Delia Boccardo

Delia Boccardo
Delia Boccardo
	Boccardo in Between Miracles (1971)
Born	29 January 1948 (age 76); Genoa, Italy
Occupation	Actress

Delia Boccardo (born 29 January 1948) is an Italian film, television and stage actress.

Life and career

Born in Genoa, 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, England.^[1] In 1965 she moved to Rome where she attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.^[1]

Boccardo made her film debut in 1966, in the Spaghetti Western Death Walks in Laredo; she made her stage debut in 1967, alongside Raf Vallone in Uno sguardo dal ponte.^[1] From the mid-1980s she focused her appearances on stage, where she worked intensively with Luca Ronconi,^[2] and on television.^[1]

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 Adventurers (1970) - Caroline de Coyne
Una macchia rosa (1970) - Livia
The Cannibals (1970) - Ismene
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 (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 (1982) - Barbara
Nostalghia (1983) - Domenico's Wife
Hercules (1983) - Athena
The Assisi Underground (1985) - Countess Cristina
Blood Ties (1986, TV Movie) - Sara Salina
The Secret of the Sahara (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
Dichiarazioni d'amore (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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Enrico Lancia. Le attrici: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 888440214X.
^ Felice Cappa; Piero Gelli; Marco Mattarozzi. Dizionario Dello Spettacolo Del '900. Baldini Castoldi Dalai, 1998. ISBN 8880892959.