R.I.P. Nicoletta Machiavelli

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Nicoletta Machiavelli (1 August 1944 – 15 November 2015), also known as Nicoletta Rangoni Machiavelli and Nicoletta Macchiavelli, is an Italian film actress.

The daughter of a Florentine father and of an American mother, she is a descendant of the philosopher and author Niccolò Machiavelli. She starred in about 40 movies between 1965 and 1983. Her first big role is Ugo Tognazzi's wife in A Question of Honour, who is killed to restore her husband's reputation. She plays in some Spaghetti Western like Navajo Joe and The Hills Run Red. In France she is Alain Delon's killed wife in Tony Arzenta and plays in 1975 together with the French leading stars Claude Jade and Anny Duperey a woman under suspect to murdered their common lover in Malicious Pleasure. After some other french films she plays her last role in 1983 in La fuite en avant. In 1984, she became a disciple of Osho and retired from show business.

Selected filmography

Thrilling (1965)
A Question of Honour (1965)
I nostri mariti (1966)
Navajo Joe (1966)
The Hills Run Red (1966)
If All the Women in the World (1966)
Matchless (1967)
Candy (1968)
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die (1968)
Garter Colt (1968)
Hate Thy Neighbor (1968)
It Takes a Thief ep. " Who'll Bid Two Million Dollars?" (1969)
A Noose for Django (1969)
Scarabea: How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1969)
Carnal Circuit (1969)
Necropolis (1970)
A Pocketful of Chestnuts (1970)
L'amante dell'Orsa Maggiore (1971)
Dirty Weekend (1973)
Tony Arzenta (1973)
Bawdy Tales (1973)
Someone Is Bleeding (1974)
That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)
Malicious Pleasure (1975)
Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976)
Beyond Good and Evil (1976)