Vanessa Scalera
Acting
Biography
Vanessa Scalera (born 5 April 1977) is an Italian actress. She was born in Latiano, Apulia and later moved to Rome, where she graduated from the theatre school La Scaletta. She gained national stardom for portraying the role of Imma Tataranni in the tv series Imma Tataranni - Deputy Prosecutor, for which she won a Flaiano Prize in 2020. Other notable film credits have included Lea (2015), Diabolik (2021) and L'Arminuta (2021).
Born: April 5, 1977
Place of Birth: Latiano, Brindisi, Italy
Known For
L'Aquila - Grandi speranze
Filumena Marturano
Filumena has lived for years with a wealthy pastry chef. She forces him to marry her, but he soon asks to annul the marriage. She then reveals that one of her children is his, making him obsessed to know which one.
Sanremo Music Festival
The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Imma Tataranni
Imma Tataranni is a rather abrasive deputy prosecutor of the Matera Public Prosecutor's Office. She has the fashion sense of a rodeo clown, is gifted with a prodigious memory and used to solving cases with rather unorthodox methods.
Anti-Mafia Squad
Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within.
A Girl Returned
A 13 years old girl is forced to go living with another family for reasons unknown.
Diamonds
A film director gathers his favorite actresses, those he worked with and those he loved. He wants to make a film about women but he doesn’t reveal much: he observes them, takes cue, until his imaginary throw them into another era, in a past where the noise of the sewing machines fills a workplace handled and populated by women, where men have minor and marginal roles and cinema can be told from another point of view: the one of costume. Between loneliness, passions, anxieties, heartbreaking absence and unbreakable bonds, reality and fiction permeate, as well as the lives of the actresses and those of the characters, the competition and the sisterhood, the visible and the invisible.
My Family
A terminally ill father prepares his chaotic family to care for his two young kids and face life without him — but they must put old quarrels to rest.
Lea
Lea grew up in a crime family in Calabria. The father of her daughter Denise is also a member of the Mafia. Lea, however, wants a different life for her daughter, free of violence, fear and falsehood. She decides to cooperate with justice, to benefit of the witness protection scheme and attempts to run away... Inspired by the true story of Lea Garofalo, the struggle of a woman to escape the Mafia.
Palazzina LAF
Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get rid of, Caterino starts to track his colleagues, in search of reasons to report them. He then asks to be assigned himself to the Palazzino LAF where as punishment, some employees sit out their time with no job assignment. There he discovers that what looks like paradise is actually a strategy to psychologically break troublesome workers.
Filmography
as Lucia
as Bianca Vega / Vanessa
as Cosima Serrano
as Elena
as Amalia
as Tiziana Lagioia
as Filumena Marturano
as Luciana
as Irìna Nikolàevna Arkàdina
as Flora
as Mother
as Silvia
as Zia Anna
as Imma Tataranni
as Chiara Todini
as Laura
as Mariella
as Sonia Talenti
as Bella
as Lea Garofalo
as Infermiera
as Elena
as Deputato PD
as Suora Misericordiosa
as Francesca Diamante
as Pauline
as Pauline
as Self - Special Guest