Actress Antonella Lualdi has died in hospital at the age of 92, Italian media announce. The actress was hospitalized in the Rome area. The French public knows her in particular for her role as Lucia, the wife of the commissioner portrayed by Pierre Mondy in the television series Les Cordier juge et cop, broadcast from 1992 to 2005. Thefuneral will take place on Saturday, July 12, in Rome.
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Born on July 6, 1931 in Beirut where her Italian father worked as a civil engineer, Antonella Lualdi grew up in Lebanon. She learned Arabic, Italian, French and became passionate about theatre. She began her career in the late 1940s and, in Italy, quickly became a star in the same way as Gina Lollobrigida or Lucia Bosé.
A role at Chabrol
On the other side of the Alps, she appeared in successful films such as Miracolo a Viggiù (1951) by Luigi Giachino, Ha fatto (1951) by Carlo Manzoni or La cieca di Sorrento (1953) by Giacomo Gentilomo. The actress also passes in front of the camera of renowned filmmakers. For a small role in Federico Fellini's Les Vitelloni (1953) and for a supporting role in Claude Chabrol's À double tour (1959). The director of the New Wave makes her play Leda, a young and pretty young woman who falls in love with a bourgeois and fickle husband, played by Jacques Dacqmine. Relationship that precipitates the fall of a tidy family.
In 1974, we also see Antonella Lualdi at Claude Sautet, in the whirlwind Vincent, François, Paul... and the others, with Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli and Gérard Depardieu. This prosperous period is followed by off-peak years when few projects are offered to him on the big screen. It returned to popularity decades later, in 1992. She became for the first time that year the Italian Lucia in the soap opera Les Cordier juge et cop. Antonella Lualdi will play this character until 2005.