---
name: "Giselda Volodi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/giselda-volodi"
fi1m_id: "giselda-volodi"
imdb_id: "nm0901667"
tmdb_id: 76340
wikidata_id: "Q3769056"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "28 September 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T18:18:20.383766+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."
---

# Giselda Volodi

## Identity

Giselda Volodi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/giselda-volodi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** giselda-volodi
- **IMDb ID:** nm0901667
- **TMDB ID:** 76340
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3769056
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giselda_Volodi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3769056, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0901667/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/76340

Actor. Born 28 September 1959 in Tangiers, Morocco.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 28 September 1959, Tangiers, Morocco
- **Active:** 2004–2014
- **Also known as:** Giselda Mazzantini
- **Average Fi1m score:** 81, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 76 (1), 2010s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giselda_Volodi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3769056, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0901667/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/76340

## Biography

Giselda Volodi, also credited as Giselda Mazzantini, is an Italian actress, playwright and theatre director. She was born on 28 September 1959 in Tangier, Morocco, the daughter of writer Carlo Mazzantini and painter Anne Donnelly, and the sister of writer Margaret Mazzantini. She trained as an actor at the Studio Fersen – Scuola Internazionale dell'Attore in Rome and studied with international teachers including those from the GITIS in Moscow and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

Volodi made her film debut in *Hudson Hawk* (1991). Her screen credits include *Bread and Tulips* (2000), *Ocean's Twelve* (2004), *The Consequences of Love* (2004), *Agata and the Storm* (2004) – for which she received a David di Donatello nomination for Best Supporting Actress – *Miracle at St. Anna* (2008), *The Grand Budapest Hotel* (2014) and *Tale of Tales* (2015). On television she is known for playing Professor Boschi in the Rai series *L'allieva* (2016–2020).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Grand Budapest Hotel* (2014), Fi1m 86, as Serge's Sister — [page](https://film.one/film/the-grand-budapest-hotel.md)
- *The Consequences of Love* (2004), Fi1m 76, as Handmaid — [page](https://film.one/film/the-consequences-of-love.md)

## Complete filmography (44)

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

- *Agata Christian: Murder on the Snow* (2026), Actor
- *Tits don't cry* (2025), Actor
- *Diamonds* (2024), as Franca Zinzi
- *The Story* (2024), series, as Vilma
- *Catene* (2023), Actor
- *The Undecided Groom* (2023), as Rachele
- *The Book Of Vision* (2021), Actor
- *La notte è piccola per noi* (2019), Actor
- *Husband & Wife* (2017), as La psicologa
- *Rocco Schiavone* (2016), series, as Adalgisa
- *L'allieva* (2016), series, as Valeria Boschi (Wallie)
- *Dead Uncle* (2016), as Zia Filomena
- *L'età d'oro* (2016), as Rosaria
- *The Young Messiah* (2016), as Female Soothsayer
- *Tale of Tales* (2015), as Lady-in-Waiting
- *Banana* (2015), as Madre di Banana
- *Francesco* (2014), as Madre di Francesco
- *Francesco* (2014), series, as Madre di Francesco
- *The Grand Budapest Hotel* (2014), as Serge's Sister — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-grand-budapest-hotel.md)
- *Other Times* (2013), series, as Madame Ada
- *Garibaldi's Lovers* (2012), as Art dealer
- *It Was the Son* (2012), as Loredana Ciraulo
- *The Last Fashion Show* (2011), as Daria Marinoni
- *L'imbroglio nel lenzuolo* (2010), as Elena
- *Ce n'è per tutti* (2009), as Mother
- *The Purple Sea* (2009), as Lucia
- *Miracle at St. Anna* (2008), as Iole
- *Sonetàula* (2008), as Rosa Tanchis
- *I Vicerè* (2007), as Lucrezia
- *Secret Journey* (2006), as Paziente
- *De Gasperi: The Man of Hope* (2005), series, as Marcella
- *Never Again as Before* (2005), as Professoressa
- *Ocean's Twelve* (2004), as Toulour's Butler — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/oceans-twelve.md)
- *The Consequences of Love* (2004), as Handmaid — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/the-consequences-of-love.md)
- *Lives of the Saints* (2004), series, as Maria
- *Agatha and the Storm* (2004), as Maria Libera
- *I Dreamed of Africa* (2000), as Rachel
- *Bread and Tulips* (2000), as Hotel housekeeper
- *I fobici* (1999), as Carlo's neighbor (segment "Ho chiuso il gas?")
- *Viol@* (1998), as Interviewee
- *Something to Believe In* (1998), as Mona Lisa
- *Mario and the Magician* (1994), as Fishmonger
- *Verso sud* (1992), as Marisa
- *Hudson Hawk* (1991), as Mona Lisa

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