Antonella Lualdi | |
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Born | Antonietta de Pascale 6 July 1931 Beirut, Lebanon |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1949 - present |
Antonella Lualdi (born on 6 July 1931) is an Italian film actress. Her luminescent beauty has graced many Italian and French films in the 1950s and 1960s, notably in Claude Autant-Lara's film Le rouge et le noir in 1954, opposite Gérard Philipe.
She was born Antonietta De Pascale in Beirut, Lebanon to an Italian father and a Greek mother, and grew up fluent in Arabic, French and Italian. She began her career in 1949, and married Italian actor Franco Interlenghi in 1955, with whom she had two daughters, Stella and Antonellina, the later also an actress.