Life and career

Lualdi was born Antonietta de Pascale in Beirut, Lebanon to an Italian father and a Greek mother, and grew up fluent in Arabic, French and Italian. She began her career in 1949, after having won a contest for new talents of the cinema magazine Hollywood, in which she was presented as "Signorina X" ("Madam X"), inviting the readers to choose her stage name.

After having starred with him in several films, she married Italian actor Franco Interlenghi in 1955; the couple had two daughters, Stella and Antonellina, an actress in her own right.

In 1974 she debuted in France as a singer with some success and critical appreciation, then she also debuted on stage with the comedy Le Moulin de la Gallette, with which she toured across several European countries.

Selected filmography

• Signorinella (1949)
• Canzoni per le strade (1950)
• Abbiamo vinto! (1951)
• The Two Sergeants (1951)
• His Last Twelve Hours (1951)
• Cani e gatti (1952)
• Solo per te Lucia (1952)
• Three Forbidden Stories (1952)
• È arrivato l'accordatore (1952)
• Adorable Creatures (1952)
• Il romanzo della mia vita (1952)
• The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1952)
• The Overcoat (1952)
• Perdonami! (1953)
• Papà Pacifico (1954)
• Casta Diva (1954)
• Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954)
• Pietà per chi cade (1954)
• Mid-Century Loves (1954)
• Wild Love (1955)
• Le signorine dello 04 (1955)
• Andrea Chénier (1955)
• Altair (1956)
• Fathers and Sons (1957)
• One Life (1958)
• The Sky Burns (1958)
• Young Husbands (1958)
• Web of Passion (1959)
• Bad Girls Don't Cry (1959)
• Silver Spoon Set (1960)
• Appuntamento a Ischia (1960)
• Run with the Devil (1960)
• The Mongols (1961)
• The Shortest Day (1962)
• My Son, the Hero (1962)
• Disorder (1962)
• The Swindlers (1963)
• 100 Horsemen (1964)
• Let's Talk About Women (1964)
• Su e giù (1965)
• The Sea Pirate (1966)
• Massacre in the Black Forest (1967)
• The Column (1968)
• Ragan (1968)
• Un caso di coscienza (1970)
• Vincent, François, Paul and the Others (1974)
• Cross Shot (1976)
• A Thorn in the Heart (1986)
• Who Wants to Kill Sara? (1992)
• Nefertiti (1994)

[ Source: Wikipedia ]