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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1977-04-05

Place of Birth

Latiano, Brindisi, Italy

Vanessa Scalera

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).

Known for

Sanremo Music Festival

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.

Anti-Mafia Squad

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.

Imma Tataranni

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.

My Family

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.

Romulus

Romulus

The story of Romulus and his twin brother Remus, in eighth century B.C. as seen through the eyes of three people marked by death, loneliness and violence.

Dormant Beauty

Dormant Beauty

A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.

Diamonds

Diamonds

In 1970s Rome, a filmmaker gathers actresses for a new project, which triggers memories of his past working in a Roman costume shop, run by Alberta and Gabriella, navigating personal and professional challenges while creating costumes for a major film.

This Is Not Hollywood

This Is Not Hollywood

On August 26, 2010, a girl named Sarah disappears in Avetrana. The town is in turmoil, especially her cousin Sabrina. It looks like an innocent escape, but it's not. While everyone searches for her, Sarah has simply vanished without a trace. In one of the best-known cases in Italian true crime, this is the disconcerting story of a disappearance, narrated through the eyes of the protagonists.

L'Aquila - Grandi speranze

L'Aquila - Grandi speranze

Diabolik

Diabolik

1960s, the city of Clerville. The forthcoming visit of heiress Eva Kant, who'll be bringing a famous pink diamond with her, catches the attention of Diabolik, the infallible and elusive thief whose real identity is unknown: while trying to steal the jewel, he finds himself bewitched by Eva's charm, a feeling she may be reciprocating. But the police, led by relentless Inspector Ginko, is rapidly closing in on him...

Vincere

Vincere

The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws.

Run to You

Run to You

Gianni is a serial seducer but his life is destined to change when he meets Chiara, a beautiful woman who has had an accident and is paraplegic.

Autobiografia erotica

Autobiografia erotica

Aristide and Mariella see each other again after 20 years in an apartment in Rome. They're not friends, rather two strangers that met once for a few hours and had a rushed sexual encounter. They start a game in which they relive and analyze their first encounter, comparing two very different sexual experiences, searching for common ground.

Il Ritratto

Il Ritratto

Claudia works in the police as a forensic sketch artist. Her job is to give shape to people's identity. When Arianna, a young girl victim of attempted rape describes her attacker, Claudia sees her husband's face. The seed of doubt is planted in Claudia's heart and begins to sprout.

The Fire Within You

The Fire Within You

Antonio, who fled Naples many years ago, has built a family and a successful career in Milan, far from his mother Angela — a woman excessive in both her virtues and her flaws, irresistible, old-fashioned and hostile like few others — who has come to visit for Christmas and seems determined to stay. Christmas Eve dinner becomes an emotional battlefield, at once comic and fierce, bringing to the surface a past of impositions and misunderstandings. With a stubborn capon that refuses to end up in the pot, a daughter whose arrival remains uncertain, and an unexpected distinguished guest, the evening turns into a reckoning between mother and son destined to change the meaning of their bond forever: a love that burns like a fire within, one that never dies out — not even by leaving.