Gaia Germani (born Giovanna Giardina; 30 August 1934 – 20 February 2019) was an Italian film and television actress.

Biography

Born in Rome, Germani made her film debut in a French film,

Georges Lautner Georges Lautner (; 24 January 1926 – 22 November 2013) was a French film director and screenwriter, known primarily for his comedies created in collaboration with screenwriter Michel Audiard. Lautner's ventures into other genres were less ...

's '' En plein cirage'' and later starred both in Italian and in French productions, working with

Sergio Sollima Sergio Sollima (17 April 1921 – 1 July 2015) was an Italian film director and script writer. Biography Sollima graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1935. During World War II he was in the Italian Resistance. After th ...

Bernard Borderie Bernard Borderie (10 June 1924 in Paris – 28 May 1978 in Paris) was a French film director and screenwriter. His father, Raymond Borderie, was one of the producers of ''Children of Paradise, Les Enfants du Paradis'' (''Children of Paradise'', 194 ...

Marco Ferreri Marco Ferreri (11 May 1928 – 9 May 1997) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor, who began his career in the 1950s directing three films in Spain, followed by 24 Italian films before his death in 1997. He is considered one of t ...

, and

Lucio Fulci Lucio Fulci (; 17 June 1927 – 13 March 1996) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. Although he worked in a wide array of genres through a career spanning nearly five decades, including Commedia all'italiana, comedies and spagh ...

. She became popular for starring in the ''

Carosello is an Italian television advertising show that was broadcast on RAI from 1957 to 1977. The series mainly showed short sketch comedy films using live action, various types of animation, and puppetry. It had an audience of about 20 million viewe ...

'' of Amaro Cora. From the early 1970s she focused on TV series, and in 1975 she retired from showbusiness. She died in Rome in 2019.Gaia Germani page
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Hercules in the Haunted World ''Hercules in the Haunted World'' ( Italian: ''Ercole al centro della terra'', lit. "Hercules at the Center of the Earth") is a 1961 Italian sword-and-sandal film directed by Mario Bava. British bodybuilder Reg Park plays Hercules while Briti ...

'' (1961) * ''

Operation Gold Ingot ''Operation Gold Ingot'' (, ) is a 1962 French-Italian heist film directed by Georges Lautner and starring Martine Carol. It is based on a novel by M.G. Braun.Marco Giusti. ''007 all'italiana''. Isbn Edizioni, 2010. . Plot Cast * Martine Car ...

'' (1962) * ''

The Triumph of Robin Hood ''The Triumph of Robin Hood'' () is a 1962 Italian adventure film directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring Don Burnett, Gia Scala and Samson Burke.Kinnard & Crnkovich p.178 The film's sets were designed by the art director Giuseppe Ranieri. It was s ...

'' (1962) * '' The Eye of the Monocle'' (1962) * '' Your Turn, Darling'' (1963) * '' The Reluctant Spy'' (1963) * '' Castle of the Living Dead'' (1964) * '' I complessi'' (1965) * '' Marcia nuziale'' (1965) * '' OSS 77 – Operazione fior di loto'' (1965) * '' Avenger X'' (1967) * '' Devil in the Brain'' (1972)

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* 1942 births 2019 deaths Italian film actresses Actresses from Rome Italian television actresses 20th-century Italian actresses {{Italy-screen-actor-stub