{{Short description|Italian actress and voice actress}} {{Infobox person | name = Micaela Esdra | image = Micaela Esdra - Altissima pressione.jpg | caption = Esdra in ''Highest Pressure'' (1965) | birth_name = Micaela Carmosino | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|1|29|df=y}} | birth_place = Rome, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = {{hlist|Actress|voice actress}} | years_active = 1964-present | spouse = {{marriage|Walter Pagliaro|1988}} }} '''Micaela Esdra''' (born '''Micaela Carmosino'''; 29 January 1952) is an Italian actress and voice actress.
==Biography== Esdra began her career in the mid-1960s attending Rina Morelli's acting school and when she was very young, was directed on stage by Giorgio Strehler, Luchino Visconti,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Redazione |title=Recensito incontra Micaela Esdra: "Il teatro è la cosa più bella che un attore possa fare" |url=https://www.recensito.net/rubriche/interviste/incontro-con-micaela-esdra.html |access-date=2023-10-25 |website=www.recensito.net |language=it-it}}</ref> and Luca Ronconi.<ref name=bio>{{cite news|url=http://www.caffeeuropa.it/attualita01/116novecento-esdra.html|title=Intervista a Micaela Esdra|newspaper=caffeeuropa.it|date=19 January 2001|accessdate=29 December 2019}}</ref>
As a film actress, she starred in several musicarellis and horror films, including Mario Bava's ''Kill, Baby, Kill''. Esdra has been also very active on TV and in film dubbing: during the 1990s, she became the official dubber of Winona Ryder and Kim Basinger.<ref name=bio/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/voci/vocime.htm |title=Micaela Esdra's dubbing contributions|publisher=Antoniogenna.net |date= |accessdate=29 December 2019}}</ref>
===Personal life=== In 1988, Esdra married stage director Walter Pagliaro.<ref name=":0" />
==Partial filmography== * ''Made in Italy'' (1965) * ''Highest Pressure'' (1965) * ''Kill, Baby, Kill'' (1966) * ''VIP my Brother Superman'' (1968) * ''A Black Ribbon for Deborah'' (1974)
==Dubbed actresses== * Kim Basinger in ''My Stepmother Is an Alien'', ''L.A. Confidential'', ''The Burning Plain'', ''Grudge Match'' and ''Third Person'' * Jane Birkin in ''Je t'aime moi non plus'' * Helena Bonham Carter in ''Fight Club'' * Sandra Bullock in ''Demolition Man'' * Edwige Fenech in ''The Schoolteacher Goes to Boys' High'' * Carrie Fisher in ''The Blues Brothers'' * Melanie Griffith in ''Lolita'' * Daryl Hannah in ''Blade Runner'', ''Legal Eagles'' and ''Roxanne'' * Goldie Hawn in ''Shampoo'' * Olivia Hussey in ''Death on the Nile'' * Ashley Judd in ''Heat'' * Jessica Lange in ''Big Fish'' * Winona Ryder in ''Bram Stoker's Dracula'', ''The Age of Innocence'', ''Little Women'', ''Reality Bites'', ''How to Make an American Quilt'', ''Girl, Interrupted'' and ''The Informers'' * Kristin Scott Thomas in ''Random Hearts'' * Cybill Shepherd in ''Taxi Driver'' * Tilda Swinton in ''The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' * Debra Winger in ''Thank God It's Friday''
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category-inline}} *{{IMDb name|0260531|Micaela Esdra}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Esdra, Micaela}} Category:1952 births Category:Living people Category:Actresses from Rome Category:Italian film actresses Category:Italian voice actresses Category:Italian stage actresses Category:Italian child actresses Category:20th-century Italian actresses Category:21st-century Italian actresses