Italian stage, film, TV and voice actress Rita di Lernia
died in Spoleto, Umbria, Italy on November 5th. She was 82. Born Maria
Rita Bresadola de Lernia on April 28, 1943, in Riccione, Rimini, Italy she graduated
from the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Rome in 1962 and immediately
started her acting careers in the theatrical field, working over the years with
the Stabili theaters of Genoa, Turin and Milan and for television. As a film
actress she began her career in 1966 and retired in 2002. She had been part of
the cast of a dozen films with important roles, including “The Monster”
alongside Roberto Benigni and Nicoletta Braschi and in “Ciao nì!”, in the part
of Renato Zero's mother. As a voice actress she lent her voice to Marie Laforêt
in The Miser and to Fanny Ardant in Claude Lelouch's film Bolero. She was
director of the Teatro 23 School together with Lorenza Biella and Riccardo
Cavallo; in the same school he was a teacher of vocal and speech education, and
had among his students Monica Bellucci, Claudia Koll and Neri Marcorè. She
retired in 2015, after being stricken with Alzheimer's disease. Rita was
married to voice actor Pietro Biondi. Rita di Lernia appeared in only one
Spaghetti western as Isabel McDonald in 1974’s “La pazienza ha un limite… noi
no!” (Patience has a Limit, We Don’t).
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