Crostona, Ada

[Ciavazzaro]

Ada Crostona in the 80s - Pic from "Trastevere App"

Ada Crostona (real name: Ada Passeri) was born in the Roman neighborhood of Trastevere, where she lived all her life (in the profile picture she's sitted in the Vicolo de' Cinque).

She began to make movies in 1959 with the classic Nella città l'inferno by Renato Castellani. She wasn't a professionist, but she has participated in some films until the early 1980s.

Filmography

1959

1. Arrangiatevi .... Woman in bar / Newsstand vendor (uncredited)
2. La cento chilometri .... Sora Italia (uncredited)
3. Nella città l'inferno .... Moby Dick (credited as "Ada Passeri")
   
   1960
4. L'ultimo zar .... Street seller giving information (uncredited)
5. La dolce vita .... Woman by the miracle tree (uncredited)
   
   1961
6. La viaccia .... Cashier of the closed house (credited as "Ada Passeri")
   
   1962
7. Marco Polo .... Tia Balena] (credited as "Ada Passeri")
   
   1971
8. Trastevere .... Sora Filomena (uncredited)
   
   1972
9. Roma .... Roman woman (uncredited)
   
   1973
10. Teresa la ladra .... Convict (uncredited)
    
    1980
11. Un sacco bello .... Peanuts vendor (uncredited)

[Emiliano]

Un sacco bello (1980) as Penauts vendor

[Emiliano]

Her most important and famous role, as convict nicknamed Moby Dick in Renato Castellani's Nella città l'inferno (1959).

[Ciavazzaro]

Her big role Trastevere (1971) as Sora Filomena

[Emiliano]

Teresa la ladra (1973) as Convict with a short line with Monica Vitti.

[Johan Melle]

Ada also appears in two sequences in Fellini's Roma (1972) as a Roman woman. First she can be glimpsed very briefly among the audience members at the Teatrino della Barafonda

And then she is present at the Festa de' Noantri celebration at the end of the film

[Johan Melle]

La cento chilometri (1959) as Sora Italia

[van den bremt rudy]

Arrangiatevi (1959) seen in two sequences as woman in bar and as newsstand vendor
uncredited parts in this movie set in Rome in post-war Italy.

first sequence woman in bar

second sequence as a newsstand vendor

new entry for filmography

[van den bremt rudy]

La viaccia (1961) as cashier of the closed house.

Credited role, she played again under name Ada Passeri.

Images upgraded - Nick

[PeplumParadise]

Marco Polo (1962), credited as Ada Passeri, as Tia Balena

Extra images and role added