Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta
Bonta (left) with her husband Allen Newcomb in 2008
Bonta (left) with her husband Allen Newcomb in 2008
Born(1953-04-03)3 April 1953
Clarksville, Tennessee, U.S.
Died8 July 2014(2014-07-08) (aged 61) [1]
Occupation
  • Writer
  • actor
  • voice artist
LanguageEnglish, Italian
GenreFiction, poetry, essay, philosophical literature, social commentary, teleplay
Literary movementQuantum fiction
Notable worksFlight: a quantum fiction novel[2]
RelativesLuigi Ugolini (grandfather)

Vanna Marie Bonta (April 3, 1953 – July 8, 2014) was an American writer, actress, and inventor. She was of partial Italian descent. She wrote Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel. As an actress, Bonta played "Zed's Queen" in The Beastmaster. She performed primarily as a voice talent on a roster of feature films, such as Disney's Beauty and the Beast, as well as on television. Bonta invented the 2suit, a flight garment designed to facilitate sex in microgravity environments of outerspace. The spacesuit was featured on The Universe television series, which followed Bonta into zero gravity to film an episode titled Sex in Space that aired in 2009 on the History Channel.[3]

On 13 November 2013, a haiku by Bonta was one of 1,100 haiku launched from Cape Canaveral on the NASA spacecraft MAVEN to Mars.[4]

  1. ^ HEaven Bound: Notice of death of Vanna Bonta; accessed 13 February 2015.
  2. ^ "Fiction review – Flight: a quantum fiction novel, by Vanna Bonta". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on 2019-01-07. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  3. ^ Scaturro, Giorgia (27 April 2009). "Lo spazio, mai stato così sexy". Wired Magazine. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Boulder haiku was invoked but never defined (see the help page).