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crime and biographical miniseries. Her other film credits include romantic comedy '' Letters to Juliet'' (2011), drama '' Fasten Your Seatbelts'' (2014), biographical drama '' The Music of Silence'' (2017), thriller '' Naples in Veils'' (2017), drama ''

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'' (2021), romantic drama '' Nuovo Olimpo'' (2023), and dramas ''

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'' and '' Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness'' (both 2024).

''Callas e Onassis''

Ranieri is best known for her television movie portrayal of the opera diva

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in the 2005 Italian television film ''Callas e Onassis'', which began her acting career. Though a number of fiction and nonfiction movies, and documentaries, have been done on the late shipping magnate billionaire

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, and of Callas, the TV movie ''Callas e Onassis'' is the only television or movie depiction ever made exclusively devoted to the public and private deep emotional relationship and close friendship between Onassis and Callas.

Other appearances

Ranieri had a noteworthy acting performance in the 2010 drama film '' Letters to Juliet'' as one of Juliet's secretaries, who is the closest to Sophie, played by

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. She also played the role of Assunta Goretti, the mother of Maria Goretti, in the 2003 film '' Maria Goretti'', an Italian television movie based on real-life events of the Catholic virgin-martyr and saint, Maria Goretti. In 2014, Ranieri hosted the opening and closing nights of the 71st Venice International Film Festival in

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, Italy.

Filmography

Films

Television

Awards and nominations

References

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* 1973 births Living people Italian television actresses Actresses from Naples Italian film actresses 21st-century Italian actresses Italian television presenters Italian women television presenters Mass media people from Naples {{Italy-screen-actor-stub