Claudia Gerini
Claudia Gerini (; born 18 December 1971) is an Italian actress and showgirl. Life and career. Born in Rome, Gerini won the National Competition of Miss Teenager in 1985. She got her first part in a film, "La ballata di Eva", at 14. She subsequently played in "Ciao mà", "Roba da ricchi" and "Night Club", by Sergio Corbucci, and many others. At 19 she worked for the popular TV show "Non è la Rai", a sort of academy with one hundred girls singing, dancing and gaming. Gerini's first major role was in "Il padre e il figlio", directed  by Pasquale Pozzessere. She later moved to Paris to learn French for several months, travelling a lot between Italy and France without leaving off University. At 22 she returned to Italy and got a role as protagonist in "Angelo e Beatrice", a theatrical work by Francesco Apolloni (writer and director) presented on the stage at the Theater Coliseum in Rome, where director and actor Carlo Verdone noticed her. The encounter with Verdone produced "Viaggi di nozze" and "I'm Crazy About Iris Blond", both Christmas box-office successes. Gerini later collaborated with Leonardo Pieraccioni, Massimo Ceccherini, Antonio Rezza and Antonello  De Leo, and moved both to Los Angeles, U.S. and Madrid, Spain to improve her English and Spanish, respectively. In Spain she starred in "Desafinado" by M. G. Pereira and "La playa de Los Galagos" by M. Camus. Other roles include "Francesca e Nunziata", directed by Lina Wertmüller, "Al cuore si comanda", "Non ti muovere", "La sconosciuta" and the recent "Nero bifamiliare", directed by her then-partner, singer-songwriter Federico Zampaglione (Tiromancino).