Lorella De Luca

Birth Name:

Lorella de Luca

Birth Place:

Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Profession

Actress, Assistant director

Worked closely with her husband, director Duccio Tessari, until his death, appearing in a number of his films and sometimes working as an assistant director
A brain tumor cost her her sight, and eventually contributed to her death at the age of 73
Made her film debut in Federico Fellini's "Il Bidone" in 1955, acting opposite the Oscar-winning Broderick Crawford
A director followed her home and convinced her father that she should be in films when she was 14
Her breakthrough role was in the Dino Risi classic comedy "Poveri ma belli" or "Poor, but Handsome․"
Appeared in several Spaghetti Westerns directed by her future husband Duccio Tessari
During the mid-1950s, she was one of the most recognizable ingénues of Italian cinema
In the 1990s, she retired from her career as an actress
Voiced a campaign advisor in the 2009 video game "Empire: Total War․"
A pictorial of her appeared in a 1963 issue of "Exquis․"

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