Biography

She was a close friend of the writer and poet Cesare Pavese and the actor Raf Vallone .

First television director hired by RAI when television was launched in Italy.

Alda Grimaldi, known as Dada was the first lady director of Italian television, RAI.

After her beginnings as an actress at Fert, she won in 1955 a competition that guaranteed her a place at Rai (which at the time had its only headquarters in Turin) and a scholarship at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, where she shared courses with future film stars such as Giuseppe De Santis (who coined her nickname Dada) and Michelangelo Antonioni.

She was chosen by Luchino Visconti, working on "Ossessione", his first film, as an editorial secretary.