Alida Valli (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico, Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case, Ayn Rand's We the Living, Carol Reed's The Third Man, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido, Luchino Visconti's Senso, and Dario Argento's Suspiria.
Known For
The Third Man
(1949)
Anna Schmidt
Suspiria
(1977)
Miss Tanner
Luna
(1979)
Giuseppe's Mother
Oedipus Rex
(1967)
Merope
1900
(1976)
Signora Pioppi
The Cassandra Crossing
(1976)
Mrs. Chadwick
Eyes Without a Face
(1960)
Louise
Inferno
(1980)
Carol
The Antichrist
(1974)
Irene
Senso
(1954)
La Contessa Livia Serpieri
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(2012)
(archive footage)
The Paradine Case
(1947)
Mrs. Paradine
Indian Summer
(1972)
Marcella Abati - Vanina's mother
Il Grido
(1957)
Irma
Lisa and the Devil
(1973)
Contessa
Killer Nun
(1979)
Mother Superior
Full Filmography
Acting
Three Cornered Hat
(1935)
Il feroce saladino
(1937)
Dora Florida / La bella Sulamita
I Was to Blame
(1937)
Lauretta
La casa del peccato
(1938)
Girl
Il trovatello
(1938)
Maria
Mille lire al mese
(1939)
Magda
You Love Me, I Love You
(1939)
Vera Fabbri
Ballo al castello
(1939)
Greta Larsen
Manon Lescaut
(1940)
Manon Lescaut
Beyond Love
(1940)
Vanina Vanini
Schoolgirl Diary
(1941)
Anna Campolmi
Piccolo mondo antico
(1941)
Luisa Maironi
L'amante segreta
(1941)
Luce nelle tenebre
(1941)
Marina Ferri
We the Living, Part Two
(1942)
Kira Argounova
Catene invisibili
(1942)
We the Living, Part One
(1942)
Kira Argounova
Le due orfanelle
(1942)
Enrichetta
Stasera niente di nuovo
(1942)
Maria
I pagliacci
(1943)
Giulia
Apparizione
(1943)
Andreina
T'amerò sempre
(1943)
Adriana Rosé
Il canto della vita
(1945)
Giovanna
Life Begins Anew
(1945)
Patrizia Martini
Eugenia Grandet
(1946)
Eugenia Grandet
The Paradine Case
(1947)
Mrs. Paradine
The Miracle of the Bells
(1948)
Olga Treskovna
The Third Man
(1949)
Anna Schmidt
The Za-Bum Circus
(1949)
(segments "Gelosia", "Il postino" and "Galop finale al circo")
The White Tower
(1950)
Carla Alton (as Valli)
Walk Softly, Stranger
(1950)
Elaine Corelli
Miracles Only Happen Once
(1951)
Claudia
Last Meeting
(1951)
Lina Castelli
We, the Women
(1953)
Alida (segment "Alida Valli")
The Lovers of Toledo
(1953)
The World Condemns Them
(1953)
Renata Giustini
Senso
(1954)
La Contessa Livia Serpieri
The Stranger's Hand
(1954)
Roberta Gleukovitch
Il Grido
(1957)
Irma
The Wide Blue Road
(1957)
Rosetta, the Wife
This Angry Age
(1957)
Claude
The Night Heaven Fell
(1958)
Aunt Florentine
L'uomo dai calzoni corti
(1958)
Carolina
Signed, Arsène Lupin
(1959)
Aurélia Valéano
The Sons of Medea
(1959)
Medea / Alida Valli
Eyes Without a Face
(1960)
Louise
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
(1960)
Mère Thérèse de Saint-Augustin
Il peccato degli anni verdi
(1960)
madre di Elena
The Gigolo
(1960)
Agathe
The Happy Thieves
(1961)
Duchess Blanca
The Long Absence
(1961)
Thérèse Langlois
Disorder
(1962)
Carlo's Mother
Al otro lado de la ciudad
(1962)
Homage at Siesta Time
(1962)
Constance Fischer
La fille du torrent
(1962)
Ophélia
(1963)
Claudia Lesurf
The Paper Man
(1963)
La Italiana
The Castilian
(1963)
Reina Teresa
The Other Woman
(1964)
Annabel
Black Humor
(1965)
The Widow - segment 3 'La cornacchia'
Oedipus Rex
(1967)
Merope
The Spider's Stratagem
(1970)
Draifa
The Killer Strikes at Dawn
(1970)
Linda Benson
Indian Summer
(1972)
Marcella Abati - Vanina's mother
Eye in the Labyrinth
(1972)
Gerda
Lisa and the Devil
(1973)
Contessa
The Antichrist
(1974)
Irene
Tender Dracula
(1974)
Héloïse
It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game
(1974)
Louise
Flesh of the Orchid
(1975)
la folle de la gare
The House of Exorcism
(1975)
Countess (archive footage)
Cher Victor
(1975)
Anna
1900
(1976)
Signora Pioppi
The Cassandra Crossing
(1976)
Mrs. Chadwick
The Game of Solitaire
(1976)
Germaine
A Simple Heart
(1977)
Mrs. Obin
Berlinguer: I Love You
(1977)
Mamma di Mario
Suspiria
(1977)
Miss Tanner
The Perfect Crime
(1978)
Lady Clementine De Revere
Dirty World
(1978)
Teresina
Luna
(1979)
Giuseppe's Mother
Killer Nun
(1979)
Mother Superior
Zoo zéro
(1979)
Yvonne, la mère
Lycanthropus, the Son of the Night
(1979)
Inferno
(1980)
Carol
That House in the Outskirts
(1980)
Isabel
The Bailiff of Greifensee
(1980)
Marianne
Towards Zero
(1980)
Lady Camilla Tressilian
Season of Peace in Paris
(1981)
The Fall of the Rebel Angels
(1981)
Bettina
Illa - Punto d'osservazione
(1981)
Maria Dal Ponte
Forbidden Dreams
(1982)
Madre di Marina
Aspern
(1982)
Juliana Barther
Secrets Secrets
(1985)
Gina
Manuela's Loves
(1987)
Bacha
To Our Late Husband
(1988)
Catarina
Zitti e mosca
(1991)
Clara
La bocca
(1991)
Countess Bianca Rospigliosi
The Long Silence
(1993)
Carla's Mother
The Final Scoop
(1993)
Caterina, Andrea's mother
A Month by the Lake
(1995)
Signora Fascioli
Fatal Frames
(1996)
Countess Alessandra Mirafiori
The Sweet Sounds of Life
(1999)
Nonna di Sofia
Vino Santo – Es lebe die Liebe, es lebe der Wein
(2001)
Sveva Salvini
Probably Love
(2001)
Herself
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
(2001)
Self (archive footage)
Angel of Death
(2002)
Doña Catalina
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(2012)
(archive footage)
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
(2017)
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
(2021)
Self (archive footage)