Elisa Kadigia Bove
Elisa Kadigia Bove | |
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Born | 1942 |
Occupation | actress |
Years active | 1960s–1980s |
Elisa Kadigia Bove is an Italian actress.
Personal life
Kadigia Bove is of Italian-Somali descent.[1]
Bove is the mother of two boys, Malcolm and Massimiliano, both of whom were born in Sicily.[2]
Career
Bove began her film career acting in commercials. She first gained renown during a television campaign for Atlantic, a popular 1970s TV-set brand. Daughter of an Italian soldier and a Somali woman. After attending the Piccolo Teatro directed by Strehler, she began a long career as an actress and vocalist, between theater, film and television. She interpreted many masterpieces by the Italian avant-garde composer Luigi Nono including A Floresta é Jovem e Cheja de Vida, Un volto del mare, Contrappunto dialettico alla mente, Y entonces Comprendió. She debuted as an actress in the first feature film directed by Valentino Orsini. She later starred in some B-Movies in the late Sixties and Eighties, while her last role was in a comedy directed by Cristina Comencini.
Bove later starred in a number of Italian feature films, particularly in the giallo horror genre. Of the latter, she appeared in the 1980 film Macabre by Lamberto Bava.[3]
Besides cinematic work, Bove is the president of the Associazione Donne Immigrate Africane (ADIA), a non-profit organization serving immigrant women in Italy.[4]
Filmography
- Macabre (1980)
- Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio (1983)
See also
- Jonis Bashir
- Italian Somalis
References
- Women in the Resistance in Italy and Algeria (in Italian)
- Biography|Achille Occhetto Archived 2014-08-12 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)
- "BAISER MACABRE" (PDF). Cine Horreur. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
- Immigration. Denying the role of women in culture. Interview with Kadgiga Bove and Pauline Aweto. (in Italian)