Daniela Rocca

Daniela Rocca
Born	12 September 1937(1937-09-12) Acireale, Italy
Died	28 May 1995(1995-05-28) (aged 57) Milo, Italy)
Years active	1955-1970

Daniela Rocca (12 September 1937 in Acireale, Italy – 28 May 1995 in Milo, Italy) was an Italian model and actress.

Rocca was born and raised in Acireale, a poor neighborhood in Catania. She became Miss Catania in 1953, and was discovered by talent scouts after competing in a Miss Italy competition. She made her film debut in French director Maurice Cloche's Marchands de Filles (1957) and also appeared in the Riccardo Freda film Caltiki - il mostro immortale (1959), and Esther and the King (1960). More film roles followed, but Rocca did not find fame until Divorzio all'Italiana (1961). Rocca became a star after playing the part of the smothering wife Marcello Mastroianni is desperate to escape in Pietro Germi's international box-office hit. Rocca fell in love with Germi during filming and attempted suicide when he rejected her. After that, she was considered unstable and was not offered significant roles. A nervous breakdown led to a stay in a mental hospital. After playing minor roles in movies and television, her show business career ended in 1967. She ended her days in a retirement home in Milo, near Catania. There she wrote four books: Agente segreto con licenza di vivere; Avvocato offresi; Il condannato a morte; and Psicoanalisi, sogni, fantasie nascosti nella mente; and a collection of poems, Ara.

Selected filmography

• Austerlitz (1960)
• Revenge of the Barbarians (1960)
• I Don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra (1962)

External links

• Daniela Rocca at the Internet Movie Database
• Obituary: Daniela Rocca, by Peter Achtner. The Independent (London) 2 June 1995

Persondata
Name	Rocca, Daniela
Alternative names
Short description	Actor
Date of birth	1937-09-12
Place of birth	Acireale, Italy
Date of death	1995-05-28
Place of death	Milo, Sicily)