Worked as an assistant to art director Piero Gherardi before being spotted by director Mario Monicelli and cast in his "Proibito" (1954). Best known for her roles as Anna, the woman who vanishes in Antonioni's "L'Avventura" (1960), and as the incestuous mother in Louis Malle's "Murmur of the Heart" (1971).
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