Nicoletta Machiavelli
Actor
Biography
Nicoletta Machiavelli (1 August 1944 – 15 November 2015), also known as Nicoletta Rangoni Machiavelli and Nicoletta Macchiavelli, was an Italian film actress.
The daughter of a Florentine father and of an American mother, Machiavelli was a descendant of the philosopher and author Niccolò Machiavelli.
Following an audition for the role of Eva in John Huston's The Bible: In the Beginning..., she was noted by the producer Dino De Laurentiis who put her under contract for seven years, a contract she eventually broke after three years.
Her first role was Ugo Tognazzi's wife in A Question of Honour, and following a few comedies, her early career was characterized by genre films, mainly Spaghetti Western, notably Sergio Corbucci's Navajo Joe.
Starting from the late 1960s Machiavelli started appearing in more ambitious art films, working with Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Pietro Germi, Dino Risi, Sergio Citti, Andrzej Żuławski, and Liliana Cavani, among others.
In 1984, she became a disciple of Osho and retired from show business. She eventually moved to Seattle, Washington in the Pacific Rim, where she died of an undisclosed illness on 15 November 2015, aged 71.
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Filmography
Navajo Joe
as Estella 1966
Candy
as Marquita 1968
Icy Breasts
as Jacqueline Rilson 1974
Tony Arzenta
as Anna 1973
Monte Carlo or Bust!
as Dominique 1969
Free Hand for a Tough Cop
as Mara 1976
Beyond Good and Evil
as Amanda 1977
The Hills Run Red
as Mary Ann 1966
No Room to Die
as Maya/Maja 1969
Our Husbands
as Roberta 1966
Holy Year
as Carla, terrorist 1976
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
as Laurinda 1968
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
as Self 2012
Hate Thy Neighbor
as Peggy Savalas 1968
Necropolis
1970
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
as Sylvia 1966