---
name: "Lilla Brignone"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lilla-brignone"
fi1m_id: "lilla-brignone"
imdb_id: "nm0109265"
tmdb_id: 131329
wikidata_id: "Q1038443"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "23 August 1913"
died: "24 March 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T14:34:16.542756+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."
---

# Lilla Brignone

## Identity

Lilla Brignone

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lilla-brignone
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lilla-brignone
- **IMDb ID:** nm0109265
- **TMDB ID:** 131329
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1038443
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilla_Brignone, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1038443, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0109265/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/131329

Actor. Born 23 August 1913 in Roma, Italy. Died 24 March 1984.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 23 August 1913, Roma, Italy
- **Died:** 24 March 1984
- **Also known as:** Лилла Бриньоне
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilla_Brignone, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1038443, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0109265/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/131329

## Biography

Lilla Brignone (born Adelaide Brignone) was an Italian actress who appeared in around forty films between 1930 and 1982, as well as in theatre. She was the daughter of film director Guido Brignone and actress Lola Visconti, and the niece of actress Mercedes Brignone. She made her stage debut at fifteen and became a leading figure in Italian theatre, working with directors including Giorgio Strehler, Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica.

Her film roles include Vittoria's mother in Michelangelo Antonioni's *L'Eclisse* (1962), La madre di Roberta in *Violent Summer* (1959), Regina in *Ghosts of Rome* (1961), Granma in *Malicious* (1973) and the mother of Drogo in *The Desert of the Tartars* (1976). She also appeared in *Paranoia* (1969) as Teresa. Brignone received the San Genesio Prize in 1955 and an Oscar Capitolino in 1972. She was the long-term partner of actor Gianni Santuccio.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *L'Eclisse* (1962), Fi1m 88, as Vittoria's Mother — [page](https://film.one/film/leclisse.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

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

- *Delitti, amore e gelosia* (1982), Actor
- *The Desert of the Tartars* (1976), as madre di Drogo
- *Oh, Serafina!* (1976), as segretaria della ditta Valle
- *For Love* (1976), as Ines
- *Lovers and Other Relatives* (1974), as Lilla Bellotto
- *Malicious* (1973), as Granma
- *Camorra* (1972), as madre di Tonino
- *Planet Venus* (1972), as Amelia's mother
- *Paranoia* (1969), as Teresa
- *Baby Doll* (1968), as Adelina, madre di Ivana
- *Caio Gracco* (1968), as Cornelia
- *I promessi sposi* (1967), series, as Agnese
- *Thunder of Battle* (1964), as Volumnia
- *The Betrothed* (1964), as Perpetua
- *Rocambole* (1963), Actor
- *The Attic* (1963), as "Baronessa"
- *The Shortest Day* (1963), as Capocrocerossina (uncredited)
- *Un marito in condominio* (1963), as Esperia
- *Sex Can Be Difficult* (1962), as Anna (segment "L'avaro")
- *The Nun of Monza* (1962), as Donna Marianna
- *L'Eclisse* (1962), as Vittoria's Mother — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/leclisse.md)
- *Ghosts of Rome* (1961), as Regina
- *Letters of a Novice* (1960), as Sister Giulietta
- *Stendali (Still They Toll)* (1960), as Narrator (voice)
- *Violent Summer* (1959), as La madre di Roberta
- *Il borghese gentiluomo* (1959), as Signora Jourdain
- *Cannon Serenade* (1958), as Suor Teresa
- *I sogni nel cassetto* (1957), as Antonietta, Lucia's mother
- *La frattura* (1956), as Elena
- *Rice Girl* (1956), as Moglie di Pietro
- *Angels of Darkness* (1954), as Tamara
- *Abbiamo vinto!* (1951), as Giulia Casadei
- *Scadenza trenta giorni* (1945), Actor
- *Il processo delle zitelle* (1945), as Franca
- *Porte chiuse* (1945), Actor
- *30 Seconds of Love* (1936), as Annetta
- *Think It Over Jack* (1936), as Filomena
- *Destiny Unknown* (1935), as Carmela, la seconda attrice del "Café de Paris"
- *The Serpent's Fang* (1935), as Maddy

## Gallery

- ![Italian actress Lilla Brignone (1973)](https://film.one/media/person/3908465/gallery-783af93278dd.jpg) Italian actress Lilla Brignone (1973) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Lilla_Brignone.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Lilla Brignone in una scena del film La monaca di Monza (1962), girato nel Lazio](https://film.one/media/person/3908465/gallery-5ecac232f812.jpg) Lilla Brignone in una scena del film La monaca di Monza (1962), girato nel Lazio — Carmine Gallone (director), Tonino Delli Colli (cinematographer), Globe Films International, Produzione Gallone, Paris-Elysée Films (production), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/La_monaca_di_Monza_%281962%29_Lilla_Brignone.jpg/1280px-La_monaca_di_Monza_%281962%29_Lilla_Brignone.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![scena dal film Malizia (1973)](https://film.one/media/person/3908465/gallery-7a68f697ac5c.png) scena dal film Malizia (1973) — Salvatore Samperi (director) / Vittorio Storaro (cinematographer), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Malizia_20.png/1280px-Malizia_20.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Portrait of Lilla Brignone in a scene from a theatrical comedy. (1959)](https://film.one/media/person/3908465/gallery-0cd72d8d102e.jpg) Portrait of Lilla Brignone in a scene from a theatrical comedy. (1959) — Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Photo_Portrait_of_Lilla_Brignone_in_a_scene_from_a_theatrical_comedy_1959_-_Touring_Club_Italiano_04_2225.jpg/1280px-Photo_Portrait_of_Lilla_Brignone_in_a_scene_from_a_theatrical_comedy_1959_-_Touring_Club_Italiano_04_2225.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lilla Brignone](https://film.one/media/person/3908465/gallery-a4953986b54f.jpg) Lilla Brignone — Image via TMDB
- ![Warner Bentivegna e Lilla Brignone (1962)](https://film.one/media/person/3908465/gallery-579dd64661e7.jpg) Warner Bentivegna e Lilla Brignone (1962) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Bentivegna_Brignone.jpg/1280px-Bentivegna_Brignone.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![photo from the Italian magazine Radiocorriere (1960)](https://film.one/media/person/3908465/gallery-729e40863d36.jpg) photo from the Italian magazine Radiocorriere (1960) — Indeciso42 at the Italian Wikipedia project., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Lilla_Brignone_%26_Gianni_Santuccio.jpg/1280px-Lilla_Brignone_%26_Gianni_Santuccio.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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