Career
Born Lidia Alfonsi in Parma into a wealthy middle-class family, at young age Alfonsi interrupted her accounting studies to pursue a career in theater. Quite soon she was cast in leading roles in dramas and often in classic works, including many Greek tragedies. In 1957 she made her film debut, then in 1960 she started a professional and sentimental relationship (lasted until his death in a car accident in 1963) with television director Giacomo Vaccari, starring in several successful Radiotelevisione Italiana television-dramas directed by him.
Since mid-1970s Alfonsi semi-retired, making sporadic appearances only in 1988 (with the television movie Una lepre con la faccia da bambina), in 1990 (in Gianni Amelio"s Open Doors) and in 1997 (in Roberto Benigni"s Life Is Beautiful).
Alfonsi was appointed Grand Officer of the Italian Republic.