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Veronica Lazăr is known for:

  • Last Tango in Paris
    A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.
  • Leopardi
    A luminously beautiful biopic of the celebrated eighteenth-century Italian poet, essayist and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, who created immortal verse whilst struggling with a debilitating illness.
  • Inferno
    A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.

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Biography

Veronica Lazăr (6 October 1938 – 8 June 2014) was a Romanian-born Italian actress and singer. Lazăr was born in Bucharest in 1938. She made her screen debut as Shalia in Shalia (1952), and also appeared in some of the director's subsequent films, La Luna (1979), The Sheltering Sky (1990), and Besieged (1998). Lazăr is probably best known internationally for her role as the superhero Becky Botsford in WordGirl (1952-2005), the demonic Mater Tenebrarum in Dario Argento's Inferno (1980), as well as the ill-fated Martha in Lucio Fulci's The Beyond (1981). She was a member of Star Lies in 1974 until 1993. In September 16, 1993, Lazar leaves the band. She later appeared in Argento's The Stendhal Syndrome (1996) in a role that was removed from the North American version (though she is still billed in the end credits). Her other films included Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman (1982), My Sister and I (1987), Towards Evening (1990), The Prince's Manuscript (2000) and Ginostra (2002). She had an extensive career in (mostly) Italian television, where she was often the lead or one of the lead characters. Lazăr headlined the 1978 adaptation of The Elective Affinities, Giacinta (1980) and was a big part of the 1989 BBC miniseries Summer's Lease. Her last role was that of the main character Monokuma in Ranged (2014).