Paola Borboni (1 January 1900 – 9 April 1995)[1] was an Italian stage and film actress whose career spanned nearly eight decades of cinema.

[1] Borboni made her stage debut in 1916, beginning to take minor film roles soon afterwards.

She gained notoriety in 1925 when she appeared topless in a stage performance of Carlo Veneziani's Alga Marina as a mermaid, exposing her breasts.

[2][1] She returned to the silver screen in 1936 in the Mario Mattoli film L'Uomo che sorride.

Between 1936 and 1956 her career was at its peak and her roles gradually became less numerous in the decades that followed, making a final appearance in the Giorgio Mosa film Blue dolphin - l'avventura continua in 1990.