Ada Colangeli

{{Short description|Italian character actress}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Ada Colangeli

| image = Ada_Colangeli_54.jpg

| birth_date = {{birth date|1913|3|5|df=y}}

| birth_place = Rome, Kingdom of Italy

| death_date = {{death date and age|1992|2|29|1913|3|5|df=y}}

| death_place = Rome, Italy

| occupation = Actress

}}

Ada Colangeli (5 March 1913 – 29 February 1992) was an Italian character actress.

Life and career

Born on 5 March 1913 in Rome, Colangeli began acting in the early 1940s, and she was mainly cast in roles of women from a low social class.{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano, Le Attrici|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=888440214X|pages=81–82}} Active for about twenty years, she often collaborated with the director Alessandro Blasetti, of whom she was a real life friend. Her credits also include works by Federico Fellini, Luigi Zampa, Luigi Comencini, Carlo Lizzani and Mario Camerini.

She died on the leap day of 1992, five days before her 79th birthday.

Selected filmography

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