Biography

Full name - Nicholetta Rangoni Machiavelli. The first role in a long movie was in Luigi Zampa's Una questione d'onore (1966), produced in 1965. In 1969, was nominated as best actress for the German Academy Award for her role of Scarabea in the film Scarabea - wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch? (1969).

Machiavelli played in film sketches and movies with many of the good Italian and French directors of her time: Alberto Lattuada, Liliana Cavani, Carlo Lizzani, Dino Risi, Andrzej Zoulawski, Georges Lautner.

In 1978 she became a Rajneeshee, a follower of the spiritual teacher Rajneesh, later known as Osho, and after two more films, she stopped her career and moved to Rajnespuram (Wasco County, Oregon, USA).

In 1985 she settled in Seattle (USA), where she was an interpreter and Italian language teacher at the University of Washington. Occasionally worked as a guide on inclusive tours in her home country.

She passed away on November 15, 2015 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
- IMDb mini biography by: Peter-Patrick76

The weekly magazine "Novella 2000," #19, May 7, 1970, published in Milan, Italy, revealed in a two pages illustrated article, how the actress was expecting to have a baby in London, England, before marrying her boyfriend Carmelo Patrono. At the time she was living with her boyfriend's mother.