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Eleonora Romandini (Milan, February 16, 1993) is an Italian actress. She is best known for her role as Isabella in the second season of the HBO television series The White Lotus (2022), for which she won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.

Biography

Eleonora Romandini was born in Milan in 1993, from an early age she showed great interest in art and began studying acting. After graduating from the Berchet classical high school in Milan, she completed a single-cycle master's degree in Law at the State University of Milan in 2019. While at university, she studied Film Acting at the Accademia09 in Milan. Just after graduation, Eleonora moved to Rome to pursue her acting career full-time.

Career

In 2020, she starred in the short film Le Mythe Dior directed by Matteo Garrone to present Dior's Fall-Winter collection designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri during the pandemic period. In 2021 she worked alongside Pierfrancesco Favino in the film Corro da te directed by Riccardo Milani as Giulia. In the same year, she starred with Claudio Gioè, Ester Pantano and Domenico Centamore in the Rai series Makari directed by Michele Soavi, in the role of Constance. In 2022, Eleonora made her international debut in the second season of The White Lotus, an anthology series produced by HBO written and directed by Mike White, as Isabella, a luxury hotel receptionist employed by Valentina, played by Sabrina Impacciatore. Role for which she won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2023. The year ended with the role of Alessia in Aldo Giovanni e Giacomo's latest film Il Grande Giorno, directed by Massimo Venier, a film that won the Golden Ticket and the Spectator's David di Donatello. In 2023 she reappeared on television with the role of Lucia in the Rai series Il Nostro Generale directed by Lucio Pellegrini, alongside Antonio Folletto, which tells about the special paramilitary unit established by General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa. In the same year she filmed two international projects to be released in 2024: the American film I Don't Understand You directed by David Joseph Craig and Brian Crano in which Eleonora plays Francesca alongside Nick Kroll, Andrew Rannels, Morgan Spector, and Nunzia Schiano, and the BBC-produced British series Kidnapped, directed by Al Mackay as Nicoletta alongside Nadia Parkes, Lorenzo Richelmy, Julian Swiezewski, Emmanuele Aita, Laura Mazzi and Fabrizio Matteini.

Filmography

Cinema

I run to you - directed by Riccardo Milani (2021) The Big Day - directed by Massimo Venier (2022) I Don't Understand You - directed by David Joseph Craig and Brian Crano (2024) Television The Swan Company - TV series, directed by Ivan Cotroneo (2019) Ladies' Paradise - TV series, directed by Isabella Leoni (2020) Makari - TV series, directed by Michele Soavi (2022) The White Lotus - TV series, directed by Mike White (2022) Our General - TV series, directed by Lucio Pellegrini (2023) Kidnapped - TV series, directed by Al Mackay (2024) Short films The Nights of San Lorenzo - directed by Luca Lucini (2016) Swallows - directed by Riccardo Petrillo (2019) Le Mythe Dior - directed by Matteo Garrone (2020) Web Love Born on the Web - directed by Marcello Macchia, Maccio Capatonda (2016) The Phone Book - directed by Marcello Macchia, Maccio Capatonda (2018) Feathers video clip by Leo Gassmann - directed by Edoardo Palma (2019)

Awards and nominations

Screen Actors Guild Award 2023 - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for the White Lotus.