Biography

Sister of actress Carola Lotti.

Mariella Lotti was an Italian film actress. She made her film debut in 1939, and played leading ladies in a number of Fascist era and post-war films.

After the war (1946) she joined the Morelli-Stoppa-De Lullo Italian Prose Company and was directed by Luchino Visconti in Crime and Punishment. She then returned to cinema, making other films but without regaining her previous success and, after an unfortunate attempt as a producer ( Operazione Mitra, in 1951, which was released only four years later with a different title) at the beginning of the 1950s she retired from the big screen.

She was one of many actors employed on the anthology film The Ten Commandments, made following the overthrow of Benito Mussolini.

During the war she was involved in a passionate love story with King Michael of Romania.