Alda Grimaldi (6 October 1919 – 28 December 2023), known as Dada, was an Italian director and actress who was active from the 1940s to the 1960s.

Biography

Grimaldi was born in

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in 1919. She began her acting career in Turin at the in the 1940s. In 1955, Grimaldi sterted working at

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. The same year, she won a scholarship to attend a directing course at the

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. Grimaldi was among the first women to work as a television director in the state television corporation in the early days of regular broadcasting. She directed, among other things, an episode of the 1958 didactic-theatrical program '. In 1957, she was awarded the . She died on 28 December 2023, at the age of 104.

Personal life

Grimaldi was married to the

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doctor Giovanni Rubino, who died in 1997.

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