Stefania Rocca
60 movies · 15 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 24, 1971 (age 55)
- Place of birth
- Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Biography
Stefania Rocca was born on April 24, 1971 in Turin. She is best known for her roles in the films Nirvana (1997), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Dracula (2002). Rocca also was the lead in Dario Argento's The Card Player. Among her most recent appearances, she was in Alessandro D'Alatri's comedy film Commediasexi where she played the main character, Pia Roncaldi. She starred as Hannah in the 1997 film Solomon.
Rocca was born on 24 April 1971 in Turin, the daughter of a Fiat chief of security and a stylist. Beginning in her adolescence Rocca studied piano, singing, and dancing at the Teatro Stabile di Torino. In the late 1980s she moved to Milan where she started working as a model; in Milan, she enrolled in a series of acting courses. In 1993, thanks to a scholarship, she joined the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. She also studied at the Actors Studio in New York City.
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Rocca is married to her long-time partner Carlo Capasa, whom she wed in a highly secretive ceremony in 2013. The couple has been together since 2005, and has two sons.
Rocca made her acting debut with a secondary role in Giulio Base's Policemen but her breakout role was the blue-haired Naima in the Gabriele Salvatores' cyberpunk film Nirvana (1997). After enrolling a course at the Actors Studio in New York, in 1998, Rocca had her first main role in the controversial erotic thriller Viol@, and for her performance she was nominated to the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress. One year later, Rocca appeared in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley as Jude Law's lover, then she appeared in other international productions, including Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost, Mike Figgis' experimental Hotel and Tom Tykwer's Heaven.
In 2003, Rocca had her main commercial success in Italy, with Alessandro D'Alatri's comedy Casomai, which also gave her a nomination for Best Actress at the Nastro d'Argento and David di Donatello Awards. In 2005, she played a blind lesbian in the Academy Award-nominated drama The Beast in the Heart, and for her performance, she was nominated for the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress. Since the mid-2000s, Rocca has mainly appeared on television. She is also active on stage.
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Stefania Rocca: movies and TV shows
Acting (74)
- 2025 Paper Heart
as Maestra Paola
- 2024
- 2023 The Man Who Drew God
as Pola
- 2023 La primavera della mia vita
as Manager
- 2021 Dietro la notte
as Marta Colombi
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018 I'm Back
as Katia Bellini
- 2017 Hochzeit in Rom
as Gioia D’Arcadia
- 2017
- 2017 Mom or Dad?
as Sonia
- 2016 L'amore rubato
as Marina
- 2016 Non si ruba a casa dei ladri
as Daniela Russo
- 2016
- 2016 Abbraccialo per me
as Caterina
- 2014 Do You See Me?
as Maria
- 2014 A Fairy Tale Wedding
as Luciana
- 2014 Gli anni spezzati
as Grazia Sossi
- 2013 Il terzo tempo
as Teresa
- 2013
- 2013
- 2013
- 2012 Little Lady
as Malvina Farelli
- 2012
- 2011
- 2011 The Invader
as Agnès de Yael
- 2011 Love Hurts
as Germana
- 2011 Edda Ciano e il comunista
as Edda Ciano
- 2010 A Woman
as Natalie
- 2008
- 2008 Go Go Tales
as Debby
- 2007 Voce del verbo amore
as Francesca
- 2007 The Candidate
as Laura Dedieu
- 2006 Commediasexi
as Pia
- 2006
- 2006 La cura del gorilla
as Vera
- 2006 Don't Tell
as Emilia
- 2005 Mary
as Brenda Sax
- 2005
- 2005 D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
as Anne D'Autriche
- 2004 Operation Valkyrie
as Margarethe v. Oven
- 2004 L'amore è eterno finché dura
as Carlotta
- 2004 The Card Player
as Anna Mari
- 2003 Kiss Me First
as Adele
- 2003 Five Moons Plaza
as Fernanda
- 2003 Life as It Is
as Giorgia
- 2002 Dracula
as Mina
- 2002
- 2002 Casomai
as Stefania
- 2002 Heaven
as Regina
- 2001 Resurrection
as Katiuscia Maslova
- 2001 Hotel
as Sophie
- 2000 Rosa and Cornelia
as Rosa
- 2000 Love's Labour's Lost
as Jacquanetta
- 1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley
as Silvana
- 1999 Jesus
as Mary of Bethany
- 1999
- 1999 In principio erano le mutande
as Teresa
- 1998 Inside/Out
as Grace Patterson
- 1998 Viol@
as Marta / Viola
- 1998 Amiche davvero!!
as claudia
- 1998 Voglio una donnaaa!
as Marta
- 1998 Giochi d'equilibrio
as Francesca
- 1997 Solomon
as Anna
- 1997 L'amico di Wang
as Simonetta
- 1997 Nirvana
as Naima
- 1996 I virtuali
as La ragazza
- 1996 Running Against
as Chiara
- 1996 Palermo - Milan One Way
as Maria Pia Di Meo
- 1995
- 1995
- 1995
- 1995 Poliziotti
as Valeria
- 1994
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