Elena Cotta | |
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 Cotta at the 70th Venice International Film Festival | |
| Born | Elena Cotta Ramusino 19 August 1931 Milan, Kingdom of Italy |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1951–present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Volpi Cup (2013) |
Elena Cotta (born 19 August 1931) is an Italian stage, film and television actress.
Born in Milan, Italy, at a young age Cotta won a scholarship to attend the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico; [1] after just one year she quit the Academy to enter the stage company "La compagnia dei giovani". [2] In 1975, she founded her own company together with her husband, Carlo Alighiero. [2]
Cotta made her film debut in 1951, in Miracolo a Viggiù . [1] In 2000, she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress at AFI award and FCCA Award for her performance in Kate Woods' Looking for Alibrandi . In 2013, at 82 years old, she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her performance in A Street in Palermo , in which she played an old and stubborn Albanian woman. [1]
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