Alda Grimaldi
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Alda Grimaldi | |
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 Grimaldi in 1969 | |
| Born | 6 October 1919 Sampierdarena, Italy |
| Died | 28 December 2023 (aged 104) |
| Occupation(s) | Director and actress |
Alda Grimaldi (6 October 1919 – 28 December 2023), known as Dada, was an Italian director and actress who was active from the 1940s to the 1960s.[1]
Grimaldi was born in Sampierdarena in 1919. She began her acting career in Turin at the Fert Studio in the 1940s.[2]
In 1955, Grimaldi sterted working at RAI. The same year, she won a scholarship to attend a directing course at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.[3]
Grimaldi was among the first women to work as a television director in the state television corporation in the early days of regular broadcasting. She directed, among other things, an episode of the 1958 didactic-theatrical program Il teatro dei ragazzi.[4]
In 1957, she was awarded the Saint-Vincent Prize for Journalism.[5]
She died on 28 December 2023, at the age of 104.[5]
