Francesca Della Ragione

Early Career Actress, director, producer, and writer, born and raised in Rome. She began her film career at a very young age in 2003 as an actress in Leonardo Pieraccioni’s comedy Il Paradiso all’Improvviso, and later worked with directors such as Paolo Virzì (La pazza gioia), Alessandro D’Alatri (La legge del numero uno; Il commissario Ricciardi), and Nicola Barnaba (Ciao Brother). Awards In 2020, she won the Award for Best Emerging Actress at the Terra di Siena Film Festival for her role in Francesco Maria Dominedò’s La Banda dei Tre, a film for which she also received the Vincenzo Crocitti Award. In 2021, she directed her first short film Regalo di Compleanno, recipient of selective MiC funding and finalist at Tulipani di Seta Nera RAI. Directing & Screenwriting In 2022, she won the MiC screenplay grant for the film La Guerra di Elena, produced in 2025 by Titanus and Rai Cinema. That same year, she appeared in Giovanni Virgilio’s I Racconti della Domenica, Alberto Ferrari’s The Christmas Show, and Paolo Strippoli’s Piove. In 2023, she wrote and directed Può solo andare meglio, a documentary on "over-indebtedness," presented among the projects of the Veneto Film Commission during the 80th Venice International Film Festival. Also in 2023, she directed the short film Silenzio Assordante for the National Center against Bullying BULLI STOP, co-written with students of Professor Giovanna Pini’s pedagogical theatre. Recent Works In June 2023, she shot Sergio Basso’s film Cercando Itaca with Eugenio Mastandrea, Giorgio Colangeli, and Giulia Petrungaro, released in 2025 as an art-house film. She also appeared in the short FIABEXIT by Lorenzo Giovenga and Giuliano Giacomelli. In 2024, she filmed Toni Trupia’s La Primavera and the short Il Maritozzo, co-produced by NUOVO IMAIE. Between 2024 and 2025, she joined Netflix’s series RIV4LI (spin-off of DI4RI) and Luca Lucini’s Stella Gemella, premiering at the Rome Film Festival. In 2025, she directed the documentary Tagliato per Vivere and the short Break the Silence. She also shot Alessandro Parrello’s Dolcemente and completed Break the Silence with Brandos Film and Be Talent Academy. In October 2025, she will take part in the Italian-Turkish production Ghost Lover by Ali Ilhan. Coaching & Advocacy She is an acting coach in film acting at the Be Talent Academy, which she founded. She is also the voice and face of Autostrade per l’Italia against gender-based violence, in partnership with the travel-podcasting app Loquis, with the podcast channel Donne Interrotte. Storie di memorie e di ripartenza