Franca Gonella

Franca Gonella — Biography

Franca Gonella was an Italian actress, born on 29 February 1952 in Turin, who worked in film, on stage and in television. She studied modern literature and the history of theater and cinema at the University of Turin. She began her career on stage, and during a tour in Sicily she met the director Mariano Laurenti through the actor Pino Ferrara; Laurenti cast her in the film Cerca di capirmi. Within a few years she became a leading figure of the low-budget commedia sexy all'italiana genre.

In the 1970s her credits included Aretino's Stories of the Three Lustful Daughters, La bolognese, and the production released in Turkey as Üç Kağıtçılar. In the 1980s she took on larger film and television roles, working with directors such as Maurizio Scaparro, Aldo Lado and Pierre Kast, and she frequently collaborated with the independent director and producer Amasi Damiani. In 1987 she appeared in Firefighters 2: Heroic Mission. Her active career ran mainly from the 1970s into the mid-1980s. Gonella died in 1995.