Award winning actress Francesca Fanti presented the bold one-woman comedy show "Orgasmo Adulto Escapes From the Zoo," (written by Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo and Franca Rame) with which she won the ADA Artistic Director Achievement Award for Best Actress in Comedy in Los Angeles and The Bay Area Critics Award for Best Solo Performance in San Francisco where the show was critically acclaimed, sold out and extended for months.
Francesca was chosen by Francis Ford Coppola to play the leading role of Filomena Corrado in Distant Vision, a live cinema experimental production (and possible future full-length feature film) directed by Coppola as a month-long project at UCLA.
She can be seen in the FX TV show "American Crime Story - The Assassination of Gianni Versace" (episode #8) in the role of Franca Versace, mom of Gianni. Also in Bryan Singer's critically acclaimed digital web series "H+" in the leading role of Simona Rossi and in Nine opposite Daniel Day Lewis.
A versatile actor, Fanti has provided voice work for many projects including "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted" (2012), the Oscar nominated Disney-Pixar success Luca (2021) and the Oscar winning Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio (2022).
Milestone Italian writer Dacia Maraini invited Francesca to perform her work in Italy after seeing Francesca's sterling performance of Maraini's drama one-woman show "Letters of Love" at the Italian Institute of Culture in Los Angeles. Francesca later on brought Maraini's controversial play "Dialogue Between a Prostitute and Her Client" to critically acclaimed performances in Pasadena and she has written a film adaptation of this play.
She is also developing two other projects: "Dating Valentina" (a comedy about divorce, single parenting and online dating debut) and "Missing Milo H." (a drama inspired by the true story of a friend who recently went missing.
In Italy, Francesca also worked with American character actor Vincent Schiavelli, presenting the show "Cc'era 'Na Vota" in Sicilian dialect (not her own) to audiences in Sicily. She also starred in the very popular Italian TV show "La Squadra" and worked with director Carlo Carlei on the TV movie "Ferrari".
Francesca has also worked on numerous national commercials with such celebrities as Herb Ritts, Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna and Bob Richardson.
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio(2022)as Twin Daughter 2, Old Woman, Street Sweep
Luca(2021)as Maggiore (Cop)
American Crime Story(2016)as Franca Versace
Bambina(2016)as Mother
Distant Vision(2015)as Filomena Corrado
My Spy: The Eternal City(2024)
The First Omen(2024)
Alphonse(2023)
Ferrari(2023)
The Equalizer 3(2023)
