Biography
Julia Anne Bovasso (August 1, 1930 – September 14, 1991) was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. Bovasso was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of this borough, the daughter of Angela Mary (née Padovani) and Bernard Michael Bovasso, a teamster. She was Albanian-Italian-American. She attended The High School of Music & Art in Manhattan. Bovasso appeared in numerous films, including Saturday Night Fever (1977) as Florence Manero, the mother o...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
2006
as Self (archival footage)
Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families, ...
Article 99
1992
as Amelia Sturdeyvant
Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliv...
My Blue Heaven
1990
as Vinnie's Mother
FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is s...
Betsy's Wedding
1990
as Grandma
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but B...
Hot Paint
1988
Two losers rob a rich guy and discover that, among the loot, they've taken a rare painting worth $2.8 million. John Larroquette plays his usual rude, ...
Moonstruck
1987
as Rita Cappomaggi
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, ev...
Moonstruck
1987
Dialogue Coach
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, ev...
Wise Guys
1986
as Lil Dickstein
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to A...
Off Beat
1986
as Mrs. Wareham
Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance perform...
A Time to Triumph
1986
Construction worker, Chuck Hassan, has a heart attack and is no longer able to work and support his family. After losing their home and savings, his w...
Doubletake
1985
as Lou DiMona
Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives investiga...
Daniel
1983
as Frieda Stein
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New...
Staying Alive
1983
as Mrs. Manero
It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a d...
The Verdict
1982
as Maureen Rooney
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a m...
The Gentleman Bandit
1981
as Doris
Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
Willie & Phil
1980
as Mrs. D'Amico
Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — become friends after a thought-provoking screening of ...
King Crab
1980
as Mrs. Campana
Two brothers take over the family seafood business, and battle each other for control of the company - and their father's attention.
The Last Tenant
1978
as Marie
Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which particula...
Just Me and You
1978
as Waitress
A salesman travels cross country with a quirky New Yorker.
Saturday Night Fever
1977
as Flo
Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and th...
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
1970
as Ramona
The story of three wildly neurotic characters: a facially disfigured girl, a homosexual paraplegic, and an introvert epileptic who, after leaving the ...
The Sin of Jesus
1961
An egg-sorting woman shrugs off even the appearance of Christ. From Isaak Babel story.
The Iceman Cometh
1960
as Pearl
Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this ...