Vanessa Scalera
Birthday: Born in 1977-04-05 in Latiano, Brindisi, Italy
Deathday: Alive
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).
TV Credits
Romulus
Character: Silvia
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....
Romulus
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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....
Qui non è Hollywood
Character: Cosima Serrano
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
Character: Chiara Todini
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Imma Tataranni - Sostituto procuratore
Character: 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....
Squadra antimafia – Palermo oggi
Character: Francesca Diamante
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....
Movie Credits
The Voyagers
Character:
Time jump to 1939 with teenager Max and his friends as they try to navigate Mussolini's Rome and find Max's missing brother....
Our Tropical Island
Character:
A businessman is leaving for his family vacation in the South Pacific when he finds out that a rival has emptied his bank account. To save face he and his family lock themselves in the house, pretending to have gone on their trip, but it is not so easy to hide from the outside world....
Prima di andar via
Character: Elena
"Tomorrow, I won't be alive anymore," Francesco tersely tells his family, gathered for dinner. He has decided to commit suicide because he can't bear living without his wife, who died three months earlier, and can't imagine the idea of getting used to the pain. After the initial shock, his parents and his sisters try to make him change his mind....
Mia madre
Character: Infermiera
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother....
Pazzo & Bella
Character: Bella
A gangster offers Pazzo and Bella the possibility of getting a huge sum of money to kill a man. Pazzo is on a wheelchair, Bella is an alcoholic and gambling addicted. They have never done anything like this in their lives. But Bella is a dangerous woman and wants to change her life no matter the cost. Pazzo doesn't need anything but Bella in his life. He loves her. And that is a problem....
Autobiografia erotica
Character: Mariella
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....
The seagull - the movie
Character: Irìna Nikolàevna Arkàdina
"Documents of the staging" of the play The seagull at the Orologio Theatre in Rome....
Breath
Character:
A tormented love story set in an unknown time. Every choice the characters make has an influence on the others with a sort of "butterfly effect"....
Ovvi destini
Character: Laura
Three sisters. Laura, the eldest; Lucia, the middle one; Costanza, the younger. Costanza is wheelchair bound because of an accident caused by Laura. Costanza and Lucia are not aware of Laura's responsibility, but a strange being is: Carlo, who starts blackmailing Laura....
Napoli milionaria!
Character: Amalia
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Palazzina LAF
Character: Tiziana Lagioia
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....
Filumena Marturano
Character: 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....
Il nostro messia
Character: Pauline
Five young girls share an apartment in Rome, different precarious conditions and a common desire for actresses....
Il nostro messia
Character: Pauline
Five young girls share an apartment in Rome, different precarious conditions and a common desire for actresses....
Dall'alto di una fredda torre
Character: Elena
Elena and Antonio discover that their parents have a very rare disease. Their only hope for survival is a stem cell donation that must occur in a very short time, and their children are the only suitable candidates for this particular procedure. Elena and Antonio prepare for the operation, but Antonio discovers that he's not a match for the donation, and Elena's stem cells are not enough for both of them: it's not possible to cure both parents....
Lea
Character: Lea Garofalo
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....
Dormant Beauty
Character: Deputato PD
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....
Vincere
Character: Suora Misericordiosa
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....
A Woman's Name
Character: Sonia Talenti
A single mother faces a culture of sexual harassment at her new workplace....
All for a Rose
Character:
Elena has just turned 18 and this is her first day working in a coffee bar in Bobbio, a town in the north of Italy. It's summer and the coffee bar is very busy. The first day at work is a chance for Elena to meet lots of different people. Each person has a different story to tell - not just in words but also through simple gestures and actions. These characters can sometimes be quite odd and reflect the countless nuances of the human soul....
Diabolik
Character: Flora
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......
Stolen Days
Character: Zia Anna
Salvo was five when his father Vincenzo was arrested, practically before his eyes. Seven years later Salvo lives with his uncles and his cousin a controlled and peaceful existence in the Turin area, but his father returns and claims his son for four days. Vincenzo has to carry an important load to Bari and brings Salvo (nomen est omen) with him as insurance: a child is better than a gun, he says, because his presence in the event of a possible police detention can have a distracting effect . Thi...
Run to You
Character: Luciana
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....
A Girl Returned
Character: Mother
A 13 years old girl is forced to go living with another family for reasons unknown....
Diamonds
Character: Bianca Vega / Vanessa
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 abse...