Born
Clotilde Anna Maria Galli in
Milan, Italy, Galli was the daughter of a well known theatrical
character actress, Armellina Nesti. She debuted on stage as a child actress in a
Milanese dialect stage company, the Olivieri company, and in 1890 she joined the stage company led by . In 1900 she became main actress in the Talli-Gramatica-Calabresi, and in the following years she worked in the companies led by
Enrico Viarisio,
Enzo Biliotti,
Antonio Gandusio and
Nino Besozzi. Galli made her film debut in 1914, in two silent films directed by
Nino Oxilia. During the
World War I, she voluntarily served in hospitals, entertaining wounded soldiers as a
puppeteer. In 1935 she had a large success with the
Giuseppe Adami's comedy play
Felicita Colombo, and in 1937 she starred in a
film adaptation with the same name directed by
Mario Mattoli. ==Selected filmography==