Donatella Damiani (born Donatella Casula on 3 June 1958) is an Italian actress and model. She is best known for her role in the 1980
Federico Fellini
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film ''
The City of Women
''City of Women'' () is a 1980 fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, who co-wrote it with Bernardino Zapponi and Brunello Rondi. Amid Fellini's characteristic combination of dreamlike, outrageous, and artistic imagery, Marcell ...
'', in which she played a woman who is sweet, protective, seductive and by her own admission, "full of contradictions." Damiani quickly rose to fame as an Italian
sex symbol
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in the 1980s, featuring in pictorials such as the June 1980 edition of ''
Playboy
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'' and the March 1985 edition of ''
Playmen
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The magazine was published monthly and featured photographs of nude ...
''.
Filmography
* ''
How to Seduce Your Teacher
''How to Seduce Your Teacher'' () is a 1979 commedia sexy all'italiana directed by Mariano Laurenti. It is the third instalment in the "Liceale" film series and was followed by '' La liceale, il diavolo e l'acquasanta''. Gloria Guida, who plays th ...
'' (''La liceale seduce i professori'') - 1979
* ''
The City of Women
''City of Women'' () is a 1980 fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, who co-wrote it with Bernardino Zapponi and Brunello Rondi. Amid Fellini's characteristic combination of dreamlike, outrageous, and artistic imagery, Marcell ...
'' (''La città delle donne'') - 1980
* ''
I Don't Understand You Anymore'' (''Non ti conosco più amore'') - 1980
* ''
I carabbinieri
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'' - 1981
* ''
Honey
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'' (''Miele di donna'') - 1981
* ''
Vigili e vigilesse'' - 1982
* ''
Grog
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Origin and history Popularization of rum and invention of grog
Following Invasion of Jamaica, England's conquest of Jamaica in 1655, rum gradually replaced beer and brandy as the drink ...
'' - 1982
* ''
Hanna D. - The Girl from Vondel Park
''Hanna D. - The Girl from Vondel Park'' ( ), is a 1984 erotic drama film directed by Rino Di Silvestro. Bruno Mattei completed the film.
Plot
Hanna is a poor girl abandoned to herself and forced to prostitute on the streets to obtain her drug f ...
'' (''Hanna D. - La ragazza del Vondel Park'') - 1984
* ''
Lola's Secret'' (''Il peccato di Lola'') - 1985
References
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Publicityon IMDb
1958 births
Living people
Italian film actresses
Actresses from Naples
20th-century Italian actresses
Italian female models
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