Eleonora Giorgi

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Eleonora Giorgi
Giorgi in 1975
Born	(1953-10-21)21 October 1953 Rome, Italy
Died	3 March 2025(2025-03-03) (aged 71) Rome, Italy
Occupation(s)	Actress, film director
Years active	1971–2018
Spouse(s)	Angelo Rizzoli (1979–1983, 1 child) Massimo Ciavarro (1993–1996, 1 child)
Partner	Andrea De Carlo (1996–2007)

Eleonora Giorgi (21 October 1953 – 3 March 2025) was an Italian actress and film director.

Giorgi was born in Rome, Italy. Her father was of Italian and English origin.^[1] Her mother was of Italian and Hungarian origin.^[1][2][3]

She made her film debut in a minor role in Paolo Cavara's horror film Black Belly of the Tarantula (1970) and subsequently appeared in nearly fifty films, mostly in prominent roles. She first starred in Domenico Paolella's Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973), an important nunsploitation, at age eighteen. She then took part in The Kiss, a fantasy drama directed by Mario Lanfranchi, and in erotic comedies such as Salvatore Samperi's La sbandata (1974), in which she plays near Domenico Modugno and Luciana Paluzzi, Luciano Salce's Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno (1974), Pasquale Festa Campanile's The Sex Machine (U.S. title: Love and Energy) (1975) and Gianluigi Calderone's Appassionata, that definitively gained her the public acclaim.

Roles in movies like Franco Brusati's To Forget Venice^[4] (1979), Dario Argento's Inferno (1980), Nino Manfredi's Portrait of a Woman, Nude (1981), and Liliana Cavani's Beyond the Door (1982) are some of her most known and remarkable dramatic performances but in the beginning of the eighties, Giorgi decides to rejoin comedy. She's near Adriano Celentano in Velvet Hands and Grand Hotel Excelsior; for her performance in Carlo Verdone's Talcum Powder (1982), she won the Nastro d'Argento award and David di Donatello award for Best Actress.

In 2003, Giorgi wrote and directed her first film Uomini & donne, amori & bugie (U.S. title: Love, Lies, Kids... & Dogs), with Ornella Muti.

After suffering from pancreatic cancer since late 2023, Giorgi died on March 3, 2025, aged 71.^[5]

In 1974 Giorgi lost her boyfriend, fellow actor Alessandro Momo, to a motorcycle accident.^[6]

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^[6].

She was in a relationship with writer Andrea De Carlo between 1996 and 2007^[6].

• "Quale appuntamento/Messaggio Personale" – Dischi Ricordi (1981)

Media related to Eleonora Giorgi at Wikimedia Commons

• Eleonora Giorgi at IMDb
• Eleonora Giorgi discography at Discogs