Delia Boccardo (born 29 January 1948) is an Italian film, television and stage actress.
Life and career
Born in
Genoa
Genoa ( ; ; ) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy. As of 2025, 563,947 people live within the city's administrative limits. While its metropolitan city has 818,651 inhabitan ...
, Boccardo spent her childhood and adolescence in
Nervi, then studied at a Swiss college, at the
Poggio Imperiale girls' school and, for about three years, at a college in
Sussex
Sussex (Help:IPA/English, /ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English ''Sūþseaxe''; lit. 'South Saxons'; 'Sussex') is an area within South East England that was historically a kingdom of Sussex, kingdom and, later, a Historic counties of England, ...
, England.
In 1965 she moved to Rome where she attended the
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.
[
Boccardo made her film debut in 1966, in the ]Spaghetti Western
The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ...
'' Death Walks in Laredo''; she made her stage debut in 1967, alongside Raf Vallone in ''Uno sguardo dal ponte''.[ From the mid-1980s she focused her appearances on stage, where she worked intensively with Luca Ronconi,][
]
Partial filmography
* '' Death Walks in Laredo'' (1966) - Mady
* '' The Wild Eye'' (1967) - Barbara Bates
* '' Inspector Clouseau'' (1968) - Lisa Morrel
* ''Snow Job'' (1969) - Lorraine Borman
* '' Detective Belli'' (1969) - Sandy Bronson
* '' The Year of the Cannibals'' (1969) - Ismene
* ''Una macchia rosa'' (1969) - Livia
* '' The Adventurers'' (1970) - Caroline de Coyne
* '' Strogoff'' (1970) - Sangarre
* '' Between Miracles'' (1971) - Giovanna Visciani
* ''Equinozio'' (1971) - Anna / Una ragazza in riva al mare
* ''Stress'' (1971)
* '' Snow Job'' (1972) - Lorraine Borman
* '' Panhandle 38'' (1972) - Connie Briscott
* '' High Crime'' (1973) - Mirella
* '' Massacre in Rome'' (1973) - Elena
* '' Shoot First, Die Later'' (1974) - Sandra
* '' A Black Ribbon for Deborah'' (1974) - Mira Wener
* '' La mazurka del barone, della santa e del fico fiorone'' (1975) - Redheaded prostitute / The 'saint'
* '' The Last Day of School Before Christmas'' (1975) - Germana
* '' Silent Action'' (1975) - Maria
* ''Il caso Raoul'' (1975) - Delia
* ''Giovannino'' (1976)
* '' A Woman at Her Window'' (1976) - Dora Cooper
* ''Tentacles
In zoology, a tentacle is a flexible, mobile, and elongated organ present in some species of animals, most of them invertebrates. In animal anatomy, tentacles usually occur in one or more pairs. Anatomically, the tentacles of animals work main ...
'' (1977) - Vicky Gleason
* ''Improvviso'' (1979) - La Tedesca
* '' Martin Eden (1979 TV mini-series)'' (1979) - Ruth Morse
* '' The Day Christ Died'' (1980, TV Movie) - Mary Magdelene
* ''Roma dalla finestra'' (1982) - Olga
* ''Aphrodite
Aphrodite (, ) is an Greek mythology, ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretism, syncretised Roman counterpart , desire, Sexual intercourse, sex, fertility, prosperity, and ...
'' (1982) - Barbara
* '' Nostalghia'' (1983) - Domenico's Wife
* ''Hercules
Hercules (, ) is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.
The Romans adapted the Gr ...
'' (1983) - Athena
* '' The Assisi Underground'' (1985) - Countess Cristina
* '' Blood Ties'' (1986, TV Movie) - Sara Salina
* ''The Secret of the Sahara
''The Secret of the Sahara'' is an Italian television miniseries directed by Alberto Negrin and broadcast in 1988 in four episodes of approximately 90 minutes each. A version comprising seven approximately 50-minute episodes also exists. Produced ...
'' (1987, TV Mini-Series) - Yasmine
* ''Sposi'' (1988) - Assunta
* '' Cavalli si nasce'' (1989) - La Baronessa
* ''L'isola alla deriva'' (1989) - Madamoiselle
* '' The Week of the Sphinx'' (1990) - Sara
* ''Il nodo alla cravatta'' (1991)
* '' The Return of Casanova'' (1992) - Amelie
* '' Declarations of Love'' (1994) - Adult Sandra
* ''Fade out (Dissolvenza al nero)'' (1994)
* ''Questo è il giardino'' (1999) - Carlo's mother
* '' Empty Eyes'' (2001) - Marco's Mother
* '' Virginia, la monaca di Monza'' (2004, TV Movie) - Virginia's mother
References
External links
*
Italian film actresses
1948 births
Actresses from Genoa
Italian television actresses
Living people
Italian stage actresses
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia alumni
20th-century Italian actresses
People from Nervi
{{Italy-stage-actor-stub