Xenia Valderi (21 January 1926 – 3 November 2008) was a Dalmatian Italian actress.
Early life The daughter of a Dalmatian Italian father and German mother, Xenia Valderi (née Valdameri) was born at Split in today's Croatia. She moved to Rome as a young woman after World War II, for a career in acting.
Career Xenia Valderi (she used a shorter version of her original surname) appeared regularly in Italian films of the 1950s and 1960s, including Gianni Puccini's The Captain of Venice (1951), Mario Amendola and Ruggero Maccari's Il tallone di Achille (1952), Carlo Borghesio's The Steel Rope (1953), Luigi Comencini's La valigia dei sogni (1953), Luigi Zampa's Woman of Rome (1954) with Gina Lollabrigida,"Woman of Rome" Screen World 8(1957): 210. Lionello De Felice's Too Young for Love (1955),"Too Young For Love; Glen" Kansas City Times (August 6, 1955): 4. via Newspapers.com De Felice's Desperate Farewell (1955), Federico Fellini's Il Bidone (1955), De Felice's 100 Years of Love (1954), Mario Mattoli's Move and I'll Shoot (1958), Mattoli's Non perdiamo la testa (1959), Lucio Fulci's The Swindlers (1963), Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert (1964), with Monica Vitti and Richard Harris,Seymour Chatman, Paul Duncan, Michelangelo Antonioni: The Investigation (Taschen 2004): 187. and Ettore Maria Fizzarotti Mi vedrai tornare (1966). She was specialized in bourgeois, snobby and often scatterbrained characters. She was also featured in some Italian television programs and on the musical comedy stage."I Lupi (The Wolves)" World Premières (UNESCO, May 1962): 117.
Personal life and death Xenia Valderi was said to be romantically involved with fellow actor Jacques Sernas in 1954."Louella's Movie Go-Round" Albuquerque Journal (April 2, 1954): 44. via Newspapers.com
Valderi died in Castelnuovo di Porto on 3 November 2008, at the age of 87.
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