Lelia Goldoni

Cast

“The thing about John [Cassavetes], in terms of both ‘Shadows’ and all the things he did, it seems to me was that he was always in a state of discovery, which I think is what love is really about.”

Biography

Lelia Goldoni (born 1 October 1936) is an American actress who appeared in a number of motion pictures and television shows starting in the late-1940s, beginning with uncredited cameo roles in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s House of Strangers (1949) and John Huston’s We Were Strangers (1949).

She costarred on the episode “Fair Exchange” of the British television series Danger Man (1964) with Patrick MacGoohan.

She is best known for co-starring in John Cassavetes’s groundbreaking film Shadows (1959) and playing the best friend of Ellen Burstyn’s character in Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974). —Wikipedia