Valeria Moriconi (née Abbruzzetti; November 15, 1931 – June 15, 2005) was an Italian actress who appeared both in movies and on stage.

Valeria Moriconi
Born
Valeria Abbruzzetti

(1931-11-15)15 November 1931
Iesi, Ancona, Kingdom of Italy
Died15 June 2005(2005-06-15) (aged 73)
Iesi, Italy
OccupationActress
Years active1953–2005
Spouse
Aldo Moriconi
(m. 1951; div. 1963)

Biography

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Valeria was born in Iesi, in Marche, central Italy. Her earliest work was as a stage actress. She was very young when she acted in an art company, but success came with the movies Gli Italiani si voltano and La Spiaggia. She won the Grolla d'oro award for Le soldatesse.[citation needed] She performed on stage in several plays at the Arlecchino Theater (now Flaiano), from Girotondo by Schnitzler and Per un amore a Roma by Patti to Arialda by Testori and directed by Luchino Visconti.[citation needed]

In the 1960s she met director Franco Enriquez and left her husband, Aldo Moriconi, for him. After Enriquez's death she loved Vittorio Spiga, a journalist from Bologna, and at her death he was at her bedside.[citation needed]

The president of the Italian Republic, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, nominated her Great Master of the Republic.[citation needed]

In 2000, she was the voice for the Pope's comments during the Via Crucis.[citation needed] In 1999, she received the Renato Simoni award. She worked until she died after suffering from bone cancer on June 15, 2005

Filmography

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Television

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References

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  Media related to Valeria Moriconi at Wikimedia Commons