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Maria Laura Rocca (5 October 1917 – 6 May 1999) was an Italian actress and writer.

Maria Laura Rocca
Rocca in L'oro di Roma, (1961)
Born	Maria Laura Gayno 5 October 1917 (1917-10-05) Pasian di Prato, Italy
Died	6 May 1999 (1999-05-07) (aged 81) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Actress

Life and career

Born Maria Laura Gayno in Pasian di Prato, Udine, Rocca spent her adolescence in Genoa, her mother's birthplace.[1] After acting in some amateur dramatics, she studied drama under Teresa Franchini, with whom she also made her professional debut on stage at 30 years old.[1] In films, she was mainly active in supporting roles in adventure and peplum genres, sometimes credited as Manuela Kent.[1] She retired from acting in the mid-1960s.[1] In 1959, she was the author of the book Cina senza muraglia, and in 1969, she wrote the film Mr. Superinvisible, being credited as Mary Eller.[1]

Personal life

In 1939, Rocca married Giuseppe Bisazza, and they had a son, Oreste.[1] In 1948 she remarried to Communist politician Umberto Terracini.[1]

Rocca died in a clinic in Rome, following a long illness, in 1999, at 81 years old.[2]

Selected filmography

• Attention! Bandits! (1951)
• Article 519, Penal Code (1952)
• At the Edge of the City (1953)
• For You I Have Sinned (1953)
• Love Song (1954)
• Love in Rome (1960)
• L'oro di Roma (1961)
• The Fury of Achilles (1962)
• Imperial Venus (1962)
• The Fall of Rome (1963)
• Secret of the Sphinx (1964)
• Messalina vs. the Son of Hercules (1964)
• Lo scippo (1965)
• Captain from Toledo (1965)

References

External links

• Maria Laura Rocca at IMDb

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