Lorella De Luca | |
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 De Luca in the movie Il bidone (1955) | |
| Born | 17 September 1940 Florence, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 9 January 2014 (aged 73) Civitavecchia, Rome, Italy |
| Other names | Hally Hammond |
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| Years active | 1955–1984 |
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| Children | Federica Tessari Fiorenza Tessari |
Lorella De Luca (17 September 1940 – 9 January 2014) was an Italian film, television, and voice actress. One of the most recognized ingénues of Italian cinema during the mid-to-late 1950s, she is best known for having played naive young girls in dramas and comedies.
She was born in Florence, Italy, and, following her "discovery" at age 14, made her acting debut in the Federico Fellini film Il bidone (1955). De Luca's breakout role, however, came a year later following her performance in Dino Risi's comedy 'Poor, But Handsome (1956) and continued on in the genre, with appearances in Mario Monicelli films Fathers and Sons (1957) and Doctor and the Healer (1957), as well as in Duccio Tessari's spaghetti Westerns A Pistol for Ringo (1965) and its sequel The Return of Ringo (1965) with Giuliano Gemma.