégret and Edgar G. Ulmer) - (Segment: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships) (uncredited)
- The Boatman of Amalfi (1954, of Mino Roli) - Martina
- I cavalieri dell'illusione (1954, of Marc Allégret)
- L'eterna femmina (1954, of Marc Allégret)
- The Best Part (1955, of Yves Allégret) - Odette - la serveuse de la cantine
- Gli innamorati (1956, of Mauro Bolognini) - Marisa
- Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo (1956, of Mauro Bolognini) - Maria Spaziani - Pietro's Daughter
- Totò lascia o raddoppia? (1956, of Camillo Mastrocinque) - Elsa Marini
- I giorni più belli (1956, of Mario Mattòli) - Silvana
- Una voce una chitarra e un po' di luna (1956, of Giacomo Gentilomo) - Maria
- I miliardari (1956, of Guido Malatesta)
- Le belle dell'aria (1957, of Eduardo Manzanos Brochero)
- I dritti (1957, of Mario Amendola) - Tosca
- La rivolta dei gladiatori (1958, of Vittorio Cottafavi) - Serva (uncredited)
- L'amore nasce a Roma (1958, of Mario Amendola) - Silvia
- Las aeroguapas (1958, of Eduardo Manzanos Brochero)
- I ragazzi dei Parioli (1959, of Sergio Corbucci) - Grazia
- Le cameriere (1959, of Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia) - Gabriella Calcinetto
- Lui, lei e il nonno (1959, of Anton Giulio Majano) - Tracy
- Il terrore dell'Oklahoma (1959, of Mario Amendola) - Shirley
- Un giorno da leoni (1961, of Nanni Loy) - Moglie di Orlando
- A cavallo della tigre (1961, of Luigi Comencini) - Ileana Rossi
- Ultimatum alla vita (1962, of Renato Polselli) - Anna
- La costanza della ragione (1964, of Pasquale Festa Campanile) Giuditta
- Le soldatesse (1965, of Valerio Zurlini) - Ebe Bartolini
- Una macchia rosa (1970, of Enzo Muzii)
- Il saprofita (1974, of Sergio Nasca) - Baroness Clotilde Bezzi
- Calamo (1975, of Massimo Pirri) - Stefania
- Per amore di Cesarina (1976, of Vittorio Sindoni) - Elvira Camporesi
- Quelle strane occasioni (1976, of Nanni Loy) - Giobatta's wife (segment "Italian Superman")
- Che notte quella notte! (1977, of Ghigo De Chiara) - Norma
- Improvviso (1979, of Edith Bruck) - La zia Luisa
- La fine è nota (1993, of Cristina Comencini) - Elvira Delogu
- La forza del passato (2002, of Piergiorgio Gay) - Madre di Gianni (final film role)
Television
- I grandi camaleonti (1964, of Edmo Fenoglio) - Godelieve
- Resurrezione (1965, of Franco Enriquez) - Katiuscia
- La locandiera (1966, TV Movie, of Franco Enriquez) - Mirandolina
- Macbeth (1976, TV Movie, of Franco Enriquez) - Lady Macbeth
- Alle origini della mafia (1976, of Enzo Muzii, Episode: "La speranza") - Isabella Mieli
- Viaggio a Goldonia (1982, of Ugo Gregoretti)
- Chéri (1988, TV Movie, of Enzo Muzii) - Lea
