JULY 22

Biography

Emanuela Fanelli was born in Rome; in her teen years, she began her career in theatre. Her debut in cinema was in 2015 with Non essere cattivo (Don't be bad) by Claudio Caligari; she then went on to star in films by Massimiliano Bruno, Laura Morante, Augusto Fornari and Claudio Bonivento. In 2016, she starred in the TV series Dov'è Mario? (Where’s Mario?) with Corrado Guzzanti. Since 2016, she has been playing various characters for the Rai Radio 2 show 610 by Lillo & Greg. As for TV, she participated with two monologues in Serena Dandini’s shows La tv delle ragazze - Gli Stati Generali (Girls’ TV - States-General) in 2018 and Stati Generali in 2020 (Rai 3). In 2019, she was among the protagonists of Giovanni Benincasa’s TV show Battute? (Jokes?), aired on Rai 2; after that, between 2020 and 2021, she worked as host, actress and author for the TV show Una pezza di Lundini (literally, A patch by Lundini) with Benincasa and Valerio Lundini. At the end of 2019, she appeared in the video clip of the song Immigrato (Inmigrant), written by Checco Zalone for the release of his film Tolo Tolo. She took part in the Sanremo Music Festival 2021 as a guest during the third night, which was dedicated to covers. 

She received a number of awards, including a special mention for best actress and best monologue at the Ciak, si Roma! Festival (Carlo Verdone, Daniele Luchetti and Lina Wertmüller were members of the jury) and the Best Actress award at the 48h Film Project for her role in the short film Un film d'amore (A love film).

She is one of the lead actors in Paolo Virzì’s new feature film Siccità (Drought), soon to be released, produced by Wildside and Vision Distribution.