Biography

Before 1945 her first name was written "Dori" because using names or words that could seem foreign was forbidden by law.

After the Second World War, Doris Duranti fled to South America. She had been involved with Alessandro Pavolini, a Minister in the fascist government of the Italian Social Republic, who was executed by the partisans in 1945.

In 1987, Duranti published a memoir, "Il romanzo della mia vita". This autobiography was later turned into a television drama, broadcast by Rai 1 in 1991 under the title "Doris una diva del regime", directed by Alfredo Giannetti and starring Elide Melli .

Duranti achieved her first great success as a protagonist, playing a black woman; from that moment she became a movie star and was noticed, among other things, for the elegance with which she moved on stage and for her aggressive features.

The actress died in 1995, at the age of 78, in Santo Domingo. She was buried in the cemetery of the Dominican Republic.