RIP Eleonora Giorgi

 

Italian director and actress Eleonora Giorgi died in Rome on March 3^rd she was 71. Born in Rome on October 21, 1953, Giorgi had a long and varied career in Italian cinema and television, appearing in dozens of films in the 1970s and 1980s, many of which were comedies and erotic comedies, as well as taking on dramatic roles. Her best-known films include “Mia moglie è una strega” (1980), “Grand Hotel Excelsior” (1982), and “Borotalco” (1982), for which she won the David di Donatello award and remembered it as "the most beautiful role of my career". Giorgi was married from 1979-1983 to film producer and publisher Angelo Rizzoli, with whom she had a son, Andrea (born 1980). In 1991 she had another son, Paolo, by actor Massimo Ciavarro, to whom she was married from 1993-1996. She had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003 and had battled the disease for years. She appeared in only one Spaghetti western “The Three Musketeers of the West” in 1973 as the lover in the opening scene.