Gaia Girace

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Gaia Girace
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Girace in 2024
Born (2003-10-21) 21 October 2003 (age 20)
Vico Equense, Naples, Italy
OccupationActress
Years active2018–present

Gaia Girace (born 21 October 2003) is an Italian actress. She is best known for her role as Raffaella "Lila" Cerullo in the HBO coming-of-age television series My Brilliant Friend. [1]

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Biography

Gaia Girace grew up in Vico Equense, Naples. [2] Her father is a lawyer and her mother works in insurance. [3] She attended the Liceo Classico Publio Virgilio in Meta, [4] and was cast in My Brilliant Friend in her first year. [5]

At the age of 13, Girace began attending acting classes, citing a need to express herself. Soon after, she auditioned for My Brilliant Friend, which had been casting actresses from Naples. [6] She underwent 7 months of auditions [3] before being chosen to play Lila Cerullo out of 10,000 girls. [5]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2021I santiMariaShort film [7]
2023GirasoliLucia [8]

Television

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2018-22 My Brilliant Friend Raffaella "Lila" Cerullo21 episodes [9]
2022The King's FavoriteCatherine de Médicis2 episodes [10]
2023 The Good Mothers Denise Cosco5 episodes [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Povoledo, Elisabetta (25 February 2022). "Growing Up Onscreen With 'My Brilliant Friend'". The New York Times.
  2. ↑ Myers, Marc (1 March 2022). "The Italian Actresses in 'My Brilliant Friend' Talk About Their Own Childhoods and Different Paths to Stardom". Wall Street Journal.
  3. 1 2 Corci, Di Corinne (1 April 2023). "Gaia Girace, parlare a voce alta". Cosmopolitan (in Italian).
  4. ↑ "Gaia Girace l'attrice originaria della Penisola Sorrentina intervistata dal Corriere per il ritorno dell' "Amica Geniale"". Positano News (in Italian). 18 January 2022.
  5. 1 2 Manca, Mario (4 April 2023). "Gaia Girace: "L'Amica geniale, la mia adolescenza strappata e il ruolo della ragazza coraggiosa di The Good Mothers"". Vanity Fair Italia (in Italian).
  6. ↑ Reilly, Phoebe (7 November 2018). "Finding the Ferrante Four". Vulture.
  7. ↑ "I santi". RIFF - Rome Independent Film Festival. 29 October 2021.
  8. ↑ De Marco, Camillo (10 January 2023). "Shooting is now underway on Catrinel Marlon's first work Girasoli". Cineuropa.
  9. ↑ "My Brilliant Friend". HBO.
  10. ↑ ""The King's Favorite," an ambitious historical fresco". Unifrance. 7 April 2022.
  11. ↑ Vivarelli, Nick (21 February 2023). "Disney+ Series 'The Good Mothers,' Real Story of Women Who Dare to Defy Italian Mob, Marks U.K. Italy Collaboration". Variety.


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