Ida Galli

Ida Galli also known by the pseudonym Evelyn Stewart Sestola October 8 1939 is an Italian actress active between 1959 and 1990 She also used the pseudonyms Arianna Galli in her debut film Nel blu dipinto di blu and Isli Oberon in La frusta e il corpo She moved while still young to Rome where she earned her masters degree intending to pursue a teaching career not at all interested in film Her debut came thanks to a chance meeting with French actor Gérard Landry who in 1959 enabled her to get a small part in the musicarello film Nel blu dipinto di blu Later in the 1960s and 1970s she was employed as a character actress in numerous films ranging from arthouse to genre cinema including Federico Fellinis La dolce vita Luchino Viscontis Il Gattopardo and Antonio Pietrangelis Fantasmi a Roma followed by spaghetti westerns peplums horror films poliziotteschi and Italianstyle erotic comedies In 1965 in the film Un dollaro bucato she was first credited with the pseudonym Evelyn Stewart later used in two of her bestknown appearances Il medico della mutua and its sequel alongside Alberto Sordi She appeared in more than sixty films until 1990 when she ended her film experience