---
name: "Esther Minciotti"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/esther-minciotti"
fi1m_id: "esther-minciotti"
imdb_id: "nm0591034"
tmdb_id: 78935
wikidata_id: "Q3058981"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "18 March 1888"
died: "15 April 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T07:51:39.740046+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Esther Minciotti

## Identity

Esther Minciotti

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/esther-minciotti
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** esther-minciotti
- **IMDb ID:** nm0591034
- **TMDB ID:** 78935
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3058981
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Minciotti, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3058981, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0591034/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/78935

Actor. Born 18 March 1888 in Italy. Died 15 April 1962.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 18 March 1888, Italy
- **Died:** 15 April 1962
- **Active:** 1955–1956
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Minciotti, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3058981, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0591034/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/78935

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Wrong Man*](https://film.one/film/the-wrong-man.md) (83)

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## Biography

Esther Minciotti was an Italian-born actress who worked in American films and on stage from 1949 to 1958.

She appeared in eight films, including *House of Strangers* (1949), *Shockproof* (1949), *The Undercover Man* (1949), *Marty* (1955) as Mrs Piletti, and *The Wrong Man* (1956) as Mama Balestrero. She also had television roles and performed on Broadway in *That Lady* (1949–1950) and *The Best House in Naples* (1956).

Minciotti emigrated to the United States with her husband, the actor Silvio Minciotti, and settled in New York. She died in New York City in 1962.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Wrong Man* (1956), Fi1m 83, as Mama Balestrero — [page](https://film.one/film/the-wrong-man.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Death of Manolete* (1957), as Augustias
- *Full of Life* (1956), as Mama Pauletta Rocco
- *The Wrong Man* (1956), as Mama Balestrero — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-wrong-man.md)
- *Code of the Underword* (1955), as Mama Flumeri
- *Marty* (1955), as Mrs. Piletti
- *Marty* (1953), as Mrs. Pilletti
- *Strictly Dishonorable* (1951), as Maria Caraffa
- *The Man Who Had Influence* (1950), as Mrs. Cassini
- *House of Strangers* (1949), as Theresa Monetti
- *The Undercover Man* (1949), as Maria Rocco
- *Shockproof* (1949), as Mrs. Marat
- *Studio One* (1948), series, as Mrs. Cassini

## Gallery

- ![Esther Minciotti](https://film.one/media/person/1238285/gallery-c73c1ae0ccaf.jpg) Esther Minciotti — trailer screenshot (United Artists), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Esther_Minciotti_in_Marty_trailer.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Esther Minciotti](https://film.one/media/person/1238285/gallery-b6a1c663e1dc.jpg) Esther Minciotti — Image via TMDB

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