Elisa Kadigia Bove
| Elisa Kadigia Bove | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mogadishu, Somalia |
| Residence | Italy |
| Occupation | actress, activist |
| Years active | 1960s–1980s |
Elisa Kadigia Bove is an Italian activist and voice and film actress.
Personal life
Bove is of Italian-Somali descent.[1] She is the second wife of Achille Occhetto, the former General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party.[2]
Bove is the mother of two boys, Malcolm and Massimiliano, both of whom were born in Sicily.[2]
Career
Bove began her film career acting in commercials. She first gained renown during a television campaign for Adantic, a popular 1970s brand.[3]
Bove later starred in a number of Italian feature films, particularly in the giallo horror genre. Of the latter, she appeared in the 1980 film Macabre by Lamberto Bava.[4]
Besides cinematic work, Bove is the president of the Associazione Donne Immigrate Africane (ADIA), a non-profit organization serving immigrant women in Italy.[5]
Filmography
- Macabre (1980)
- Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio (1983)
See also
References
- ↑ Women in the Resistance in Italy and Algeria (in Italian)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Biography|Achille Occhetto (in Italian)
- ↑ Sardoni, Alessandra (2009). Il fantasma del leader: D'Alema e gli altri capi mancati del centrosinistra. Marsilio. p. 37. ISBN 8831797301. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
- ↑ "BAISER MACABRE". Cine Horreur. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
- ↑ Immigration. Denying the role of women in culture. Interview with Kadgiga Bove and Pauline Aweto. (in Italian)