Elena Cotta

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Elena Cotta
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Born
Elena Cotta Ramusino

(1931-08-19) 19 August 1931 (age 90)
NationalityItalian
OccupationActress
Years active1950s-present

Elena Cotta (born 19 August 1931) is an Italian stage, film and television actress.

Life and career[]

Born in Milan, at a young age Cotta won a scholarship to attend the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico;[1] after just one year she quit the Academy to enter the stage company "La compagnia dei giovani".[2] In 1975, she founded her own company together with her husband, Carlo Alighiero.[2]

Cotta made her film debut in 1951, in Miracolo a Viggiù.[1] In 2000, she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress at AFI award and FCCA Award for her performance in Kate Woods' Looking for Alibrandi. In 2013, at 82 years old, she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her performance in A Street in Palermo, in which she played an old and stubborn Albanian woman.[1]

Partial filmography[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Arianna Finos (8 September 2013). "A 82 anni battere Judi Dench è una soddisfazione". La Repubblica. Archived from the original on 11 December 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Elena Cotta sfida Emma Dante al volante di un'automobile". L' Arena. 23 August 2013. Archived from the original on 8 September 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2013.

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