Xenia Valderi (21 January 1926 – 3 November 2008) was a

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actress.

Early life

The daughter of a

father and German mother, Xenia Valdameri was born at

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in today's Croatia. She moved to Rome as a young woman after

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, for a career in acting.

Career

Xenia Valderi (she used a shorter version of her original surname) appeared regularly in Italian films of the 1950s and 1960s, including

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's ''

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'' (1951),

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and

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's '' Il tallone di Achille'' (1952),

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's ''

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'' (1953),

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's '' La valigia dei sogni'' (1953),

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's ''

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'' (1954) with Gina Lollabrigida, Lionello De Felice's '' Too Young for Love'' (1955), De Felice's ''

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'' (1955),

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's ''

Il Bidone ''Il bidone'' , ''The Swindle'', is a 1955 Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini starring Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart and Giulietta Masina. Plot In the country outside Rome, a group of swindlers dress up as clerics and con poor ...

'' (1955), De Felice's '' 100 Years of Love'' (1954),

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's '' Move and I'll Shoot'' (1958), Mattoli's '' Non perdiamo la testa'' (1959),

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's '' The Swindlers'' (1963),

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's '' Red Desert'' (1964), with

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and

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, and

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'' (1966). She was specialized in bourgeois, snobby and often scatterbrained characters. She was also featured in some Italian television programs and on the musical comedy stage.

Personal life and death

Xenia Valderi was said to be romantically involved with fellow actor

Jacques Sernas Jokūbas Bernardas Šernas (30 July 1925 – 3 July 2015), commonly known as Jacques Sernas and sometimes credited as Jack Sernas, was a Lithuanian-born French actor with an international film career. Biography He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, ...

in 1954. Valderi died in Castelnuovo di Porto on 3 November 2008, at the age of 87.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Valderi, Xenia 1926 births 2008 deaths 20th-century Italian actresses Italian film actresses Actresses from Split, Croatia Italian television actresses Italian stage actresses Yugoslav emigrants to Italy Italian people of German descent Italian people of Croatian descent Dalmatian Italians