Donatella Finocchiaro

Donatella Finocchiaro
Donatella Finocchiaro
	Finocchiaro at the 2021 Bari International Film Festival
Born	16 November 1970 (age 55); Catania, Italy
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2002–present

Born16 November 1970 (age 55)

OccupationActress

Yearsactive2002–present

Donatella Finocchiaro (born 16 November 1970) is an Italian actress. She has appeared in more than 60 films since 2002. She starred in The Wedding Director, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes
2002	Angela	Angela
2003	Lost Love	Mary
2003	On My Skin	Bianca
2004	Se devo essere sincera	Gina
2005	Amatemi	Giulia
2006	Secret Journey	Anna Olivieri
	Sorelle	Sara
	Don't Make Any Plans for Tonight	Paola
	The Wedding Director	Bona di Gravina
	Ice on Fire	Caterina
2007	L'abbuffata	Enza
2007	The Sweet and the Bitter	Ada
2008	Amore che vieni, amore che vai	Veretta
2008	The Brave Men	Lucia Rizzo
2009	Baarìa	Haberdasher	Cameo appearance
2010	Sorelle mai	Sara
2010	Lost Kisses	Rita
2011	The Ages of Love	Eliana/Gaia
	Make a Fake	Aurora
	Terraferma	Giulietta
2012	To Rome with Love	Journalist	Cameo appearance
	I Don't Know Yet	Giulia
	Sulla strada di casa	Laura
2013	Marina	Ida
2014	War Story	Daria
2014	Mio papà	Claudia
2016	Solo	Evelina
2017	Friends by Chance	Claudia
	Nato a Casal di Principe	Teresa
	Tulipani, Love, Honour and a Bicycle	Chiara
	Couch Potatoes	President Barenghi
2018	Youtopia	Laura
	Beate	Armida
	Capri-Revolution	Mother
2019	La fuga	Giulia
2019	Nonostante la nebbia	Valeria
2020	Il delitto Mattarella	Irma Mattarella
2020	The Macaluso Sisters	Adult Pinuccia
2021	Caught by a Wave	Susanna
	Upside Down	Veronica
	Bentornato papà	Anna
2022	Strangeness	Maria Antonietta

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes
2008	Aldo Moro – Il presidente	Adriana Faranda	Two-parts television film
2008	Donne assassine	Marta	Episode: "Veronica"
2010	Crimini	Mariangela	Episode: "Niente di personale"
2011	Questi fantasmi	Maria Lojacono	Television film
2013	Il bambino cattivo	Flora	Television film
2014	Purché finisca bene	Marisa Collodi	Episode: "Una villa per due"
2018	Trust	Regina	3 episodes
2019	L'Aquila – Grandi speranze	Silvia Merli	Lead role
2020	Io, una giudice popolare al Maxiprocesso	Caterina Parisi	Television film
2022–2023	Monterossi	Lucia	Main role
2023	The Lions of Sicily	Giuseppina Saffiotti	Main role

v t e Tokyo International Film Festival – Best Actress
1980s	Rachel Ward (1987) Elena Yakovleva (1989)
1990s	Zhao Lirong (1991) Lumi Cavazos (1992) Lü Liping (1993) Debra Winger (1994) Yasuko Tomita (1995) Hildegunn Riise (1996) Rene Liu / Tseng Jing (1997) Maki Miyamoto (1998) María Galiana (1999)
2000s	Jennifer Jason Leigh (2000) Luiza Xhuvani (2001) Donatella Finocchiaro (2002) Shinobu Terajima / Khristy Jean Hulslander (2003) Mirella Pascual (2004) Helena Bonham Carter / Jin Yaqin (2005) Abigail Breslin (2006) Shefali Shah (2007) Félicité Wouassi (2008) Julie Gayet (2009)
2010s	Fan Bingbing (2010) Glenn Close (2011) Neslihan Atagül (2012) Eugene Domingo (2013) Rie Miyazawa (2014) Glória Pires (2015) Lene Cecilia Sparrok (2016) Adeline D'Hermy (2017) Pina Turco (2018) Nadia Tereszkiewicz (2019) No Award (2020)
2020s	Julia Chávez (2021) Aline Küppenheim (2022) Zar Amir Ebrahimi (2023) Anamaria Vartolomei (2024) Momoko Fukuchi / Naomi Kawase (2025)

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Donatella Finocchiaro
Finocchiaro at the 2021 Bari International Film Festival
Born	(1970-11-16) 16 November 1970 (age 55) Catania, Italy
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2002–present