Daria Nicolodi(1950-2020)

Has a minor role in every installment of former partner Dario Argento's "Three Mothers" trilogy. Most notably, she provided the voice of Mater Suspiriarum in Suspiria (1977) and played one of that character's victims in Mother of Tears (2007).

I wrote Suspiria (1977) for Dario Argento; title, subject and script. The inspiration came from a tale my grandmother, Yvonne, used to tell me when I was a child, after an experience she had in a northern acting academy where she discovered the teachers were teaching arts, but also black magic. I was fond of this story of hers more than Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, and when I told it to Dario it was natural for him to fall in love with it too. It was his first step from thrillers to fantasy-alchemy movies and we did it together. [an interview with Christian Sellers of GoreZone Magazine UK]