Elena Cotta

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Elena Cotta
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Cotta at the 70th Venice International Film Festival
Born
Elena Cotta Ramusino

(1931-08-19) 19 August 1931 (age 93)
Milan, Kingdom of Italy
OccupationActress
Years active1951–present
Spouse
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    (m. 1952;died 2021)​
Children2
Awards Volpi Cup (2013)

Elena Cotta (born 19 August 1931) is an Italian stage, film and television actress.

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Life and career

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]

Partial filmography

References

  1. 1 2 3 Arianna Finos (8 September 2013). "A 82 anni battere Judi Dench è una soddisfazione". La Repubblica . Archived from the original on 11 December 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Elena Cotta sfida Emma Dante al volante di un'automobile". L' Arena. 23 August 2013. Archived from the original on 8 September 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
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