Elli Medeiros

ELLI MEDEIROS

Elli Medeiros was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Her mother was a very busy actress and Elli was regularly hired each time a child was needed in a play or a TV show. she got her first part, at age 4, as Madame Butterfly's son, in the production of Puccini's opera at the Opera de Montevideo. This was Orson Welles' first role, at the same age! Elli's father vanished from her life when she was five. After living for a few years in Buenos Aires, when she was fourteen, Elli moved to Paris with her mother & stepfather, and she had to learn French in a couple of months so she could attend high school. She tried several schools, including an art sch...