# Maria Laura Rocca

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{{short description|Italian actress and writer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox person
| name         = Maria Laura Rocca
| image        = File:Maria Laura Rocca (cropped).png
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| caption      = Rocca in ''[Gold of Rome](/source/Gold_of_Rome)'', (1961) 
| birth_name   = Maria Laura Gayno
| birth_date   = {{Birth date text|5 October 1917}}
| birth_place  = [Pasian di Prato](/source/Pasian_di_Prato), Italy
| death_date   = {{Death date and age text|6 May 1999|5 October 1917}}
| death_place  = [Rome](/source/Rome), Italy
| occupation   = Actress
| spouse       =   
}}
'''Maria Laura Rocca''' (5 October 1917 – 6 May 1999) was an Italian actress and writer.

== Life and career ==
Born '''Maria Laura Gayno''' in [Pasian di Prato](/source/Pasian_di_Prato),  [Udine](/source/Udine),  Rocca spent her adolescence in [Genoa](/source/Genoa), her mother's birthplace.<ref name=att>{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi|title=Le attrici|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=888440214X|pages=311–2}}</ref> After acting in some amateur dramatics, she studied drama under [Teresa Franchini](/source/Teresa_Franchini), with whom she also made her professional debut on stage at 30 years old.<ref name=att /> In films, she was mainly active in supporting roles in adventure and [peplum genres](/source/Peplum_film_genre), sometimes credited as '''Manuela Kent'''.<ref name=att /> She retired from acting in the mid-1960s.<ref name=att /> In 1959, she was the author of the book ''Cina senza muraglia'', and in 1969, she wrote the film ''[Mr. Superinvisible](/source/Mr._Superinvisible)'', being credited as Mary Eller.<ref name=att />

=== Personal life ===
In 1939, Rocca married Giuseppe Bisazza, and they had a son, Oreste.<ref name=att /> In 1948 she remarried to [Communist](/source/Italian_Communist_Party) politician [Umberto Terracini](/source/Umberto_Terracini).<ref name=att />

Rocca died in a clinic in Rome, following a long illness, in 1999, at 81 years old.<ref>[AA.VV.](/source/AA.VV.) ''Territorio, costumi e civiltà contadina a Cartosio''. Impressioni Grafiche, 2010. p. 155. {{ISBN|9788861950498}}.</ref>

== Selected filmography ==
* ''[Attention! Bandits!](/source/Attention!_Bandits!)'' (1951)
* ''[Article 519, Penal Code](/source/Article_519%2C_Penal_Code)'' (1952)
* ''[At the Edge of the City](/source/At_the_Edge_of_the_City)'' (1953)  
* ''[For You I Have Sinned](/source/For_You_I_Have_Sinned)'' (1953)
* ''[Love Song](/source/Love_Song_(1954_film))'' (1954)
* ''[Love in Rome](/source/Love_in_Rome)'' (1960)
* ''[Gold of Rome](/source/Gold_of_Rome)'' (1961) 
* ''[The Fury of Achilles](/source/The_Fury_of_Achilles)'' (1962)
* ''[Imperial Venus](/source/Imperial_Venus_(film))'' (1962)
* ''[The Fall of Rome](/source/The_Fall_of_Rome_(film))'' (1963)
* ''[Secret of the Sphinx](/source/Secret_of_the_Sphinx)'' (1964)
* ''[Messalina vs. the Son of Hercules](/source/Messalina_vs._the_Son_of_Hercules)'' (1964)
* ''[Lo scippo](/source/Lo_scippo)'' (1965)
* ''[Captain from Toledo](/source/Captain_from_Toledo)'' (1965)

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{IMDb name|0448800}}

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Category:1917 births
Category:1999 deaths
Category:Italian film actresses
Category:Italian stage actresses
Category:20th-century Italian actresses
Category:People from the Province of Udine
Category:Actresses from Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Category:20th-century Italian women writers

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