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
Suspiria
(1977)
Miss Tanner
The Third Man
(1949)
Anna Schmidt
Inferno
(1980)
Carol
The Antichrist
(1974)
Irene
1900
(1976)
Signora Pioppi
Eyes Without a Face
(1960)
Louise
The Paradine Case
(1947)
Mrs. Paradine
Luna
(1979)
Giuseppe's Mother
The Cassandra Crossing
(1976)
Mrs. Chadwick
Senso
(1954)
La Contessa Livia Serpieri
Oedipus Rex
(1967)
Merope
Indian Summer
(1972)
Marcella Abati - Vanina's mother
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(2012)
(archive footage)
Killer Nun
(1979)
Mother Superior
Lisa and the Devil
(1973)
Contessa
Il Grido
(1957)
Irma
Full Filmography
Acting
Three Cornered Hat
(1935)
I Was to Blame
(1937)
Lauretta
Il feroce saladino
(1937)
Dora Florida / La bella Sulamita
Il trovatello
(1938)
Maria
La casa del peccato
(1938)
Girl
Mille lire al mese
(1939)
Magda
You Love Me, I Love You
(1939)
Vera Fabbri
Ballo al castello
(1939)
Greta Larsen
Beyond Love
(1940)
Vanina Vanini
Manon Lescaut
(1940)
Manon Lescaut
Luce nelle tenebre
(1941)
Marina Ferri
Piccolo mondo antico
(1941)
Luisa Maironi
Schoolgirl Diary
(1941)
Anna Campolmi
L'amante segreta
(1941)
We the Living, Part One
(1942)
Kira Argounova
We the Living, Part Two
(1942)
Kira Argounova
Le due orfanelle
(1942)
Enrichetta
Catene invisibili
(1942)
Stasera niente di nuovo
(1942)
Maria
T'amerò sempre
(1943)
Adriana Rosé
I pagliacci
(1943)
Giulia
Apparizione
(1943)
Andreina
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 Za-Bum Circus
(1949)
(segments "Gelosia", "Il postino" and "Galop finale al circo")
The Third Man
(1949)
Anna Schmidt
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
L'uomo dai calzoni corti
(1958)
Carolina
The Night Heaven Fell
(1958)
Aunt Florentine
The Sons of Medea
(1959)
Medea / Alida Valli
Signed, Arsène Lupin
(1959)
Aurélia Valéano
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
(1960)
Mère Thérèse de Saint-Augustin
Il peccato degli anni verdi
(1960)
madre di Elena
The Gigolo
(1960)
Agathe
Eyes Without a Face
(1960)
Louise
The Happy Thieves
(1961)
Duchess Blanca
The Long Absence
(1961)
Thérèse Langlois
Disorder
(1962)
Carlo's Mother
Homage at Siesta Time
(1962)
Constance Fischer
Al otro lado de la ciudad
(1962)
La fille du torrent
(1962)
The Castilian
(1963)
Reina Teresa
The Paper Man
(1963)
La Italiana
Ophélia
(1963)
Claudia Lesurf
The Other Woman
(1964)
Annabel
Black Humor
(1965)
The Widow - segment 3 'La cornacchia'
Oedipus Rex
(1967)
Merope
The Killer Strikes at Dawn
(1970)
Linda Benson
The Spider's Stratagem
(1970)
Draifa
Indian Summer
(1972)
Marcella Abati - Vanina's mother
Eye in the Labyrinth
(1972)
Gerda
Lisa and the Devil
(1973)
Contessa
It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game
(1974)
Louise
Tender Dracula
(1974)
Héloïse
The Antichrist
(1974)
Irene
The House of Exorcism
(1975)
Countess (archive footage)
Cher Victor
(1975)
Anna
Flesh of the Orchid
(1975)
la folle de la gare
The Game of Solitaire
(1976)
Germaine
The Cassandra Crossing
(1976)
Mrs. Chadwick
1900
(1976)
Signora Pioppi
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
Killer Nun
(1979)
Mother Superior
Luna
(1979)
Giuseppe's Mother
Lycanthropus, the Son of the Night
(1979)
Zoo zéro
(1979)
Yvonne, la mère
Towards Zero
(1980)
Lady Camilla Tressilian
That House in the Outskirts
(1980)
Isabel
Inferno
(1980)
Carol
The Bailiff of Greifensee
(1980)
Marianne
Season of Peace in Paris
(1981)
The Fall of the Rebel Angels
(1981)
Bettina
Illa - Punto d'osservazione
(1981)
Maria Dal Ponte
Aspern
(1982)
Juliana Barther
Forbidden Dreams
(1982)
Madre di Marina
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 Final Scoop
(1993)
Caterina, Andrea's mother
The Long Silence
(1993)
Carla'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
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
(2001)
Self (archive footage)
Probably Love
(2001)
Herself
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)