Eleonora Giorgi

Actress

October 21, 1953 (71 years)

† March 3, 2025

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Biography

Eleonora Giorgi (born 21 October 1953) is an Italian actress. Giorgi was born in Rome, Italy. Her father was of Italian and English origin. Her mother was of Italian and Hungarian origin. She made her film debut in a minor role in Paolo Cavara's horror film Black Belly of the Tarantula (1970) and subsequently appeared in nearly fifty films, mostly in prominent roles. Domenico Paolella's Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973), an important nunsploitation, marked her film debut, at age eighteen. She th…

Filmography

6.3

Father Matteo

Amelie Rosario

Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.

7.1

The Cesaronis

Iva Zavattini

Giulio is a widower, struggling to raise three sons, Marco, Rudi, and Mimmo, as best he can. He lives in Rome's working-class Garbatella neighborhood and runs a wine shop with his two brothers. Lucia, meanwhile, comes from Milan's middle-class background; she's divorced and trying to rebuild her life with her two daughters, Eva and Alice. The two meet by chance and recognize each other: they had a fling as teenagers, many years earlier. Yet first love is never forgotten, and so Giulio and Lucia find themselves together again. Their meeting, however, changes not only the lives of a man and a woman, but also those of two families as different as could be. Two families who find themselves living under the same roof without even having had the time to get to know each other well.

5.6

Appassionata

Nicola

Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife.

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TV Story Superstar

Self (archive footage)

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6.6

Inferno

Sara

A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.

8.0

Lo zio d'America

Beatrice Ricciardi

Lo zio d'America is an Italian television series.

6.8

Talcum Powder

Nadia Vandelli

Sergio Benvenuti is a shy seller of contracts for a Roman company of music, but because of his character he cannot find even a customer, so he asks for help from a fellow named Nadia.

6.0

My Wife is a Witch

Finnicella

A witch being condemned to burn to death by the Holy Inquisition makes a contract with the devil to be reborn in our times.

7.2

Roma

Motorbike Rider (uncredited)

A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.

5.3

Story of a Cloistered Nun

Carmela Simoni

Refusing an arranged marriage, young aristocrat Carmela is sent to a convent. Her arrival intensifies the power struggle between the debauched nun Elizabeth and the stern Mother Superior, as both are smitten by Carmela's beauty.

7.1

Compagni di scuola

Valeria Donati

A group of former high school classmates meets for a reunion 15 years after graduation, only to discover that any innocence or friendship is long lost.

4.6

A Spiral of Mist

Lidia

The lovely Maria Teresa is unhappily married with the impotent lawyer Marcello. Maria Teresa's marriage is contrasted by the passionate Valeria, who is killed during a chase. Is Valeria's husband the murderer? Maria Teresa helps him..

6.4

Velvet Hands

Tilli

Engineer Quiller has become rich by selling his completely indestructible shop-window glass to jeweleries around the world. But this got him lots of enemies too: the insurance agencies, who've lost hundreds of customers, and the burglarers. When he temporarily looses his memory and voice in an accident, of all people, a family of thieves finds and cares for him - believing he's a pocket-picker. Things get complicated when he falls in love with his host Tilli.

6.1

The Black Belly of the Tarantula

Maid in beauty parlor

Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.

6.1

Grand Hotel Excelsior

Ilde Vivaldi

Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and falls in love with Maria. There is the Mago di Segrate trying to win world fame by levitating thirty meters high. And there is the waiter Egisto whose daughter is in a Swiss College believing her father is a man of importance.

4.7

The Sex Machine

Piera

The year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the world. No light… no heat… no T.V., until a team of award-winning scientists succeeds in harnessing energy from the world’s oldest source of reciprocating motion.

6.8

Yesterday - Vacanze al mare

Susy Armani

An old beachfront venue is about to close, a demolition that will take away not only the building's walls but also the memories and past of so many young people who spent unforgettable summers there. A group of young people who once enjoyed magical moments there decide to organize a party to celebrate this magical place: among them are the son of an industrialist who gambles away money, an aspiring actress chasing success, a quirky tennis coach, and many others, each driven by nostalgia for those bygone days.

5.6

Portrait of a Nude Woman

Laura / Riri

Sandro is a Roman adrift in Venice during the Carnival. After sixteen years of marriage, Sandro can no longer reconcile his spontaneous and lively character with that of his wife Laura, a cultured and composed Venetian woman. Yet another argument prompts him to leave her and seek refuge at the home of a painter friend. Among his many paintings, he notices one depicting a naked woman who bears an incredible resemblance to his wife. Are they two women or one, and in the masquerade of the Carnival, what is real?

4.2

Beyond the Door

Nina

A young woman trapped in a web of dark family secrets finds herself in a dangerous triangle of love, jealousy, and deception, where the truth hides in her past.

5.9

Heart of a Dog

Zina

Professor Preobrazhensky puts courageous experiences, trying to turn a dog in equal to in all of the person. As a result somebody turns out Doggies. Unfortunately, experience proves that it is better for dog to remain a dog.