Dajana Roncione

Dajana Roncione is an Italian actress born in Palermo. She started acting in a T. S. Eliot's play directed by Pietro Carriglio "Assassinio nella Cattedrale" at 18 years old at the Teatro stabile Biondo. After that, she decided to move to Rome in order to study at the National Academy of Dramatic Art "Silvio D'Amico", one of the most prestigious acting Academies in Italy, where she graduated in 2007. She had the honor to work with Luca Ronconi, Armando Pugliese, Giancarlo Sepe, Giorgio Albertazzi, Gabriele Lavia, Gabor Stefan, Jhon Axelrod, Katia e Marielle Labeque and also with the very known Italian filmmaker Michele Placido in "Il Grande Sogno" where she plays Isabella. She acted in different television and cinema movies like "L'Ultimo re" directed by Aurelio Grimaldi, "La Croce e La Stella" by Salvatore Lo Piano and for the theatre projects she acted in "Il Sogno del principe di Salina, l'ultimo Gattopardo" directed by Andrea Battistini and Luca Barbareschi, "La rosa tatuata" of Tennesse Williams directed by Francesco Tavassi, The "Misantropo" of Moliere directed by Paolo Zuccari ,"Reason To Be Pretty" of Neil Labute directed by Fabrizio Arcuri, "Il Vero Amico" of Carlo Goldoni directed by Lorenzo Lavia, "Tutto per bene" a Pirandello's play directed by Gabriele Lavia ,"Amadeus" of Peter Shaffer directed by John Axelrod, "Otello" directed by Paolo Zuccari. She was one of the lady lead characters in the episode "Una lama di luce" of Montalbano series directed by Alberto Sironi written by Andrea Camilleri in 2013. Also she took part in many of the mini Rai series as "Il Sogno del Maratoneta " regia di Leone Pompucci (2012), "Edda Ciano e il comunista" Graziano Diana (2011), "Il Nostro Amico Walter Chiari" E. Monteleone (2011),"Ben tornato Nero Wolfe" R. donna (2012), "Il segreto dell'acqua" R. De Maria (2010), "The Mafia Kill Only In Summer", Season Two, directed by Luca Ribuoli. In 2014 she worked with French video artist Natalie Joffre in order to realize a video about Tina Modotti called "At the age of the double" supported by KML foundation. Recently she participated in the Tina Modotti documentary commissioned by History Rai and directed by Federico Cataldi with who she's working for a cinematographic project. Recently she worked for the second time with Michele Placido in Pirandello's play "Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore" where she plays the role of the stepdaughter. Her last works are: "La Concessione del Telefono", written by Andrea Camilleri and directed by Roan Johnson (2020) where she plays the role of "Lillina"; "Anima" by Paul Thomas Anderson (2019), where she's the co-star; "Giorgio Ambrosoli - Il prezzo del coraggio" by Alessandro Celli (as Anna Iori Ambrosoli, co-star, 2019); "Io sono Mia", directed by Riccardo Donna, as the famous singer Loredana Bertè. She has been nominated best up and coming actress with the "Efesto D'Oro" award at the Napoli Cultural Classic.