Alice Pagani (born 19 February 1998) is an Italian actress, model, and author, best known for playing Ludovica Storti in the Netflix series ''

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'', and Stella in the

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film '' Loro''. In 2020, she fronted

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's Together Stronger campaign with

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. In 2021, her first novel, the autobiographical coming-of-age story ''Ophelia'', was published by

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Personal life

Pagani is from Piattoni, a town in the

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. Her parents were factory workers, and are divorced. As a child, she was hospitalized for

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, and temporarily used a wheelchair due to immobility. She became interested in modeling after taking pictures of her freckles with a camera that her father gave her to pass the time while recovering. Pagani also posed for photographers after being approached in public. Pagani has

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. From 2018 to 2021, she was in a relationship with rapper

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, a member of

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. The two also bought a house in

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. In 2021, she appeared on the cover of the Italian edition of '' Vanity Fair'' to help express support for the banning of discrimination and hate crimes against women, gay and transgender people. She graduated from the

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with an Advanced Diploma in Acting in 2023.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

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* 1998 births Living people Actors with dyslexia Models with dyslexia Italian people with disabilities Actresses from Rome Writers with dyslexia Italian film actresses Italian television actresses 21st-century Italian actresses People from Ascoli Piceno Actresses from le Marche {{Italy-screen-actor-stub