Nicoletta Elmi


Nicoletta Elmi is an Italian film actress. She appeared in many films in the 1970s as a child actress, but also appeared in several roles in adulthood in the 1980s.

Career

She is best known for a series of roles as a child in Italian horror films, especially the giallo subgenre. Her film career started in 1969 with an uncredited appearance in Le Sorelle, followed later in the same year by an appearance as Rosy in Ettore Maria Fizzarotti's musicarello Il suo nome è Donna Rosa, a role she reprised the following year in the sequel Mezzanotte d'amore. In 1971, she made an uncredited appearance as the little girl at the table in Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice. In 1971, she made an uncredited appearance as the unnamed daughter of Renata and Albert in Mario Bava's A Bay of Blood. Also in 1971, she made another uncredited appearance as Mary, the daughter of the main characters Salvatore and Carmela Lo Coco in Steno's Gang War. In 1972, she played the role of Gretchen Hummel in another Mario Bava film, Baron Blood. In the 1972 release Who Saw Her Die?, directed by Aldo Lado and Vittorio De Sisti, she played Roberta, the daughter of George Lazenby's character Franco Serpieri. In 1973, she made an uncredited appearance as the character Virginia in Luciano Salce's comedy Io e lui. In 1974, she played the role of Marika/Monica, Baron Frankenstein's daughter, in Flesh For Frankenstein. In 1975, she played the character Paula in Luigi Bazzoni's Footprints on the Moon, the same year, she appeared in the role of Olga in Dario Argento's Deep Red. In 1975, she played the titular role in Massimo Dallamano's The Night Child. The final film of the first segment of her career was Aldo Scavarda's only film as a director, the World War II drama Stream Line, in which she played Graziella Torretti, acting alongside Philippe Leroy and John Hurt.
After a career break during her teenage years, she went on to appear in several film and TV roles as an adult, including a return to the horror genre in Lamberto Bava's Demons in 1985. However, the previous year, she appeared in two comedies: the Carlo Vanzina-directed romantic comedy Amarsi un po'... in the role of Amanda Orselli, alongside Tahnee Welch and Virna Lisi, and the Claudio Risi-directed Windsurf - Il vento nelle mani in which she played the character of Alice, again acting with Philippe Leroy, with whom she had appeared in Stream Line. From 1987 to 1988, she played the part of Benedetta Valentini in the TV series I ragazzi della 3ª C, which was also directed by Claudio Risi, with whom she had worked on Windsurf three years previously. Following this, she quit acting to become a speech therapist.

Filmography

Cinema

Television