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.
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
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.
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).
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)
References
External links
Official website