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Francesca Marciano

Writer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn July 17, 1955 (69 years)
Francesca Marciano (Rome, July 17, 1955) is an Italian writer, screenwriter and actress.

With Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato, a film directed by Carlo Verdone, she won a David di Donatello for best screenplay in 1992.

In New York she met Stefania Casini with whom she wrote the screenplay for her first film, which would become the film Lontano da dove produced by Gaumont Italia, which she directed with Casini. The film went into competition in Venice in 1983, achieving a fair amount of success. Returning to Italy that year, she directs an episode of the collective film Provvisorio quasi d'amore born of a collaboration with filmmakers from the Indigena group, including Silvio Soldini, Paolo Rosa, Enrico Ghezzi, Giancarlo Soldi and Daniele Segre. After this second experience as a director, however, she realized that her path was writing, and from this time on she worked exclusively as a screenwriter.

At the end of the 1980s, after writing Turné for the direction of Gabriele Salvatores, and after collaborating with Carlo Verdone on three films, she moved permanently to Kenya. In the years that followed he traveled to Ghana, Benin, Togo, Somalia, Sudan, and Tanzania, making numerous reportages for RAI.

He wrote his first novel, in English, Rules of the Wild, set in Kenya, which was purchased by Pantheon publishing house, published in New York in 1998 and later translated into seventeen countries. Mondadori published it under the title Uncovered Sky. It was followed by two more novels Red House and The End of Manners, later also published in Italy by Longanesi and translated into more than ten languages.

With the novel Red House she won the Rapallo Carige Prize for Women Writers in 2003. Her book The Other Language came out in the United States in 2014 with Pantheon, and in 2015 in Italy with Bompiani, Isola grande Isola piccola.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Escobar: Paradise Lost
  • Euphoria

Known For

  • Escobar: Paradise Lost
  • I'm Not Scared
  • Me and You
  • The House with Laughing Windows
  • A Five Star Life
  • Vanished Into the Night
  • Honey
  • I'm Crazy About Iris Blond
  • Euphoria
  • Don't Tell
  • A Brighter Tomorrow
  • Perdiamoci di vista
  • Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato
  • Me, Them and Lara
  • Me, Myself & Her
  • Love Is Eternal While It Lasts
  • On Tour
  • The Miracle (2018)
  • The Art of Joy
  • Tutti defunti... tranne i morti
  • Raise Your Head
  • Pericle
  • You Came Back
  • School Is Over

Filmography

2024
2024
The Art of Joy (TV Series)
2023
A Brighter Tomorrow · as Screenplay
2020
You Came Back · as Screenplay
2016
Pericle · as Screenplay
2015
Me, Myself & Her · as Screenplay
2013
Honey · as Screenplay
2013
2012
Me and You · as Screenplay
2010
School Is Over · as Screenplay
2009
2009
Raise Your Head · as Screenplay
2005
2003
I'm Not Scared · as Screenplay
1996
Ritorno a casa Gori · as Screenplay
1992

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