The dancer and New York native also appeared in 'The Italian Job,' 'The Day of the Locust' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.'
A second cousin of famed New York Yankees shortstop Phil Ruzzuto, Lelia Vita Goldoni was born in New York on Oct. 1, 1936. She was raised in Los Angeles, where she was one of the Lester Horton Dancers alongside Alvin Ailey and Carmen de Lavallade.
Goldoni studied acting with Jeff Corey and at age 19 moved back to New York, where she became a student at a drama workshop run by Cassavetes and theater director Burt Lane in midtown Manhattan. Cassavettes then cast her as the independent, light-skinned Black woman Lelia at the center of his debut film, the independent masterpiece
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