Veronica Lazăr
| Veronica Lazăr | |
|---|---|
 Lazăr as Mater Tenebrarum in Inferno | |
| Born |
October 16, 1938 Bucharest, Romania |
| Died | June 8, 2014 (aged 75) |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Years active | 1972-2014 |
| Spouse(s) | Adolfo Celi (1966-1986) (his death) 2 children |
Veronica Lazăr (16 October 1938 - 8 June 2014) was a Romanian born Italian actress.
She made her debut as Marlon Brando's deceased wife in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (1972), and also appeared in some of the director's subsequent films, La Luna (1979), The Sheltering Sky (1990), and Besieged (1998).[1] Lazăr is probably best known for her role as the demonic Mater Tenebrarum in Dario Argento's Inferno (1980),[1] and she later appeared in Argento's The Stendhal Syndrome (1996). Her other films included Lucio Fulci's The Beyond (1981) and Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman (1982).[1]
She married Italian actor Adolfo Celi in 1966 and had two children with him, director Leonardo Celi and actress Alessandra Celi.[1] Her last role was in Bertolucci's Me and You (2012).[1]
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