Overview
Paola di Gerfalco, Contessa di Gerfalco (18 September 1928 – 12 August 1986), better known by her professional name Paola Mori, was an Italian actress and aristocrat, and the third and last wife of Orson Welles.
Biography
Paola Mori was born in 1928 to an Italian aristocratic family. During World War II, she spent eights months in a concentration camp. Her father, a colonel in the Italian army under King Victor Emmanuel III, was a member of the anti-Mussolini resistance.
By 1953, she had begun carving out a career for herself as a film actress, playing supporting roles in several Italian films.
In 1953, Mori met Orson Welles, and he cast her as the female lead of his film Mr. Arkadin (1955). Mori's voice was dubbed by Billie Whitelaw to conceal her Italian accent.
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