Trivia

Sister of actress Patrizia Lari

At the 2015 Taormina Film Fest, where she received a special award for her career, Ralli announced her retirement from acting.

Ralli debuted as a child actress at 7; at 13 she made her theatrical debut, entering the stage company of Peppino De Filippo.

Starting from early eighties, Ralli focused her activities on stage.

In the mid-sixties she had a brief Hollywood career, starting from Blake Edwards' What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?.

Has been romantically linked to writer Sergio Amidei.

In 1993 she received a Flaiano Prize for her career, and in 2003 she was made a Grand Officer of the Italian Republic.

Ralli won a Nastro d'Argento award, as best actress, for La fuga (1964).

N 1959 she had a leading role in Roberto Rossellini's General Della Rovere, that won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, while in 1960 her performance in Escape by Night, still directed by Rossellini, was awarded with the Golden Gate Award for Best Actress at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

After appearing in Federico Fellini and Alberto Lattuada's Variety Lights (1950), Ralli had her first film roles of weight in mid-fifties, often in comedy films.

In 2003 she was awarded the honor of Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Republic by the President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.

At the age of fifteen, she won the Miss Sorriso Lazio beauty award as part of the Miss Italy contest of 1950.