Biography
Vanessa Scalera (born 5 April 1977) is an Italian actress. She was born in Latiano, Apulia and later moved to Rome, where she graduated from the theatre school La Scaletta. She gained national stardom for portraying the role of Imma Tataranni in the tv series Imma Tataranni - Deputy Prosecutor, for which she won a Flaiano Prize in 2020. Other notable film credits have included Lea (2015), Diabolik (2021) and L'Arminuta (2021).
Known For
Complete Filmography

Diamonds
2024
as Bianca Vega / Vanessa
A film director gathers his favorite actresses, those he worked with and those he loved. He wants to make a film about women but he doesn’t reveal muc...

Dall'alto di una fredda torre
2024
as Elena
Elena and Antonio discover that their parents have a very rare disease. Their only hope for survival is a stem cell donation that must occur in a very...

Napoli milionaria!
2023
as Amalia

Palazzina LAF
2023
as Tiziana Lagioia
Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get ri...

Filumena Marturano
2022
as Filumena Marturano
Filumena has lived for years with a wealthy pastry chef. She forces him to marry her, but he soon asks to annul the marriage. She then reveals that on...

The Voyagers
2022
Time jump to 1939 with teenager Max and his friends as they try to navigate Mussolini's Rome and find Max's missing brother.
Briciole
2022
Alfredo is a policeman, he lives with his three sons and his wife Donatella in a small apartment. The family is waiting for the fourth son. The job, t...

Run to You
2022
as Luciana
Gianni is a serial seducer but his life is destined to change when he meets Chiara, a beautiful woman who has had an accident and is paraplegic.

The seagull - the movie
2022
as Irìna Nikolàevna Arkàdina
"Documents of the staging" of the play The seagull at the Orologio Theatre in Rome.

Diabolik
2021
as Flora
1960s, the city of Clerville. The forthcoming visit of heiress Eva Kant, who'll be bringing a famous pink diamond with her, catches the attention of D...

A Girl Returned
2021
as Mother
A 13 years old girl is forced to go living with another family for reasons unknown.
Il Ritratto
2020
as Claudia
Claudia works in the police as a forensic sketch artist. Her job is to give shape to people's identity. When Arianna, a young girl victim of attempted...

Stolen Days
2019
as Zia Anna
Salvo was five when his father Vincenzo was arrested, practically before his eyes. Seven years later Salvo lives with his uncles and his cousin a cont...

Ovvi destini
2019
as Laura
Three sisters. Laura, the eldest; Lucia, the middle one; Costanza, the younger. Costanza is wheelchair bound because of an accident caused by Laura. C...

Autobiografia erotica
2018
as Mariella
Aristide and Mariella see each other again after 20 years in an apartment in Rome. They're not friends, rather two strangers that met once for a few h...

A Woman's Name
2018
as Sonia Talenti
A single mother faces a culture of sexual harassment at her new workplace.

All for a Rose
2017
Elena has just turned 18 and this is her first day working in a coffee bar in Bobbio, a town in the north of Italy. It's summer and the coffee bar is ...

Pazzo & Bella
2017
as Bella
A gangster offers Pazzo and Bella the possibility of getting a huge sum of money to kill a man. Pazzo is on a wheelchair, Bella is an alcoholic and ga...
L'ora accanto
2016
The play wants to explore afterlife, death re-emerging into life even just for an hour in a whirlwind of powerful emotions ranging from disbelief to j...

Lea
2015
as Lea Garofalo
Lea grew up in a crime family in Calabria. The father of her daughter Denise is also a member of the Mafia. Lea, however, wants a different life for h...

Mia madre
2015
as Infermiera
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.

Prima di andar via
2014
as Elena
"Tomorrow, I won't be alive anymore," Francesco tersely tells his family, gathered for dinner. He has decided to commit suicide because he can't bear ...
Good With People
2014
as Helen
Evan returns to Helensburgh, West Scotland, home to the nation's nuclear defense program and once a thriving holiday resort. A place he's been trying ...
A porte chiuse
2014
as Estella
Three murderers. A journalist, a postal employee, a rich young lady. They're dead, but they prefer to call themselves "absent". One forgets they're st...
Isaac
2013
as Babysitter
A child is in the park playing with his plasticine figures, that he modeled himself. His favorite character is Isaac. Isaac is a little boy just like ...

Breath
2013
A tormented love story set in an unknown time. Every choice the characters make has an influence on the others with a sort of "butterfly effect".

Dormant Beauty
2012
as Deputato PD
A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a ...
L'uomo dei sogni
2010
Silvia is a 35-year-old taxi driver from Rome. She's an energetic, witty and indipendent woman but she still hasn't found her soulmate: any man she me...
Interferenze
2009

Vincere
2009
as Suora Misericordiosa
The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to the fascist ...
Three sisters
2009
The play rotates around three sisters, whose father was a general who died the previous year. They can't wait to move to Moscow, leaving behind the me...

Il nostro messia
2008
as Pauline
Five young girls share an apartment in Rome, different precarious conditions and a common desire for actresses.

Il nostro messia
2008
as Pauline
Five young girls share an apartment in Rome, different precarious conditions and a common desire for actresses.

Our Tropical Island
2001
A businessman is leaving for his family vacation in the South Pacific when he finds out that a rival has emptied his bank account. To save face he and...
Sarah
N/A
as Ester
A man writes the memoir of his life with niece Sarah during the war.