--- name: "Sandra Milo" canonical: "https://film.one/person/sandra-milo" fi1m_id: "sandra-milo" imdb_id: "nm0590452" tmdb_id: 5683 wikidata_id: "Q291915" roles: ["Actor"] born: "11 March 1933" died: "29 January 2024" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 80 average_as: "actor" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-26T15:43:10.035167+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." --- # Sandra Milo ## Identity Sandra Milo - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sandra-milo - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** sandra-milo - **IMDb ID:** nm0590452 - **TMDB ID:** 5683 - **Wikidata ID:** Q291915 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Milo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q291915, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590452/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5683 Actor. Born 11 March 1933 in Tunis, French Protectorate Tunisia [now Tunisia]. Died 29 January 2024. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 11 March 1933, Tunis, French Protectorate Tunisia [now Tunisia] - **Died:** 29 January 2024 - **Active:** 1963–1965 - **Also known as:** Salvatrice Elena Greco - **Frequently works with:** [Angelo Rizzoli](https://film.one/person/angelo-rizzoli.md), [Brunello Rondi](https://film.one/person/brunello-rondi.md), [Ennio Flaiano](https://film.one/person/ennio-flaiano.md), [Federico Fellini](https://film.one/person/federico-fellini.md), [Tullio Pinelli](https://film.one/person/tullio-pinelli.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as actor, over 2 titles - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Milo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q291915, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590452/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5683 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*8½*](https://film.one/film/812.md) (91), [*Juliet of the Spirits*](https://film.one/film/juliet-of-the-spirits.md) (68) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Sandra Milo > Sandra Milo was the mistress, the neighbour, the woman built for pleasure, and she played her without malice or apology. Fellini gave her the two parts that made the reputation; almost nothing else she was offered came close. She arrives at a railway station in furs and asks to be hidden in a second hotel. That is Carla in *8½* (1963), the mistress Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) has summoned to the spa and would rather nobody saw, and it is the part Sandra Milo will be remembered for. She plays Carla as a woman who reads comics, adores him and is never taken seriously by him or by the film. Milo does not argue with that. She lets Carla be exactly as small as Guido thinks she is, and on our last viewing we found her sadder than we remembered, because nothing she does asks for pity and none of it is noticed by the man it is for. She had been working for eight years by then. Her debut was in Antonio Pietrangeli's *The Bachelor* (1955), opposite Alberto Sordi. Roberto Rossellini gave her a first sizeable part in *General della Rovere* (1959) and then a lead in *Vanina Vanini* (1961), which was badly received, partly on account of a high, childlike voice that critics kept noticing and that was sometimes dubbed over. She left the business. Fellini persuaded her back, and the two films they made together are the reason there is a page to write. *Juliet of the Spirits* (1965) gives her three roles, and the one that counts is Suzy, the woman in the red villa next door to Giulietta Masina, who keeps a house built for pleasure and offers her neighbour a freedom that comes down to better underwear and more visitors. Milo plays her without a trace of malice, which is right: Suzy is not the villain, she is the brochure. It is the same instrument as Carla, the body that makes the woman beside it look more buttoned-up, put to a different use. The film runs 148 minutes, and a good forty of them are Fellini admiring his own party. Milo is one of the guests who earns her place. That instrument was also the limit. Italian and French films of the period cast her for her figure and her lack of inhibition, and after 1965 the parts were mostly second-rate. She retired again at the end of the 1960s, came back from 1979 as older women, severe or maternal where she had once been anything but, and from the 1980s was better known as a television host. There were late returns to cinema for Pupi Avati in *Il cuore altrove* (2003) and Gabriele Salvatores in *Happy Family* (2010), and a final part in *The Best Century of My Life* (2023). Of Fellini's direction she said, "Da quel giorno, come attrice, non ho mai provato più pudore": from that day, as an actress, she never felt shame again. Two good films with one director is a thin career by most measures. It is also two more than most actors get, and the first of them we would send a stranger to. ## Biography Sandra Milo (born Salvatrice Elena Greco) was an Italian actress. Born on 11 March 1933 in Tunis, she died on 29 January 2024 in Rome. She is best known for her roles as Carla in Federico Fellini’s *8½* (1963) and as Suzy/Iris/Fanny in *Juliet of the Spirits* (1965), winning a Nastro d’Argento for best supporting actress for each performance. Milo made her film debut in 1955 in *The Bachelor* alongside Alberto Sordi. Her first major role came in Roberto Rossellini’s *General della Rovere* (1959). She appeared in several comedies and melodramas before retiring after marriage. Fellini persuaded her to return for *8½*. She retired again in 1968 and made a second comeback in 1979, later taking on roles as middle-aged women. She also worked in television and wrote books. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, washingtonpost.com, theguardian.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *Juliet of the Spirits* (1965), Fi1m 68, as Suzy / Iris / Fanny — [page](https://film.one/film/juliet-of-the-spirits.md) - *8½* (1963), Fi1m 91, as Carla — [page](https://film.one/film/812.md) ## Complete filmography (81) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Fading Gigolo* (2023), series, as Marisa - *Betrayed Adolescence* (2023), as Nonna Laura - *Roma, santa e dannata* (2023), as Sé stessa - *The Best Century of My Life* (2023), as Signora J.O. - *Che bella storia la vita* (2023), as Sandra - *Feliz Navidad* (2022), Actor - *Quelle brave ragazze* (2022), series, Actor - *Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta* (2021), Actor - *A Bookshop in Paris* (2021), as Madame Milo - *Free - Liberi* (2021), as Mirna - *The Truth About La Dolce Vita* (2020), Actor - *Nemici* (2020), Actor - *My Beloved Enemy* (2018), as Antonietta Stefanelli - *There's No Place Like Home* (2018), as Maria - *Salvatrice - Sandra Milo si racconta* (2017), Actor - *Felicissime condoglianze* (2017), as Zia - *Il velo di Maya* (2017), as Nonna Marta - *Before Monday* (2016), as Chanel - *Camminando nel cielo* (2015), Actor - *Una notte agli studios* (2013), as Venditrice - *W Zappatore* (2013), as Nonna Zappatore - *L'arte del fai da te* (2013), Actor - *Impepata di nozze* (2012), as Madre di Michele - *Baci salati* (2012), as Contessa Motta - *Flaiano: il meglio è passato* (2010), Actor - *Happy Family* (2010), as Ezio's Mother - *Alta Infedeltà* (2010), as una cliente - *Hollywood sul Tevere* (2009), Actor - *Sleepless - Senza sonno* (2009), as Mamma di Olga - *Impotenti esistenziali* (2009), as Aunt Elisabetta - *La perfezionista* (2008), Actor - *Chi nasce tondo...* (2008), as Anna Tre Culi - *Un volto tra la folla* (2008), Actor - *Incantato* (2003), as Arabella - *Camerieri* (1995), as Salvatore Azzaro's Mistress (uncredited) - *In morte di Federico Fellini* (1994), Actor - *Cinderella '87* (1987), series, as Marianne - *Cinderella '80* (1984), as Marianne - *Grog* (1982), as Vittoria - *La dolce vita 20 anni dopo* (1980), Actor - *Tesoromio* (1979), as Solange - *Riavanti… Marsch!* (1979), as Zaira Bergamelli - *Fellini: The Director as Creator* (1970), Actor - *Dead for a Dollar* (1968), as Liz - *Bang Bang Kid* (1967), as Gwenda Skaggel - *The Strange Night* (1967), as Debora - *Per amore... per magia...* (1967), as Algisa - *Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel* (1967), as Baronessa Simonetta Bagneroli della Stufa - *How I Learned to Love Women* (1966), as Ilde - *Weekend, Italian Style* (1965), as Giuliana Marletti - *Juliet of the Spirits* (1965), as Suzy / Iris / Fanny — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/juliet-of-the-spirits.md) - *Woman Is a Wonderful Thing* (1964), as Rossella (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce") - *Beautiful Families* (1964), as Esmeralda - *Ça ira - Il fiume della rivolta* (1964), Actor - *Male Companion* (1964), as Maria - *Relax Yourself Darling* (1964), as Helene Faustin - *Amori pericolosi* (1964), as The General's lover (segment "Il generale") - *White Voices* (1964), as Carolina - *Summer Frenzy* (1964), as Yvonne - *The Visitor* (1963), as Pina - *Be Careful Ladies* (1963), as Henriette - *8½* (1963), as Carla — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/812.md) - *The Shortest Day* (1963), as Erede siciliana (uncredited) - *Vanina Vanini* (1961), as Vanina Vanini - *Ghosts of Rome* (1961), as Flora di Roviano - *Gli scontenti* (1961), Actor - *Adua and Her Friends* (1960), as Lolita - *The Big Risk* (1960), as Liliane - *The Green Mare* (1959), as Margerite Maloret - *General Della Rovere* (1959), as Olga - *Way of Youth* (1959), as Olga, prostituée - *Witness in the City* (1959), as Liliane - *Lost Souls* (1959), as Giulia - *Herod the Great* (1959), as Sara - *Totò in the Moon* (1958), as Tatiana - *The Mirror Has Two Faces* (1958), as Ariane - *The Woman Who Came from the Sea* (1957), as Danae Niebel - *The Adventures of Arsène Lupin* (1957), as Mathilde Duchamp - *Moglie e buoi...* (1956), as Silvana - *Nero's Mistress* (1956), Actor - *The Bachelor* (1955), as Gabriella ## Gallery - ![film frame from the Italian movie Adua e le compagne (1960)](https://film.one/media/person/59976/gallery-6241c3fc1a30.png) film frame from the Italian movie Adua e le compagne (1960) — Antonio Pietrangeli (director) / Armando Nannuzzi (cinematographer), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Adua_e_le_compagne_04.png/1280px-Adua_e_le_compagne_04.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - 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