Elena Altieri
Elena Altieri (actually Elena Capucci; * July 7, 1910 in Stresa Borromeo; † 1 May 1997 Nice) was an Italian actress.
Life
Altieri, whose mother is English, debuted shortly after her twentieth birthday on the canvas. She was in the late 1930s with her blond, tall, slender mannequin appearance one of the hopes of the Italian cinema, but these hopes could redeem only in a few works. She was next to Amedeo Nazzari the fiancée of wealthy relations in large Scarpe ( 1940). During the war, were partly due to insufficient role offers, partly through lack of interest in the offered characters that commitment to leading roles becoming less so Altieri played numerous supporting roles.
Even after the war, she played roles as routine feeling cold and haughty aristocrats of important directors such as Vittorio De Sica, Jean Renoir and Mario Mattoli. After several theater tasks besides Luigi Cimara and Andreina Paul, she finished in the late 1950s künstelerische their career.