Stefania Rocca
Birthday: Born in 1971-04-24 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Deathday: Alive
Stefania Rocca was born on April 24, 1971 in Turin. She is best known for her roles in the films Nirvana (1997), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Dracula (2002). Rocca also was the lead in Dario Argento's The Card Player. Among her most recent appearances, she was in Alessandro D'Alatri's comedy film Commediasexi where she played the main character, Pia Roncaldi. She starred as Hannah in the 1997 film Solomon. Rocca was born on 24 April 1971 in Turin, the daughter of a Fiat chief of security and a stylist. Beginning in her adolescence Rocca studied piano, singing, and dancing at the Teatro Stabile di Torino. In the late 1980s she moved to Milan where she started working as a model; in Milan, she enrolled in a series of acting courses. In 1993, thanks to a scholarship, she joined the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. She also studied at the Actors Studio in New York City. Rocca is married to her long-time partner Carlo Capasa, whom she wed in a highly secretive ceremony in 2013. The couple has been together since 2005, and has two sons. Rocca made her acting debut with a secondary role in Giulio Base's Policemen but her breakout role was the blue-haired Naima in the Gabriele Salvatores' cyberpunk film Nirvana (1997). After enrolling a course at the Actors Studio in New York, in 1998, Rocca had her first main role in the controversial erotic thriller Viol@, and for her performance she was nominated to the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress. One year later, Rocca appeared in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley as Jude Law's lover, then she appeared in other international productions, including Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost, Mike Figgis' experimental Hotel and Tom Tykwer's Heaven. In 2003, Rocca had her main commercial success in Italy, with Alessandro D'Alatri's comedy Casomai, which also gave her a nomination for Best Actress at the Nastro d'Argento and David di Donatello Awards. In 2005, she played a blind lesbian in the Academy Award-nominated drama The Beast in the Heart, and for her performance, she was nominated for the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress. Since the mid-2000s, Rocca has mainly appeared on television. She is also active on stage.
TV Credits
Cops - Una banda di poliziotti
Character: Margherita Nardelli
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Tutti pazzi per amore
Character: Laura Del Fiore
Tutti Pazzi Per Amore is an Italian television series that aired on Rai 1 from December 7, 2008 to January 1, 2012, consisting of three seasons. The show is set in Rome and follows the love story between a single father, Paolo Giorgi, and a single mother, Laura Del Fiore, and the adventures of the extended family that originates from their relationship. The main characters are Paolo Giorgi and his daughter Cristina, Laura Del Fiore and her son Emanuele and her daughter Nina. Around these main c...
Altri tempi
Character: Duchessa
Senator Merlin's battle for the abolition of houses of ill repute, told by the prostitute Maddalena through a letter. A story of redemption and female self-determination, in a historical context reconstructed with skill and accuracy....
Dracula
Character: Mina
Dracula is an Italian 2 part TV-miniseries, directed by Roger Young. It is based on the 1897 novel of the same name by Bram Stoker, though it updates the events of the novel to the present day....
Mentre ero via
Character: Caterina
Monica Grossi wakes up after four months from a coma without remembering anything about the last eight years of her life. With the help of Stefano, brother of her alleged lover, who died in mysterious circumstances, she tries to reconstruct her past step by step to understand if she is really the woman that everyone remembers....
Adriano Olivetti - La forza di un sogno
Character: Karen Bates
In post–World War II Italy, genius industrialist Adriano Olivetti oversees the creation of the first all-Italian electronic calculator while theorizing a revolutionary business model based on the idea that profit should be reinvested for the benefits of the whole society. His vision catches the attention of powerful interests......
Gli anni spezzati
Character: Grazia Sossi (Il Giudice)
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Italian Restaurant
Character:
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D'Artagnan et les Trois Mousquetaires
Character: Anne D'Autriche
Exile and possibly death are in the cards for the Queen of France in this edgy cloak-and-dagger adventure....
Voci notturne
Character: Carla
A group of young people get in touch with an occultist sect which has been active since before W.W.II....
Movie Credits
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Character: Silvana
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder....
La primavera della mia vita
Character: la manager
The daring story of two friends, with a common musical past and a future to be written....
Heaven
Character: Regina
Cate Blanchett stars as Philippa, a British teacher living in Turin, Italy, who has seen many friends, including her husband, fall victim to drug overdoses. Philippa has repeatedly contacted the police with information about Turin's biggest drug dealer but, complicit in his dealings, they have completely ignored her. So Philippa decides to dole out her own form of justice with a homemade bomb -- setting her off on a journey from young widow to fugitive on the run....
Operation Valkyrie
Character: Margarethe v. Oven
In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg, goes to a meeting with the Fuhrer in charge of exploding the place. However, Hitler survives and the officers are executed. This unsuccessful operation was called "Valkyrie Operation", and this realistic movie discloses this true event....
Five Moons Plaza
Character: Fernanda
Just the night before his retirement District Attorney Saracini is given a film showing the kidnapping of Aldo Moro. As the District Attorney takes on the case he along with his team finds more compelling and secretive evidences. Too many secrets are found that should stayed as secrets....
L'amore è eterno finché dura
Character: Carlotta
Gilberto, 50enne, si fa coinvolgere in una cosiddetta speed-date, una gara in cui i protagonisti devono trovare un partner in 3 minuti. Arrestato, deve confessare tutto in presenza della moglie che lo sbatte fuori di casa. Rifugiatosi da amici scopre che il suo migliore amico è amante della moglie e comincia a tentare di avviare nuove relazioni che falliscono tutte....
Nirvana
Character: Naima
Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless "life", Jimi begins a search for people who can help him both to discover what happened to Lisa and to delete his game before it is released....
Viol@
Character: Marta / Viola
Marta works for a poll company, listening all day to other people's dreams while leading a cold and solitary life. Having just cut off a long relationship, she tries an online sex chat under an alias, meeting a man who begins to advance more and more audacious requests, until they decide to discover their respective identities....
La cura del gorilla
Character: Vera
A bodyguard with split personality is hired to protect an elderly American actor sent to Italy to promote a western video game. They get on each other's nerves but eventually form a bond. He also meets a pretty social worker with problems....
The Card Player
Character: Anna Mari
Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the maniac's tortured victims having their throats cut in explicit close-up detail via webcam. She teams up with British cop John Brennan to find out the identity of the murderer....
Commediasexi
Character: Pia
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Prima dammi un bacio
Character: Adele
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Casomai
Character: Stefania
Tommaso meets Stefania. They like each other, they fall in love, they get married. A child is also born. It all started very well, it evolved well, then discreetly, little by little until the crisis. It seemed impossible, yet the love, which seemed really solid, perhaps fell apart, even turning into hatred. Who knows if there is still time to do so. Volo, ex Jena, tries to be a real actor. An appeal test is required....
Don't Tell
Character: Emilia
Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe middle-class family. But a big secret is hidden within her heart. Sabina wants to contact again her brother, a University teacher in the US, to try to understand what is happened in their past. What is the secret? She is determined to bring clarity and sere...
Solomon
Character: Anna
David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon, fierce rivals, since both are prospective heirs to the throne and only one can be....
Love Hurts
Character: Germana
A holiday in Sicily tests the relationship between Germana and Elisabetta, two friends in the grip of a sentimental crisis....
Little Lady
Character: Malvina Farelli
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Voce del verbo amore
Character: Francesca
Ugo and Francesca have been married for ten years, but mutually decide to break up in a graceful way. They start singles' life again, having to deal with their children, their jobs and social relationships alone. They even both start seeing someone else, until jealousy arises. Perhaps their love is not over yet......
D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
Character: Anne D'Autriche
Exile and possibly death are in the cards for the Queen of France in this edgy cloak-and-dagger adventure based on Alexandre Dumas' unrivaled tale of THE THREE MUSKETEERS and their reckless romantic friend D'Artagnan. Supernatural powers and dark mystical forces add an exciting twist to this classic tale....
Hotel
Character: Sophie
A sex worker, a hired killer, and a movie crew cross paths in a Venice hotel where human meat is on the menu....
In principio erano le mutande
Character: Teresa
Imma falls in love with a fireman....
A Fairy Tale Wedding
Character: Luciana
After twenty years, five high school classmates meet again at Daniele's wedding, the only one who has built a career for himself. During a long weekend in Switzerland, the five friends rediscover the affection and complicity of the past, and they get a chance to straighten out their destinies. A whirlwind of misunderstandings will bring down their shaky balances, and they'll all find the courage to put themselves on the line and start their lives afresh...
Amiche davvero!!
Character: claudia
A week in the life of Claudia e Francesca and all their friends....
Gli anni spezzati
Character: Grazia Sossi
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The Invader
Character: Agnès de Yael
An African immigrant living illegally in Belgium is desperate to find his own sense of belonging....
Mafalda of Savoy
Character: Mafalda di Savoia
The story of Mafalda is like the one of Cinderella, just the other way round. The dramatic real story of a Italian princess, born and raised in the comforts of a golden court, who will be forced by war to share the fate of ordinary people in a concentration camp. Mafalda di Savoia was chosen to represent the decline of nobility and the errors of war, which separate and destroy even noble families. Mafalda is a victim of political strategies that overlook her, and her tragic death shows the level...
Mary
Character: Brenda Sax
The filming of a movie about Jesus’ death deeply affects three people — an egotistical director who cast himself as Christ, the actress playing Mary Magdalene who cannot bring herself to leave Bethlehem and a TV journalist whose spiritual doubts start to consume him....
Resurrection
Character: Katjuscha
At the end of the XIX century in Russia, Prince Dimitri Necklivdov is called as a jury-man in a trial. The defendant is Katiuscia Maslova, accused of murdering a merchant in order to rob him. Dimitri recognizes Katiuscia: she was the girl he seduced many years before. Dimitri decides to save her....
Il terzo tempo
Character: Teresa
Samuel has spent the last few years in and out a juvenile detention center for the crimes theft, assault and drug dealing. Without a real family, he is placed in a rehabilitation program and under the supervision Vincenzo, a social worker undergoing a profound existential crisis: having lost wife in a car crash, Vincenzo is convinced work is pointless and he is frustrated by the performance the down and out rugby team that he coaches after work. When Vincenzo catches the boy in a scuffle, he bec...
Go Go Tales
Character: Debby
A financial struggle between owners of a go-go club threatens its future....
Adriano Olivetti - La forza di un sogno
Character: Karen Bates
In post–WWII Italy, inspired industrialist Adriano Olivetti oversees the creation of the first all-Italian electronic calculator while theorizing a revolutionary business model based on the idea that profit should be reinvested for the benefits of the whole society. An utopian vision that catches the attention of powerful interests......
Love's Labour's Lost
Character: Jacquanetta
The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings....
Abbraccialo per me
Character:
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A Woman
Character: Natalie
A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dead wife begins to consume her....
Infinitesimal calculus
Character:
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L'amico di Wang
Character: Simonetta
Paolo invites his American friend Sam to Rome with the promise of a film to direct, but it takes a lot of money to make it, and they plan to steal a Modigliani painting from a wealthy producer....
Rosa and Cornelia
Character: Rosa
A Venetian countess, pregnant with illegitimate child, befriends her also pregnant servant girl and they almost become more than friends, but her family, infuriated over her scandalous pregnancy, has a plan for her and the baby....
Non si ruba a casa dei ladri
Character: Daniela Russo
Antonio, an honest citizen, seeks his revenge against Simone, a dishonest politician. Antonio initially wanted to report him but then, knowing Italy, a country in which the justice process is very long and uncertain, he decides to take revenge in another way: he discovers that his enemy has hidden the proceeds of his misdeeds in a Swiss bank and decides to organize a hit to get back what was stolen from him. To accomplish the feat, Antonio sets up a small gang, made up of non-professionals who h...
L'amore rubato
Character:
The stories of five women very different from each other, yet linked by morbid and violent love experiences, are intertwined in a drama inspired by the collection of short stories by Dacia Maraini published in 2012 by the same title of the film, "Love Stolen "....
Hochzeit in Rom
Character: Gioia D’Arcadia
On business trip in Milan, Bavarian architect Max Hauser falls in love with strong-willed waitress Bianca, who is fired for speaking up to his rude colleagues. When he proposes, she runs, but he traces her to Rome, where he finds she's actually the multi-titled rebellious daughter of impoverished prince and count Vibaldo D'Arcadia and his snobbish silver spoon wife Gioia, who inhabit a stunning but slowly derelict renaissance palace. When Max asks for her hand, she hastily accepts, and after get...
Mom or Dad?
Character: Sonia
A divorced couple fights for the custody of their three children: neither of them wants it. Mom wants to leave them to dad, and vice versa....
Palermo – Milan One Way
Character: Agent Maria Pia Di Meo
A mob accountant accepts to be witness for the prosecution at a trial involving Mafia higher-ups. Seven cops are tasked with escorting him and his family alive from Palermo, Sicily to Milan, in the North – but it won't be easy....
Poliziotti
Character: Valeria
When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital after a fake suicide attempt, the stage is set for disaster....
I'm Back
Character: Katia Bellini
Benito Mussolini resurfaces in Rome 72 years after his death, as if not a single day had passed. Finding a country still full of problems, both old and new, his firebrand rhetoric wins him once again the hearts and minds of millions of Italians — who see him as a wacky reenactor who speaks inconvenient truths to power....
Do You See Me?
Character: Maria
Serena Bruno is an architect who studied and got several masters in different countries of the world but she decides to go back to Italy so she can live and work there. She will soon find out that her native country is not as open minded and she will struggle to find a job that she truly loves and is passionate about. Along the way she will meet Francesco a gay man who will help and support her throughout her journey....
Ombre
Character: Elena
Elena Serpieri is an Italian neurologist who is in the United States, because she obtained a scholarship in a New York hospital. There she works together with the FBI on the profile of a dangerous serial killer....
Diary of a Rapist
Character:
This Italian film takes a chilling, nonexploitative look into the mind of a nice young man who compulsively rapes beautiful women. The rapes are graphically presented and may be disturbing to some viewers. Outwardly Luca seems to be a normal, quiet 20-year old. His mother is frequently gone. Trouble begins when Luca becomes obsessed with Valeria, the beauty who works in the next building. He begins spying on her, and then secretly filming her with his camcorder. He tries to get to know her, but ...
I virtuali
Character: La ragazza
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Edda Ciano e il comunista
Character: Edda Ciano
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Heartless
Character:
After a robbery gone awry, a young man breaks into an apartment and takes a wheelchair bound girl hostage....
Dietro la notte
Character: Marta Colombi
At dawn Marta will have to leave for Dubai carrying with her a large load of diamonds. She would like to share the night with Bruno, her new partner, opposed by her daughter Elena and her sister Giulia. The two lovers should be alone, but their peaceful evening suddenly turns into a nightmare....
Jesus
Character: Mary of Bethany
Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah....
The Man Who Drew God
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The rise and fall of a blind artist who has the extraordinary gift of making true-to-life portraits just by listening to human voices, and of becoming a TV-junk star. A fable on the need to rediscover the miraculous power of dignity in a world where media's noise has solved the problem of man's imperfection simply by removing the problem itself....
Io sono un po' matto... e tu?
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The Candidate
Character: Laura Dedieu
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