She is an Italian writer, playwright and actress, born in Dublin on October 27, 1961 and then moved to Tivoli at age 3. Daughter of art, by writer Carlo Mazzantini and Irish painter Anne Donnelly, graduated in 1982 at the National Academy of Dramatic Art "Silvio D'Amico" in Rome. In 1987 she married actor and director Sergio Castellitto, from whom she had four children. The 1994 literary debut, when with the novel The Basin Zinc, won two prizes, the Rapallo-Carige and the Campiello.



