Lorella De Luca

Who is Lorella De Luca?

Lorella De Luca is a retired Italian film, television, and voice actress. One of the most recognized ingenues of Italian cinema during the mid-to-late 1950s, she is best known for playing naive young girls in dramas and comedies.

She was born in Florence, Italy and, following her "discovery" at age 14, made her acting debut in the Federico Fellini film Il bidone. De Luca's breakout role, however, came a year later following her performance in Dino Risi's comedy Poor, But Beautiful and continued on in the genre, with appearances in Mario Monicelli films A Tailor's Maid and Doctor and the Healer, as well as in Duccio Tessari's Spaghetti Westerns A Pistol for Ringo and its sequel The Return of Ringo with Giuliano Gemma.

De Luca starred in a total of nine films directed by Tessari, whom she married in 1971, in addition to working behind the scenes as an assistant director. Their two children, Federica and Fiorenza Tessari, both became actresses.