Stefania Rocca

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 Argentos The Card Player Among her most recent appearances she was in Alessandro DAlatris 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 longtime 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 Bases Policemen but her breakout role was the bluehaired 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 dArgento for Best Actress One year later Rocca appeared in Anthony Minghellas The Talented Mr Ripley as Jude Laws lover then she appeared in other international productions including Kenneth Branaghs Loves Labours Lost Mike Figgis experimental Hotel and Tom Tykwers Heaven In 2003 Rocca had her main commercial success in Italy with Alessandro DAlatris comedy Casomai which also gave her a nomination for Best Actress at the Nastro dArgento and David di Donatello Awards In 2005 she played a blind lesbian in the Academy Awardnominated drama The Beast in the Heart and for her performance she was nominated for the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress Since the mid2000s Rocca has mainly appeared on television She is also active on stage