| Elisa Kadigia Bove | |
| Birth Place: | Mogadishu, British-administered Somaliland |
| Occupation: | actress |
| Years Active: | 1960s–1980s |
| Children: | 2 |
Elisa Kadigia Bove (born 1942) is an Italian actress of Italian-Somali descent.[1]
Daughter of an Italian soldier and a Somali woman, Bove began her film career acting in commercials. She first gained renown during a television campaign for Atlantic, a popular 1970s TV-set brand. After attending the Italian: [[Piccolo Teatro (Milan)|Piccolo Teatro]]|i=no directed by Giorgio Strehler, she began a long career as an actress and vocalist, between theater, film and television. She interpreted a number of compositions by the Italian avant-garde composer Luigi Nono, including Portuguese: A floresta é jovem e cheja de vida, Italian: Un volto del mare, Italian: [[Contrappunto dialettico alla mente]], Spanish; Castilian: Y entonces comprendió. She debuted as an actress in the first feature film directed by Valentino Orsini. She later starred in some B-movies in the late 1960s and 1980s, while her last role was in a comedy directed by Cristina Comencini.
Bove later starred in a number of Italian feature films, particularly in the Italian: [[giallo]]|i=no horror genre. Of the latter, she appeared in the 1980 film Macabre by Lamberto Bava.[2]
Besides cinematic work, Bove is the president of the Italian: Associazione Donne Immigrate Africane|i=no (ADIA; Association of African Immigrant Women), a non-profit organization serving immigrant women in Italy.[3]
Bove was married to Italian politician Achille Occhetto, with whom she had two sons, Malcolm and Massimiliano (both born in Sicily).[4]