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Alida Valli

1921 - 2006

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Baroness Alida Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), better known by her stage name Alida Valli, or simply Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films in a 70-year career, spanning from the 1930s to the early 2000s. She was one of the biggest stars of Italian film during the Fascist era, once being called "the most beautiful woman in the world" by Benito Mussolini, and was internationally successful post-World War II. According to Frédéric Mitterrand, Valli was the only actress in Europe to equal Marlene Dietrich or Greta Garbo. Valli worked with many significant directors both in Italy and abroad, including Alfred Hitchcock (The Paradine Case; 1947), Carol Reed (The Third Man; 1949), Luchino Visconti (Senso; 1954), Michelangelo Antonioni (Il Grido; 1957), Georges Franju (Eyes Without a Face; 1960), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Oedipus Rex; 1967), Mario Bava (Lisa and the Devil; 1972), Bernardo Bertolucci (1900, 1976; La Luna; 1979), and Dario Argento (Suspiria; 1977). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alida Valli is the 513th most popular actor (down from 472nd in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Croatia (up from 26th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Croatian Actor.

Alida Valli is most famous for her role in "The Third Man" by Carol Reed.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Alida Valli ranks 513 out of 13,578. Before her are Ali MacGraw, Robert Carlyle, Alan Arkin, Peter Stormare, Kevin Kline, and Tobin Bell. After her are Gian Maria Volonté, Daniel Auteuil, Arthur Kennedy, Ray Stevenson, Richard Kiel, and Richard Griffiths.

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Among people born in 1921, Alida Valli ranks 46. Before her are Satyajit Ray, Deborah Kerr, Jane Russell, Marija Gimbutas, Vasily Stalin, and Jean-Marie Balestre. After her are Lotfi A. Zadeh, Georges Brassens, Kenneth Arrow, James Jones, Abdul Salam Arif, and Sugar Ray Robinson. Among people deceased in 2006, Alida Valli ranks 36. Before her are Muriel Spark, Clay Regazzoni, Robert Altman, Joseph Barbera, Bülent Ecevit, and Paul Mauriat. After her are Clifford Geertz, Seymour Martin Lipset, Claude Jade, Romano Mussolini, Telmo Zarra, and Markus Wolf.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Alida Valli ranks 25 out of 700. Before her are Luka Modrić (1985), Aloysius Stepinac (1898), Crispus (305), Svetozar Boroević (1856), Rade Šerbedžija (1946), and Mario Andretti (1940). After her are Georg von Trapp (1880), Davor Šuker (1968), Miroslav Krleža (1893), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934), Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (1968), and Sylva Koscina (1933).

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Among ACTORS In Croatia

Among actors born in Croatia, Alida Valli ranks 3. Before her are Laura Antonelli (1941), and Rade Šerbedžija (1946). After her are Sylva Koscina (1933), Mira Furlan (1955), Zlatko Burić (1953), María Baxa (1946), Goran Višnjić (1972), Slavko Štimac (1960), Luka Peroš (1976), Oja Kodar (1941), and Filip Šovagović (1966).

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