She won a beauty pageant and attended il Centro Sperimentale di
Cinematografia (The Center for Experimental Cinematography). In 1956,
she received an offer to go to Hollywood and attend the Actor's Studio
but didn't take the offer for undisclosed reasons.
She began her film career at the age of 15 with a role in the film
I pinguini ci guardano (1955)
(The Penguins Watch Us) in which the animals at the zoo watched the
humans around them and cultivated some very interesting thoughts. Many
sources, however, list her first film as
Mogli pericolose (1958). She is
uncredited in this comedy which was directed by
Luigi Comencini.
Neri was also much in demand for erotic films. She played Zoe, in
Jesús Franco's
99 Women (1969), a movie about
women in prison who must turn to each other for comfort while dealing
with a sadistic warden. In 1971 she was Eleanor Stuart,
Farley Granger's 'wife' in
Amuck! (1972).