Valeria Moriconi

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Valeria Moriconi (real name Valeria Abbruzzetti; 15 November 1931–15 June 2005) was an Italian actress. She was born in Jesi, in the Marche region, in the centre of Italy.

She was very young when she acted in an art company, but the success came with the movies Gli Italiani si voltano and La Spiaggia. She won the Golden Grolla award for Le soldatesse. She performed on stage in many theatrical plays at Arlecchino Theater (now Flaiano), from Girotondo of Schnitzler and Per un amore a Roma of Patti to Arialda of Testori and directed by Visconti.

In the 1960s she met the director Franco Enriquez and for him left her husband Aldo Moriconi. After Enriquez's death she loved Vittorio Spiga, a journalist of Bologna and at her death he was at her bed.

The president of Italian Republic, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, nominated her Great Master of Republic. In 2000 she was the voice for Papa's comments during Via Crucis. In 1999 she took the Renato Simoni award. She worked until the end of her life, notwithstanding illness (bone cancer), but on 7 June 2005 she was forced to interrupt her theater tour of Ibsen's with Gli Spettri.