Franca Parisi

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Franca Parisi
Il figlio dell'uomo (1954) Franca Parisi.png
Parisi in The Shadow on the Hill (1954)
NationalityItalian
OccupationActress

Franca Parisi is an Italian actress.

Biography

Parisi graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome in 1955, and made her screen debut that same year in Raffaello Matarazzo's film The White Angel . She then acted in a number of films of the peplum or drama genre, sometimes under the pseudonym Margaret Taylor. In 1959, she married the Austrian actor Erwin Strahl. [1]

Contents

In the '60s, Parisi came to television, where she starred in many television dramas : memorably, she played Jane in Anton Giulio Majano's The black arrow.

Selected filmography

Cinema

Television

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