Marina Suma

{{Short description|Italian actress}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Marina Suma | image = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1959|11|14}} | birth_place = Naples, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Actress }} '''Marina Suma''' (born 14 November 1959) is an Italian actress.

== Life and career == Born in Naples, Suma started her career as a glamour model,<ref>{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi|title=Le attrici: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|publisher=Gremese, 2003}}</ref> and made her film debut in Salvatore Piscicelli's ''Le occasioni di Rosa''. For her performance in this film, she won a David di Donatello for best new actress.<ref>{{cite book|title=Annuario del cinema italiano & audiovisivi|publisher=Centro di studi di cultura, promozione e difusione del cinema, 2011}}</ref> Later, she starred in Carlo Vanzina's ''Sapore di mare'' and in a number of successful comedy films. From the 1990s, she focused her activities on television.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gianni Canova|title=Enciclopedia del cinema|publisher=Garzanti, 2005}}</ref>

== Selected filmography ==

* ''The Opportunities of Rosa'' (1981) * ''Time for Loving'' (1982) * ''Sing Sing'' (1983) * ''A Boy and a Girl'' (1983) * ''Cuori nella tormenta'' (1984) * ''Blues metropolitano'' (1985) * ''Shatterer'' (1987) * ''Sweets from a Stranger'' (1987) * ''Dark Bar'' (1989) * ''Disperatamente Giulia'' (1989) * ''Infelici e contenti'' (1992) * ''Pater Familias'' (2003) * ''Mozzarella Stories'' (2011)

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== External links == * {{IMDb name|0838509}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suma, Marina}} Category:Living people Category:Italian film actresses Category:1959 births Category:Actresses from Naples Category:David di Donatello winners Category:Italian television actresses Category:Italian stage actresses Category:Italian female models Category:Models from Naples