Rosanna Schiaffino

Rosanna Schiaffino (25 November 1939 – 17 October 2009) was an Italian film actress. She appeared on the covers of Italian, German, French, British and American magazines.

Early life She was born in Genoa, Liguria to a well-off family. Her mother encouraged her showbusiness ambitions, helping her to study privately at a drama school. She also took part in beauty contests. When she was 14 she won the Miss Liguria beauty contest, moving into modelling jobs, with photographs in important magazines, including Life.

Film career She began a promising acting career in the post-neorealist cinema of the 1950s. She was noticed by film producer Franco Cristaldi, who paired her with Marcello Mastroianni in Piece of the Sky in 1959. More important was her second film for him, La sfida (The Challenge), directed by Francesco Rosi, where she made a name for her powerful but sensitive performance as a Neapolitan girl, inspired by the real-life character of Pupetta Maresca. The film was well received at the 1958 Venice Film Festival.

Jet set Schiaffino began a new life with the jet set. During the summer of 1980, in Portofino, she met the handsome playboy and steel industry heir Giorgio Enrico Falck, who had also just divorced. Their affair was big news for the gossip tabloids. - Maria La corruzione (1963) - Adriana The Long Ships (1964) - Aminah The Cavern (1964) - Anna Red Dragon (1965) - Carol The Mandrake (1965) - Lucrezia El Greco (1966) - Jeronima de las Cuevas La strega in amore (1966) - Aura Drop Dead Darling (1966) - Francesca di Rienzi The Rover (1967) - Arlette Encrucijada para una monja (1967) - Sister Maria Simon Bolivar (1969) - Consuelo Hernandez Check to the Queen (1969) - Margaret Mevin 7 fois... par jour (1971) - Eva Trastevere (1971) - Caterina Peretti In Love, Every Pleasure Has Its Pain (1971) - Betìa Ettore lo fusto (1972) - Elena The Heroes (1973) - Katrin, Greek prostitute The Man Called Noon (1973) - Fan Davidge Silence the Witness (1974) - Luisa Sironi The Killer Reserved Nine Seats (1974) - Vivian Commissariato di notturna (1974) - Sonia Il magnate (1974) - Clelia Cagliostro (1975) - Lorenza Balsamo La trastienda (1975) - Lourdes La ragazza dalla pelle di corallo (1976) - Laura Don Giovanni in Sicilia (1977, TV miniseries) - Ninetta (final appearance)