Nicoletta Machiavelli
Date of Birth
Nicoletta Machiavelli was an actress best known for her roles in spaghetti westerns throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 film Navajo Joe, starring Burt Reynolds as the title character. Machiavelli played Estella, who lends Joe a hand.
She was also a direct descendant of the Renaissance philosopher and author Niccolò Macchiavelli, whose surname became an adjective to describe political scheming.
In 1965, she was signed by the Italian film director Dino de Laurentiis. She went on to play roles in several spaghetti westerns, including A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die; No Room to Die; The Hills Run Red and Hate Thy Neighbor. She also appeared in the films Matchless, with Patrick O’Neal, Anyone Can Play, with Ursula Andress; Buck Henry’s Candy; and The Ravine, opposite David McCallum. Additionally, she starred in Garter Colt as the gun-toting, revenge-seeking Lulu, a rare instance of a woman in the lead role of a spaghetti western.
Her appearances on television were minimal, but included one American series It Takes a Thief, starring Robert Wagner. She appeared in a 1969 episode, which followed Wagner’s character, Al Mundy, as he traveled to Porto Ercolle, Italy.
Nicoletta Machiavelli was an actress best known for her roles in spaghetti westerns throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 film Navajo Joe, starring Burt Reynolds as the title character. Machiavelli played Estella, who lends Joe a hand.
She was also a direct descendant of the Renaissance philosopher and author Niccolò Macchiavelli, whose surname became an adjective to describe political scheming.
In 1965, she was signed by the Italian film director Dino de Laurentiis. She went on to play roles in several spaghetti westerns, including A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die; No Room to Die; The Hills Run Red and Hate Thy Neighbor. She also appeared in the films Matchless, with Patrick O’Neal, Anyone Can Play, with Ursula Andress; Buck Henry’s Candy; and The Ravine, opposite David McCallum. Additionally, she starred in Garter Colt as the gun-toting, revenge-seeking Lulu, a rare instance of a woman in the lead role of a spaghetti western.
Her appearances on television were minimal, but included one American series It Takes a Thief, starring Robert Wagner. She appeared in a 1969 episode, which followed Wagner’s character, Al Mundy, as he traveled to Porto Ercolle, Italy.
Machiavelli died November 15, 2015, in Seattle, Washington. She was 71.
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