The beginnings
Eleonora Giorgi turns 70 on October 21st. But this year the actress from “My Wife is a Witch”, “Mani di fata” and “Compagni di scuola” – sex symbol of Italian cinema between the seventies and eighties – is also celebrating her fiftieth career anniversary. She started by posing for a few ads (“One was for a pair of tights and I don’t think you could even see her face. The other was for the plus-sized young Annabella: back then Twiggy was popular and my breasts were overflowing,” Giorgi told the courier). In 1973, after appearing in “Roma” by Federico Fellini, she made her debut as a leading actress alongside Catherine Spaak in “The Story of a Nun in the Convent” by Domenico Paolella.
Grief and addiction
At the beginning of the seventies, Eleonora Giorgi experienced deep sadness: her boyfriend at the time, the actor from “Malizia” and “Profumo di donna” Alessandro Momo, had an accident while overtaking a taxi on the Tiber Maresciallo Diaz on the motorcycle that the actress had lent him , near the Olympic Stadium. He dies seven days before his 18th birthday. From that moment on, Giorgi becomes addicted to heroin. What saved her was the meeting with Angelo Rizzoli (whom she married in Venice in 1979 in the crypt of the Basilica of San Marco): “The nicest person in the world.” I was sick and weighed just over 40 kilos, at the age of 34 he had that total weight of the group. My painful side meets his and we never leave each other again.
The Rizzoli Divorce
In 1980, Eleonora Giorgi and Angelo Rizzoli became Andrea’s parents. However, the union ended in 1984, even after the P2 lodge scandal broke in 1981. “I was at the peak of my career,” said the actress interviewed by Peter Gomez in “La Confessione” in 2018. “Suddenly I noticed that Everything around me was different, even on the set.” My husband made fun of this list and completely denied it: When I asked him what it was about, he replied: “What do I know, it will be a friends club, ask Imagine I’m wearing a compass and a hat on my head.” He told me: “I don’t accept criticism from anyone, especially not from you: if you like it, so be it, otherwise the door is there.” I felt betrayed in my trust. He had only told me lies. But I can’t even call him a liar: he lived in an invented reality, which he ultimately believed in, which was the most dangerous thing.
Nadia in “Borotalco”
In 1982, Eleonora Giorgi played Nadia in “Borotalco”, a cult film by Carlo Verdone. “This character was very similar to her,” the actress told Corriere in 2022, “because Carlo had allowed me to tailor the character together with the costume designer Luca Sabatelli.” I was at the height of success and someone said to me: “But why waste it “You have time with this little thing?” “It will be a light film and fragrant like talc,” Carlo told me after he had finally decided on the title. Thanks to this film, Giorgi won the David di Donatello and the Nastro d’Argento for best actress.
The move to the country
In Vittorio Cecchi Gori’s house, Eleonora Giorgi sees Massimo Ciavarro again, with whom she played the main role in “Sapore di mare 2 – A Year Later” in 1983: “He asked for my number, but didn’t call me for months: a Sunday on the homecoming of.” By the sea I find the thieves in the house and the phone rings. It was Massimo: “I’m sorry, I have to leave you, I have thieves.” An intense love story arises with the actor, and in order to maintain the relationship, the couple decides to move away from the spotlight. Giorgi and Ciavarro (who married in 1993) moved to the country and in 1991 their son Paolo was born. “We bought destroyed farmhouses to renovate them, we restored furniture and had Paolo, the most beautiful child in the world: But Massimo was always a little dissatisfied.” Unlike the people in the cinema, he never made any appearances: When I took him to the first time I saw him on set, he said to me, “I can’t guarantee you anything… all these lines I have to say.”
Because it ended with Massimo Ciavarro
Regarding the end of the relationship desired by Giorgi in 1996, Ciavarro, guest of the Venire da Me in 2018, said: “She also had her good reasons.” A man often ends up getting involved in stories, while a woman wants demonstrations and continuous gestures. Things I didn’t express with facts. I tried to do something but obviously didn’t manage to do enough. But anything that ultimately causes harm or suffering ultimately makes you grow.” Over time, the relationship between Massimo and Eleonora developed into a solid friendship: “Today we are brothers. It should always be like this – said the actor to Huffpost – “In a story that comes to an end, one of the two wants it to never end.” I admit it: I didn’t want it to end, also because it’s something It was very sudden and I lost not only Eleonora but also my relationship with my son Paolo. However, over the years this has helped me because today I have a much stronger relationship with him than if we had been a normal family. Paolo was not affected by this separation, he never heard us argue. If you have children, this should be normal.
Love with Andrea De Carlo
For Eleonora Giorgi, the bond with the writer Andrea De Carlo (which lasted until 2007) was a great love: “But I should have met him when I was 16.” He dedicated three books to me. He wanted to be the guest of honor in my life,” the actress, who has also had other, lesser-known flirtations, told Corriere. Like the one with Pino Daniele: “Minà sent me to interview him for Blitz. When I was with Angelo, I arrived with an escort: after the concert he said to me: “Leave her on the floor and let’s go to dinner and get on the bus.” At that moment I was breathing with the drums and The live songs gave me the freedom that I was missing. After the breakup we saw each other again. And with Massimo Troisi: “I had just filmed Borotalco with Carlo – Giorgi recalled to the weekly Visto in 2018 –. It was he who introduced him to me over dinner at his house. Massimo is shy but attractive, delicate but self-confident, full of grace, with a slight melancholy, but still smiling and sunny. Two years later we accidentally find ourselves as guests in a tourist village on the Ivory Coast. Massimo is cheerful and sociable, but he sits in the shade for hours and I keep him company; So, upon closer inspection, I notice the mechanical ticking of his heart, which becomes clearer in the silence: a sudden, brief and burning passion breaks out between us. Together we laugh and tell each other a thousand things, and when we come back we are still friends. Then he gets lost, I stay in the country while his career continues to be successful between Ettore Scolas and his films.
His directorial debut
In 2003, Eleonora Giorgi made her directorial debut with “Men & Women, Loves & Lies”, and in 2009 she directed her second film “The Last Summer”. In recent years, the actress has devoted more time to television: in 2018 she took part in “Dancing with the Stars” and “Big Brother VIP”. She is then a commentator on Live – Non è la D’Urso (2019-2021) and in 2022 we saw her as a competitor on Back to School on Italia 1, Affari Tui – Formato Famiglia and Il Singer Mascato on Rai 1 (below). the cat’s mask).