Daria Nicolodi
Daria Nicolodi (19 June 1950 – 26 November 2020) was an Italian television and film actress and screenwriter, and associated mostly with the films of director Dario Argento.
Also recorded as Dana Nicolodi
Daria Nicolodi

Dario Argento (director), Luigi Kuveiller (cinematographer), Seda Spettacoli (production) · Screenshot taken by Spinoziano from the film. · Public domain
- Name
- Daria Nicolodi
- Born
- 19 June 1950
- Birthplace
- Florence, Italy
- Died
- 26 November 2020
- Place of death
- Rome, Italy
- Occupation
- * Actress
- Nationality
- Italy
- Education
- Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico
- Languages
- Italian
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Daria Nicolodi (19 June 1950 – 26 November 2020) was an Italian television and film actress and screenwriter, and associated mostly with the films of director Dario Argento.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Daria Nicolodi • Born — 19 June 1950 • Birthplace — Florence, Italy • Died — 26 November 2020 • Place of death — Rome, Italy • Years Active — 1970–2020 • Occupation — * Actress • screenwriter • Partner — Mario Ceroli (1971–1974) Dario Argento (1974–1985) • Children — * Anna Ceroli • Asia Argento • Relatives — Alfredo Casella (grandfather)
Early life and career
Early life and career
Daria Nicolodi was born in Florence on 19 June 1950. Her father was a Florentine lawyer and her mother, Fulvia, was a scholar of ancient languages. Her maternal grandfather was composer Alfredo Casella. She moved to Rome in the late 1960s. In 1970, she participated in the television variety show Babau which was shelved and only broadcast by RAI six years later. She made her screen debut the same year in Francesco Rosi's Many Wars Ago. In 1973, she starred in Elio Petri's Property Is No Longer a Theft. She also appeared in TV productions, such as the miniseries Nicotera, Without a Trace with Rossano Brazzi (1972), Portrait of a Veiled Woman with Nino Castelnuovo (1975), the drama Saturnino Farandola with Mariano Rigillo (1978), and Rosaura at 10 (1981). Nicolodi starred in five films directed by Dario Argento between 1975 and 1987: Deep Red (1975), Inferno (1980), Tenebrae (1982), Phenomena (1985) and Opera (1987). She later stressed that the screenplays for Argento's Suspiria and Inferno owed many ideas to her authorship, but received writing credit only for the former. During this time, she also appeared in Shock, the final film of Italian horror director Mario Bava. After her relationship with Argento ended in 1985, Nicolodi participated in such films as Macaroni, Notes of Love and her daughter Asia Argento's Scarlet Diva. In 2007, Nicolodi worked with Asia on Dario Argento's Mother of Tears, the sequel to Suspiria and Inferno.
Personal life and death
Personal life and death
• Illustration — Nicolodi photographed by Paolo Monti in 1970. In the early 1970s, she had a relationship with the sculptor Mario Ceroli. They had a daughter, Anna, who was born in 1972 and died in a 1994 traffic accident. Nicolodi had a professional and private 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. Nicolodi died in Rome on 26 November 2020 at the age of 70 from undisclosed causes.
Filmography
Filmography
Film • Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1970 — Many Wars Ago — Red Cross nurse — Film debut • 1972 — Salomè — Unnamed role • 1973 — Property Is No Longer a Theft — Anita • 1975 — Deep Red — Gianna Brezzi • 1977 — Suspiria — Woman at airport (uncredited) — Also writer (screenplay) • 1977 — Shock — Dora Baldini • 1980 — Inferno — Elisa De Longvalle Adler — Also writer (story; uncredited) • 1981 — Il minestrone — Eleonora • 1982 — Tenebrae — Anne • 1985 — Phenomena — Frau Brückner • 1985 — Macaroni — Laura Di Falco • 1987 — Delirium — Evelyn • 1987 — Opera — Mira • 1989 — Sinbad of the Seven Seas — Narrator • 1989 — Paganini Horror — Sylvia Hackett — Also writer (screenplay) • 1989 — The Black Cat — Writer (uncredited) • 1991 — The Devil's Daughter — Unnamed role • 1992 — The End Is Known — Avv. Mila • 1998 — Viola Kisses Everybody — Sibilla • 1998 — Notes of Love — Angela's mother • 2000 — Scarlet Diva — Anna's mother • 2000 — Rosa and Cornelia — Eleonora • 2004 — Soleado (short film) — Ms. Fogoni • 2007 — Mother of Tears — Elisa Mandy Television • Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1972 — I Nicotera — Alessandra — Miniseries (5 episodes) • 1975 — Ritratto di donna velata — Elisa — Miniseries (5 episodes) • 1977 — Saturnino Farandola — Unknown/unnamed role — Miniseries (4 episodes) • 1978 — Aspetterò — Eve Cresso — Television film • 1979 — I giochi del diavolo — Clara — Miniseries (1 episode) • 1979 — Tre ore dopo le nozze — Townley — Television film • 1981 — Rosaura alle 10 — Unnamed/unknown role — Television film • 1982 — The Life of Verdi — Margherita Barezzi — Miniseries (9 episodes) • 1985 — Sogni e bisogni — Litizia — Miniseries (1 episode) • 1987 — Turno di notte — Unknown/unnamed role — Season 1 (guest role – 1 episode) • 1991 — Adventures of the Little Mermaid — Narrator/Queen Camilla (voice) — Italian dub; Season 1 (26 episodes) • 1999 — Alta tensione — Preside — Miniseries (1 episode) • 2009 — Inspector Coliandro — Professor Moline — Season 3 (guest role – 1 episode) • 2009 — Il mostro di Firenze — La sensitiva — Miniseries (1 episode)
Identity
Identity
Daria Nicolodi is recorded with the occupation film producer. Recorded as actress, screenwriter, film producer and singer.

Italian actress Daria Nicolodi
Italian magazine Radiocorriere

Italian actress Daria Nicolodi
Marcello Norbert · Italian magazine Radiocorriere
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1950
Daria Nicolodi was born on 19 June 1950.
2020
Daria Nicolodi died on 26 November 2020.
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Florence.
Birth place
Rome.
Death place
Legacy
In 2012, the retrospective Argento: Il Cinema Nel Sangue was held at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. It highlighted Nicolodi's contribution to Dario Argento's films as well as that of his father (Salvatore), brother (Claudio) and daughter (Asia).
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