Eleonora Rossi Drago

Eleonora Rossi Drago
Rossi Drago in Violent Summer (1959)
Born	Palmina Omiccioli (1925-09-23)23 September 1925 Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy
Died	2 December 2007(2007-12-02) (aged 82) Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Years active	1949-1970
Spouses	Cesare Rossi ​ ​ (m. 1942;div. 1956)​ [1] Domenico La Cavera ​ (m. 1973)​
Children	1

Eleonora Rossi Drago, born Palmina Omiccioli, (23 September 1925 – 2 December 2007) was an Italian film actress. ^[2] She was born in Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy, and had the leading role in Le amiche . ^[3] She appeared in The Facts of Murder. ^[4] In 1960, for her performance in Violent Summer , she won the best actress prize of the Mar del Plata Film Festival and the Nastro d'argento. In 1964, she appeared in La Cittadella . She died in Palermo, Italy. ^[5]

Selected filmography

Rossi Drago in a publicity still for La Tour, prends garde ! (1958).

• The Pirates of Capri (1949) - Annette
• Altura (1949) - Grazia
• Due sorelle amano (1950) - Marilù, Maria Pia's sister
• Behind Closed Shutters (1951) - Sandra
• Verginità (1951) - Mara Sibilia
• The Last Sentence (1951) - Marisa
• Barefoot Savage (1952) - Franca Gabrie
• Girls Marked Danger (1952) - Alda
• The Flame (1952) - Monica
• Three Forbidden Stories (1952) - Gianna Aragona (Third segment)
• I sette dell'Orsa maggiore (1953) - Marion
• The Slave (1953) - Elena Landa
• Daughters of Destiny (1954) - Angela Ascari / Farmgirl (segment "Elisabeth")
• Vestire gli ignudi (1954) - Ersilia Drei
• On Trial (L'affaire Maurizius) (1954) - Anna Jahn
• Le Amiche (1955) - Clelia
• A Woman Alone (1956) - Luisa
• The Awakening (1956) - Assunta - madre di Salvatore
• Il prezzo della gloria (1956) - Anna
• Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (1957) - Contessa Elena Koefeld
• Anyone Can Kill Me (1957) - Odette - la femme du directeur
• La Tour, prends garde ! (1958) - La comtesse Malvina d'Amalfi
• The Road a Year Long (1958) - Susanna
• Winter Holidays (1959) - La comtesse Paola Parioli
• Le Fric  [ fr ] (1959) - Marina
• Dagli Appennini alle Ande (1959) - Marco's mother
• The Facts of Murder (1959) - L'Assassinata
• Violent Summer (1959) - Roberta Parmesan
• The Employee (1960) - Maria Jacobetti
• David and Goliath (1960) - Merab
• Under Ten Flags (1960) - Elsa
• La garçonnière (1960) - Giulia Fiorini
• The Red Hand (1960) - Violetta Scotoni
• Final Accord (1960) - Linda Valore
• Sword of the Conqueror (1961) - Rosmunda
• Pigeon Shoot (1961) - Anna
• Caccia all'uomo (1961) - Clara Ducci
• Love at Twenty (1962) - Valentina
• The Carpet of Horror  [ de ] (1962) - Mabel Hughes
• Anima nera (1962) - Alessandra
• Hypnosis  [ de ] (1962) - Magda Berger
• I Don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra (1962) - Jasmine
• Storm Over Ceylon (1963) - Maharani from Tungala
• Wounds of Hunger (1963) - The Widow
• Il treno del sabato (1964) - Rosy Pallante
• La Cittadella (1964, TV Mini-Series) - Francis Lawrence
• Let's Talk About Women (1964) - Indolent Lady
• Amore facile (1964) - Lisa Bollati (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
• Love and Marriage (1964) - (segment "Ultima carta, L'")
• Il disco volante (1964) - Clelia
• El Diablo también llora (1965) - Ana Sandoval
• I Kill, You Kill (1965) - Vera (segment "Il Plenilunio")
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (1965) - Mrs. Saint-Claire
• Su e giù (1965) - Violante Persici (segment " Il Colpo Del Leone")
• Assassination in Rome (1965) - Erika Tiller
• The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966) - Lot's Wife
• Mano di velluto (1966)
• El último sábado (1967)
• Love Problems (1968) - Countess
• Camille 2000 (1969) - Prudence
• Gli angeli del 2000 (1969) - Dory
• Dorian Gray (1970) - Esther Clouston
• In the Folds of the Flesh (1970) - Lucille / housekeeper (final film role)

References

1. "OMICCIOLI, Palmina". Treccani (in Italian).
2. "Obituary: Eleonora Rossi Drago". the Guardian. 7 December 2007.
3. "Le Amiche (1955) - Michelangelo Antonioni | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".
4. "Un MALEDETTO IMBROGLIO (1959)". BFI. Archived from the original on 4 April 2020.
5. "Eleonora Rossi Drago". BFI. Archived from the original on 18 November 2016.

External links

• Eleonora Rossi Drago at IMDb