Francesca Fanti

Francesca Fanti was chosen by Francis Ford Coppola to play the leading role of Filomena Corrado in Distant Vision 2016 a live cinema experimental production directed by Coppola as a monthlong project at UCLA Francesca presented the bold onewoman comedy show Orgasmo Adulto Escapes From the Zoo written by Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo and Franca Rame and won the ADA Artistic Director Achievement Award for Best Actress in a Comedy in Los Angeles first then The Bay Area Critics Award for Best Solo Performance in San Francisco where the show was critically acclaimed sold out and extended for months In Italy Francesca worked with American character actor Vincent Schiavelli presenting the show Ccera Na Vota in Sicilian dialect not her own to audiences in Sicily She also starred in the very popular Italian TV show La Squadra and worked with director Carlo Carlei on the TV movie Ferrari Milestone Italian writer Dacia Maraini invited Francesca to perform her work in Italy after seeing Francescas sterling performance of the drama onewoman show Letters of Love in Los Angeles Francesca later on brought Marainis controversial play Dialogue Between a Prostitute and Her Client to critically acclaimed performances in Pasadena and she has written a film adaptation of this play She is also developing two other projects Dating Valentina a comedy about divorce single parenting and online dating debut and Missing Michael H a drama based on the true story of a friend who recently went missing She can be seen in the FX TV show American Crime Story The Assassination of Gianni Versace episode 8 in the role of Franca Versace mom of Gianni Also in Bryan Singers critically acclaimed digital web series H 20122013 in the leading role of Simona Rossi and in Nine 2009 opposite Daniel Day Lewis A versatile actor Fanti has provided voice work for many projects including Madagascar 3 Europes Most Wanted 2012 and has appeared in numerous national commercials with such celebrities as Herb Ritts Elizabeth Taylor Madonna and Bob Richardson