[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]
Italian stage, film, TV and voice actress Rita di Lernia was 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 career 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 she was a teacher of vocal and speech education, and had among her 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 died in Spoleto, Umbria, Italy on November 5, 2025 at the age of 82.
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).
di LERNIA,
Rita (Maria Rita Bresadola de Lernia) [4/28/1943, Riccione, Rimini, Italy –
11/5/2025, Spoleto, Umbria, Italy
(Alzheimer's)] – theater, film, TV voice actress, married to actor and voice
actor Pietro Biondi [1939- ]
(19??-2025).
Patience has a Limit, We Don’t – 1974
(Isabel McDonald)
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