Esmeralda Ruspoli

Donna Esmeralda Giovanna Amelia Palma Maria dei Principi Ruspoli-Poggio Suasa (24 June 1928 – 1 September 1988) was an Italian actress and noblewoman.

A granddaughter of Mario Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa, she was a member of the black nobility in Rome.

She attended the Lycée français Chateaubriand in Rome until the end of World War II, when she was sent to a boarding school in Lausanne.

[2] In the 1950s, she quit the nursing courses in order to study theatre, attending the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico.

[2] She went on to act in various films including Kriminal, Romeo and Juliet, L'Avventura, Footprints on the Moon, A Girl Called Jules, The Three Faces, A Place for Lovers, Seven Seas to Calais, and The Hassled Hooker.

Ruspoli as Lady Gold in the 1966 film Kriminal .