Daria Nicolodi

Daria Nicolodi (born June 19, 1950) is an Italian actress and screenwriter.

Daria Nicolodi was born in Florence on June 19, 1950. Her father was a Florentine lawyer and her mother, Fulvia, was a scholar of ancient languages. Her maternal grandfather was composer Alfredo Casella.[1][2] She moved to Rome in the late sixties.

In 1970 she participated in the television variety show Babau in four episodes, written by Poli Paul and Ida Omboni and directed by Vito Molinari, because of program content deemed outrageous at the time the show was "archived" and broadcast by RAI, only six years later. In the early seventies Nicolodi had some significant work in the cinema and theater under the guidance of Elio Petri. Also in the same year, Nicolodi participated in some TV productions, such as the serial story Nicotera, Without a Trace with Rossano Brazzi, Portrait of a Veiled Woman, with Nino Castelnuovo (1975), The Drama Saturnino Nana, Rigillo with Mario (1978), Rosaura at 10 (1981) and the film Shock, Mario Bava's last work (1978). Nicolodi participated as an actress and writer, all movies directed by director Dario Argento from 1975 to 1987: Deep Red 1975, Suspiria (1977), Inferno (1980 film), Tenebrae (film) 1982, Phenomena (film) 1985, Opera (film) 1987. After her relationship with Argento in 1985, Nicolodi participated in a few occasional thriller / horror (Paganini Horror, The picture of Joy), exploiting its aura of dark lady of the genre films and some films, (Macaroni, The end is known, of Love), and in recent years, movies directed by her daughter Asia. In 2007, Nicolodi made a come back to the cinema, working with her daughter Asia Argento in the movie The Mother of Tears, the sequel to Suspiria and Inferno.

In the early seventies, she had a relationship with the sculptor Mario Ceroli; their daughter Anna was born in 1973 (she died in a 1994 car accident). Nicolodi had a professional and romantic relationship with director Dario Argento; they met in 1974 during casting for the film Deep Red, and their daughter Asia was born in 1975. They separated in 1985.

Her official website: http://www.darianicolodi.it/ (Italian)