Federica Ranchi | |
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Born | 5 May 1939 84) Trieste, Italy | (age
Occupation | Actress |
Federica Ranchi (born 5 May 1939) is an Italian former film actress.
Born in Trieste, while a student at liceo linguistico was noted by a Cines employee through a picture of her ballet company, and subsequently won an audition for the Leonardo De Mitri's comedy-drama Wives and Obscurities . [1] [2]
Typically cast in roles of sensitive and fragile women, following several roles with auteurs such as Valerio Zurlini and Gillo Pontecorvo and in some genre films, in 1963 Ranchi married a Greek shipowner and eventually retired from showbusiness, even refusing a five-year contract with Dino De Laurentiis. [1] [2]
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