Elena Cotta

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| name = Elena Cotta

| image = Coppavolpielena.jpeg

| caption = Cotta at the 70th Venice International Film Festival

| birth_name = Elena Cotta Ramusino

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1931|8|19|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Milan, Kingdom of Italy

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| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1951–present

| spouse = {{ubl|{{marriage|Carlo Alighiero|1952|2021|reason=died}}}}

| children = 2

| awards = Volpi Cup {{small|(2013)}}

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Elena Cotta (born 19 August 1931) is an Italian stage, film and television actress.

Life and career

Born in Milan, Italy, at a young age Cotta won a scholarship to attend the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico;{{cite news|last=Arianna Finos |title=A 82 anni battere Judi Dench è una soddisfazione |url=http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/news/dettaglio/a-82-anni-battere-judi-dench-e-una-soddisfazione/435530 |access-date=8 September 2013 |newspaper=La Repubblica |date=8 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211161440/http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/news/dettaglio/a-82-anni-battere-judi-dench-e-una-soddisfazione/435530 |archive-date=11 December 2013 |df=dmy }} after just one year she quit the Academy to enter the stage company "La compagnia dei giovani".{{cite news|title=Elena Cotta sfida Emma Dante al volante di un'automobile |url=http://www.larena.it/stories/Cultura_e_Spettacoli/552682_elena_cotta_sfida_emma_dante_al_volante_di_unautomobile/?refresh_ce&scroll=1558 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130908185750/http://www.larena.it/stories/Cultura_e_Spettacoli/552682_elena_cotta_sfida_emma_dante_al_volante_di_unautomobile/?refresh_ce&scroll=1558 |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 September 2013 |access-date=8 September 2013 |newspaper=L' Arena |date=23 August 2013 }} In 1975, she founded her own company together with her husband, Carlo Alighiero.

Cotta made her film debut in 1951, in Miracolo a Viggiù. In 2000, she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress at AFI award and FCCA Award for her performance in Kate Woods' Looking for Alibrandi. In 2013, at 82 years old, she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her performance in A Street in Palermo, in which she played an old and stubborn Albanian woman.

Partial filmography

References

External links

{{IMDb name|0182904}}

Category:1931 births

Category:Living people

Category:Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico alumni

Category:Actresses from Milan

Category:Italian film actresses

Category:Italian stage actresses

Category:Italian television actresses

Category:Volpi Cup for Best Actress winners