Elsa Martinelli (3 August 1932 or 30 January 1935, according to different sources) was an Italian actress and former fashion model.Born Elisa Tia in Grosseto, Tuscany, she moved to Rome with her family and in 1953 was discovered by Roberto Capucci who introduced her to the world of fashion. She became a model and began playing small roles in films. She appeared in Claude Autant-Laras Le Rouge et le noir (1954), but her first important film role came the following year with The Indian Fighter opposite Kirk Douglas. Douglas claims to have spotted her on a magazine cover and hired her for his production company, Bryna Productions. In 1956 she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival for playing the title role in Mario Monicellis Donatella.From the mid 1950s through the late 1960s, she divided her time between Europe and the USA appearing films such as Four Girls in Town (1957) with George Nader, Manuela (1957) with Trevor Howard, Prisoner of the Volga (1959) with John Derek, Hatari! (1962) with John Wayne, The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962) with Charlton Heston, The Trial with Anthony Perkins, The V.I.P.s (1963) with Orson Welles, Rampage (1963) with Robert Mitchum, and Woman Times Seven (1967) with Lex Barker. In Candy (1968), her co-stars were Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James Coburn, Walter Matthau and Ringo Starr.Since the late 1960s, she has worked in Europe in mostly foreign language productions. Her last English language role was as Carla the Agent in 1992s Once Upon a Crime. Her most recent appearance was in the 2005 European television series Orgoglio as the Duchessa di Monteforte.Martinelli was first married to Count Franco Mancinelli Scotti di San Vito, by whom she has a daughter, Cristiana Mancinelli (born 1958), also an actress. She later was married to the Paris Match photographer and 1970s furniture designer Willy Rizzo.Description above from the Wikipedia article Elsa Martinelli, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Hilda
Film 1962
Vic Shaw
Film 1968
Self (archive footage)
Film 1968
Elsa
Film 1970
Anna Maria 'Dallas' D'Allesandro
Film 1962
Gloria Gritti
Film 1963
Olga
Film 1965
Gisèle d'Angoulême
Film 1960
Onahti
Film 1955
Georgia Monteverdi
Film 1960
Carla Razzi
Film 1985
Belle Starr
Film 1968
Annie
Film 1968
Anna
Film 1963
Maria Antonelli
Film 1957
Carla the Agent
Film 1992
Elena
Film 1956
Antonella Massimo
Film 1962
Carla Nervi
Film 1969
(archive)
Film 1993
Sylvia
Film 1965
Mathilde
Film 1964
Donatella
Film 1956
(uncredited)
Film 1954
Film 2013
Laureen
Film 1967
The Woman with the Whip
Film 1965
Juliette
Film 1965
Mascha
Film 1959
Gilberte de Baer
Film 1969
Livia
Film 1968
Lucia
Film 1958
Gisèle d'Angoulême
Film 1963
Inés de Suárez
Film 1971
Manuela Hunt
Film 1957
Annelise
Film 1979
Film 1962
Lucile
Film 1961
Sonia
Film 1965
Mirella
Film 1960
L'indossatrice romana
Film 1960
Zobeida
Film 1976
Doriana
Film 1959
Annie
Film 1971
Diana
Film 1959
Kathy Sands
Film 1959
Jane Bleeker
Film 1969
Self
Film 1966
Self
Film 2003
Anna (segment "L'indossatrice")
Film 1953
Self
Tv 1976
Renata Lucci
Tv 1978
Maria Kuzenkov
Tv 1964
Self
Tv 1971
Self - Host
Tv 1951
Self
Tv 1956
Self
Tv 1971