Maria Laura Rocca
| Maria Laura Rocca | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Maria Laura Gayno 5 October 1917 Pasian di Prato, Italy |
| Died |
6 May 1999 (aged 81) Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | Actress |
Maria Laura Rocca (5 October 1917 – 6 May 1999) was an Italian actress and writer.
Life and career
Born Maria Laura Gayno in Pasian di Prato, Udine, Rocca spent her adolescence in Genoa, her mother's birthplace.[1] After acting in some amateur dramatics, she studied drama under Teresa Franchini, with whom she also made her professional debut on stage at 30 years old.[1] In films, she was mainly active in supporting roles in adventure and peplum genres, sometimes credited as Manuela Kent.[1] She retired from acting in the mid-1960s.[1] In 1959 she was the author of the book Cina senza muraglia, and in 1969 she wrote the film Mr. Superinvisible, being credited as Mary Eller.[1]
Personal life
In 1939 Rocca married Giuseppe Bisazza, and they had a son, Oreste.[1] Widowed, in 1948 she remarried to Communist politician Umberto Terracini.[1]
Rocca died in a clinic in Rome, following a long illness, in 1999, at 81 years old.[2]
Selected filmography
- Attention! Bandits! (1951)
- Art. 519 codice penale (1952)
- At the Edge of the City (1953)
- For You I Have Sinned (1953)
- Love in Rome (1960)
- The Fury of Achilles (1962)
- Imperial Venus (1962)
- The Fall of Rome (1963)
- Secret of the Sphinx (1964)
- Messalina vs. the Son of Hercules (1964)
- Lo scippo (1965)
- Captain from Toledo (1965)