Famous People with Name Eleonora

Eleonora Duse            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Eleonora Duse: was an Italian actress, often known simply as Duse.Eleonora Duse was born in Vigevano, Lombardy, and entered acting (her family's profession) as a child. Both her father and her grandfather were actors, and she joined the troupe at age four. Due to poverty, she initially worked continually, traveling from city to city with whichever troupe her family was currently engaged. She came to fame in Italian versions of rôles made famous by Sarah Bernhardt. She gained her first major success in Europe, then toured South America, Russia and the United States; beginning the tours as a virtual unknown but leaving in her wake a general recognition of her genius.

Eleonora Giorgi            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Eleonora Giorgi: an Italian actress, screenwriter and film director.She made her film debut in a minor role in Paolo Cavara's horror film Black Belly of the Tarantula (1970). Giorgi has appeared in nearly fifty films, including Pasquale Festa Campanile's Conviene far bene l'amore (U.S. title: Love and Energy) (1976), Franco Brusati's To Forget Venice (1979), Dario Argento's Inferno (1980), Nino Manfredi's Nudo di donna (1981), and Liliana Cavani's Beyond Obsession (1982). For her performance in Carlo Verdone's Borotalco (1982), she won the Nastro d'Argento award and David di Donatello award for Best Actress.

Eleonora Rossi Drago            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Eleonora Rossi Drago: was an Italian film actress. She was born in Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy. She had the leading role in Michelangelo Antonioni's Le amiche. She worked with Pietro Germi in Un maledetto imbroglio. In 1960, for her performance in Valerio Zurlini's Estate violenta she won the best actress prize of the Mar del Plata Film Festival and Silver Ribbon. In 1964, she appeared in an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, The Citadel. She died in Palermo, Italy.

Eleonora Cassano            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Eleonora Cassano: is an Argentine ballet dancer. She's known for being the dancing partner of Julio Bocca since 1989.Cassano studied in the Teatro Colón's Advanced Arts Institute and begins to work in the Teresa Carreño Foundation of Venezuela. In 1996, she started her career in the musical theatre with the plays La Cassano en el Maipo and Cassano dancing.

Eleonora Wexler            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Eleonora Wexler: an ACE Awarded Argentine actress, who started her career in Argentine version of the musical Annie, aged nine.

Ulrika Eleonora Of Denmark            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Ulrika Eleonora Of Denmark: was the Queen consort of Sweden as the spouse of King Charles XI of Sweden. Ulrika was the daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark and his wife Queen Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg. In 1675 she was bethrothed to King Charles XI of Sweden. During the Scanian War between Denmark and Sweden in 1675–1679 she was encouraged to break the engagement and was considered as a possible bride by the Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, but she refused to do so. She gained a reputation for loyalty to her future home country by exhibiting kindness to Swedish prisoners during the war of 1675–79: she pawned her jewelry, even her engagement ring, to care for the Swedish prisoners of war.