Born in Rome to an Abruzzese father and a Sardinian mother, she trained at the Actors Studio in New York and took further courses in Rome, supporting herself as a cleaner and set preparer. She first appeared as a teenager on Gianni Boncompagni’s variety shows Non è la RAI and Macao, also doing impersonations, before her film debut in Francesco Maselli’s Il compagno (1999). She earned David di Dona…