Clio Goldsmith

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Clio Goldsmith
Clio Goldsmith in Miele di donna.jpg
Goldsmith in 1981
OccupationActress
Years active1980–1986
Spouses
Carlo Alessandro Puri Negri
(m. 1982;div. 1985)
(m. 1990;div. 2009)
Children2
Parent(s) Edward Goldsmith
Gillian Marion Pretty
Family Goldsmith

Clio Goldsmith is an English former actress, appearing mostly as a femme fatale in some films of the early 1980s. She is a member of the prominent Goldsmith family through her father ecologist Edward Goldsmith. Goldsmith was married to British travel writer Mark Shand, thus a former sister-in-law to Queen Camilla.

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Life and career

She began acting in the 1980 movie The Cricket of Alberto Lattuada. Alongside Virna Lisi and Anthony Franciosa, she played a fun-loving girl ending up as prostitute. In 1981, she played prostitute Clemence in Mauro Bolognini's The Lady of the Camellias together with Isabelle Huppert. In Plein sud, she vows she will take up with the first fool she sees, seducing Patrick Dewaere.

In 1982, the title role in the comedy Bankers Also Have Souls earned her some international fame. The Michel Lang movie which was produced by her cousin Gilbert de Goldschmidt featured Pierre Mondy and Claudia Cardinale. Goldsmith plays a beautiful call girl, a gift to a retiring banker from his colleagues. After two other roles, and having appeared twice in an Italian adult entertainment magazine Playmen, she retired from acting.

From 1982 to 1985 she was married to Italian entrepreneur Carlo Alessandro Puri Negri (*1952), an heir of the Pirelli family. They had a daughter, Talita. In 1990 she married British author Mark Shand, brother of Queen Camilla and they had a daughter, Ayesha. [1] Shand confirmed in 2010 that the couple were divorced. [2]

Filmography

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References

  1. The Elephant Man [ permanent dead link ], By Samantha Conti, W Magazine , March 2008
  2. Roberts, Alison (April 15, 2010). "Mark Shand is the Elephant man". London Evening Standard. Retrieved April 23, 2014.