Eleonora Rossi Drago

Eleonora Rossi Drago
File:Estateviolenta1959-Drago cropped.jpg Rossi Drago in Estate Violenta
Born	Palmira Omiccioli (1925-09-23)23 September 1925 Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy
Died	Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Cause of death	Cerebral hemorrhage

Eleonora Rossi Drago, born Palmira Omiccioli, (23 September 1925 – 2 December 2007) was an Italian film actress. She was born in Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy, and had the leading role in Michelangelo Antonioni's Le amiche. She worked with Pietro Germi in Un maledetto imbroglio. In 1960, for her performance in Valerio Zurlini's Estate violenta she won the best actress prize of the Mar del Plata Film Festival and the Nastro d'argento. In 1964, she appeared in an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, The Citadel. She died in Palermo, Italy.

Selected filmography

• Due sorelle amano (1950)
• Behind Closed Shutters (1951)
• Verginità (1952)
• The Flame (1952)
• Three Forbidden Stories (1952)
• Girls Marked Danger (1952)
• Barefoot Savage (1952)
• Vestire gli ignudi (1953)
• Daughters of Destiny (1954)
• L'affaire Maurizius (1954)
• Le Amiche (1955)
• The Awakening (1956)
• La Tour, prends garde ! (1958)
• The Road a Year Long (1958)
• The Employee (1959)
• Winter Holidays (1959)
• Dagli Appennini alle Ande (1959)
• The Facts of Murder (1959)
• David and Goliath (1960)
• La garçonnière (1960)
• Under Ten Flags (1960)
• Sword of the Conqueror (1961)
• Pigeon Shoot (1961)
• I Don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra (1962)
• Love at Twenty (1962)
• Anima nera (1962)
• de (1963)
• Il disco volante (1964)
• Let's Talk About Women (1964)
• Love and Marriage (1964)
• La Cittadella (TV, 1964)
• Assassination in Rome (1965)
• Su e giù (1965)
• El Diablo también llora (1965)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (1965)
• The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)
• Love Problems (1968)
• Camille 2000 (1969)
• Dorian Gray (1970)

External links

• Eleonora Rossi Drago at the Internet Movie Database
• Eleonora Rossi Drago at AllMovie