Carla Del Poggio

At 15, while she was studying foreign languages and modern dance. She attended the Italian school for performing arts, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome. Director Vittorio De Sica chose her for her debut role in Maddalena, Zero for Conduct (1940). At 19, she met her future husband, the director Alberto Lattuada, 11 years her senior, who chose her for a role in a movie taken from the renowned novel "Gli indifferenti", by Alberto Moravia. The movie was never realized, but they married a few months later, in April, 1945. In the '50s she took part mainly in theatre plays, and afterward some TV fictions. She also founded a co-op with her husband, director Federico Fellini, and his wife Giulietta Masina. Together they realized Fellini's directorial debut, "Luci del varietà" (Variety Lights (1950)).