Daria Nicolodi (19 June 1950 – 26 November 2020) was an Italian television and film actress and screenwriter, and associated mostly with the films of director

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Early life and career

Daria Nicolodi was born in Florence on 19 June 1950. Her father was a Florentine lawyer and her mother, Fulvia, was a scholar of ancient languages. Her maternal grandfather was composer

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. She moved to Rome in the late 1960s. In 1970, she participated in the television variety show ''Babau'' which was shelved and only broadcast by RAI six years later. She gave her screen debut the same year in

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's '' Many Wars Ago''. In 1973, she starred in

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's '' Property Is No Longer a Theft''. She also appeared in TV productions, such as the miniseries ''Nicotera'', ''Without a Trace'' with Rossano Brazzi (1972), ''Portrait of a Veiled Woman'' with

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(1975), the drama ''Saturnino Farandola'' with Mariano Rigillo (1978), and ''Rosaura at 10'' (1981). Nicolodi starred in five films directed by Dario Argento between 1975 and 1987: ''

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'' (1975), '' Inferno'' (1980), '' Tenebrae'' (1982), ''

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'' (1985) and ''

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'' (1987). She later stressed that the screenplays for Argento's ''

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'' and ''Inferno'' owed many ideas to her authorship, but received writing credit only for the former. During this time, she also appeared in ''Shock'', the final film of Italian horror director

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. After her relationship with Argento ended in 1985, Nicolodi participated in such films as '' Macaroni'', '' Notes of Love'' and her daughter

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's '' Scarlet Diva''. In 2007, Nicolodi worked with Asia on Dario Argento's '' Mother of Tears'', the sequel to ''Suspiria'' and ''Inferno''.

Personal life and death

In the early 1970s, she had a relationship with the sculptor

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. They had a daughter, Anna, who was born in 1972 and died in a 1994 traffic accident. Nicolodi had a professional and private relationship with director Dario Argento; they met in 1974 during casting for the film ''Deep Red'', and their daughter Asia was born in 1975. They separated in 1985. Nicolodi died in Rome on 26 November 2020 at the age of 70 from undisclosed causes.

Legacy

In 2012, the retrospective ''Argento: Il Cinema Nel Sangue'' was held at the

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. It highlighted Nicolodi's contribution to Dario Argento's films as well as that of his father (Salvatore), brother (Claudio) and daughter (Asia).

Filmography

References

External links

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Official website
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