Delia Boccardo

Delia Boccardo (born 29 January 1948) is an Italian film, television and stage actress.

Delia Boccardo
Boccardo in Between Miracles (1971)
Born	(1948-01-29) 29 January 1948 (age 77) Genoa, Italy
Occupation	Actress

Life and career

Born in Genoa, Boccardo spent her childhood and adolescence in Nervi, then studied at a Swiss college, at the Poggio Imperiale girls' school and, for about three years, at a college in Sussex, England.^[1] In 1965 she moved to Rome where she attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.^[1]

Boccardo made her film debut in 1966, in the Spaghetti Western Death Walks in Laredo; she made her stage debut in 1967, alongside Raf Vallone in Uno sguardo dal ponte.^[1] From the mid-1980s she focused her appearances on stage, where she worked intensively with Luca Ronconi,^[2] and on television.^[1]

Partial filmography

• Death Walks in Laredo (1966) - Mady
• The Wild Eye (1967) - Barbara Bates
• Inspector Clouseau (1968) - Lisa Morrel
• Rose Spot (1969) - Livia
• Detective Belli (1969) - Sandy Bronson
• The Year of the Cannibals (1969) - Ismene
• The Adventurers (1970) - Caroline de Coyne
• Strogoff (1970) - Sangarre
• Between Miracles (1971) - Giovanna Visciani
• Equinozio (1971) - Anna / Una ragazza in riva al mare
• Stress (1971)
• Snow Job (1972) - Lorraine Borman
• Panhandle 38 (1972) - Connie Briscott
• High Crime (1973) - Mirella
• Massacre in Rome (1973) - Elena
• Shoot First, Die Later (1974) - Sandra
• A Black Ribbon for Deborah (1974) - Mira Wener
• La mazurka del barone, della santa e del fico fiorone (1975) - Redheaded prostitute / The 'saint'
• The Last Day of School Before Christmas (1975) - Germana
• Silent Action (1975) - Maria
• Il caso Raoul (1975) - Delia
• Giovannino (1976)
• A Woman at Her Window (1976) - Dora Cooper
• Tentacles (1977) - Vicky Gleason
• Improvviso (1979) - La Tedesca
• Martin Eden (1979) - Ruth Morse
• The Day Christ Died (1980, TV Movie) - Mary Magdelene
• Roma dalla finestra (1982) - Olga
• Aphrodite (1982) - Barbara
• Nostalghia (1983) - Domenico's Wife
• Hercules (1983) - Athena
• The Assisi Underground (1985) - Countess Cristina
• Blood Ties (1986, TV Movie) - Sara Salina
• The Secret of the Sahara (1987, TV Mini-Series) - Yasmine
• Sposi (1988) - Assunta
• Cavalli si nasce (1989) - La Baronessa
• L'isola alla deriva (1989) - Madamoiselle
• The Week of the Sphinx (1990) - Sara
• Il nodo alla cravatta (1991)
• The Return of Casanova (1992) - Amelie
• Declarations of Love (1994) - Adult Sandra
• Fade out (Dissolvenza al nero) (1994)
• Questo è il giardino (1999) - Carlo's mother
• Empty Eyes (2001) - Marco's Mother
• Virginia, la monaca di Monza (2004, TV Movie) - Virginia's mother