Career
Originally an opera singer, she was discovered by film director Federico Fellini who spotted her in Milan and cast her for the role of Saraghina, the "devil woman" in Fellini"s 8½ (1963). She also appeared in the role of Peter Sellers" wife, Anna Fassbender, in What"s New Pussycat? (1965), as a guest in Hotel Paradiso (1966), and in small roles in films such as Three Bites of the Apple (1967), The Graduate (1967), A Manitoba Called Gannon (1968), I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968), The Maltese Bippy (1969) and Alex & the Gypsy (1976). Her last film appearance was as the flamboyant French actress Genevieve in Somewhere in Time (1980).