Lelia Goldoni

Biography

Lelia Goldoni was an American actress who appeared in a number of motion pictures and television shows starting in the late-1940s, beginning with uncredited cameo roles in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's House of Strangers (1949) and John Huston's We Were Strangers (1949). She costarred on an episode of the British television series Danger Man "Fair Exchange" (1964) with Patrick MacGoohan. She is best known for co-starring in John Cassavetes's groundbreaking film Shadows (1959) and playing the best friend of Ellen Burstyn's character in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lelia Goldoni, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Known For

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

as Katherine Hendley

The Italian Job

as Mrs. Beckerman (uncredited)

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

as Bea

Cold Case

as Nurse Polly Leonard (2007)

Shadows

as Lelia

The Day of the Locust

as Mary Dove

House of Strangers

as Italian Girl (uncredited)

L.A. Law

as Judge Danielle Peterson

Cagney & Lacey

The Unseen

as Virginia Keller