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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 small town near 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== * ''Head of a Tyrant'' (1959) * ''Caltiki – The Immortal Monster'' (1959) * ''The Giant of Marathon'' (1959) * ''Non perdiamo la testa'' (1959) * ''Austerlitz'' (1960) * ''Colossus and the Amazon Queen'' (1960) * ''Revenge of the Barbarians'' (1960) *''Divorce, Italian Style'' (1961) *''I Don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra'' (1962) *''The Captive City'' (1962) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daniela Rocca」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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