Gaia Girace Explained
Gaia Girace |
Birth Date: | 21 October 2003 |
Birth Place: | Vico Equense, Naples, Italy |
Occupation: | Actress |
Years Active: | 2018–present |
Gaia Girace (born 21 October 2003) is an Italian actress. She is best known for her role as Raffaella "Lila" Cerullo in the HBO coming-of-age television series My Brilliant Friend.[1]
Biography
Gaia Girace grew up in Vico Equense, Naples.[2] Her father is a lawyer and her mother works in insurance.[3] She attended the Liceo Classico Publio Virgilio in Meta,[4] and was cast in My Brilliant Friend in her first year.[5]
At the age of 13, Girace began attending acting classes, citing a need to express herself. Soon after, she auditioned for My Brilliant Friend, which had been casting actresses from Naples.[6] She underwent 7 months of auditions before being chosen to play Lila Cerullo out of 10,000 girls.
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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2021 | I santi | Maria | Short film | [7] |
2023 | Girasoli | Lucia | | [8] | |
Television
Notes and References
- Web site: Povoledo . Elisabetta . Growing Up Onscreen With ‘My Brilliant Friend’ . The New York Times . 25 February 2022.
- Web site: Myers . Marc . The Italian Actresses in ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Talk About Their Own Childhoods and Different Paths to Stardom . Wall Street Journal . 1 March 2022.
- Web site: Corci . Di Corinne . Gaia Girace, parlare a voce alta . Cosmopolitan . it-IT . 1 April 2023.
- Web site: Gaia Girace l'attrice originaria della Penisola Sorrentina intervistata dal Corriere per il ritorno dell' "Amica Geniale" . Positano News . it . 18 January 2022.
- Web site: Manca . Mario . Gaia Girace: "L'Amica geniale, la mia adolescenza strappata e il ruolo della ragazza coraggiosa di The Good Mothers" . Vanity Fair Italia . it-IT . 4 April 2023.
- Web site: Reilly . Phoebe . Finding the Ferrante Four . Vulture . en-us . 7 November 2018.
- Web site: I santi . RIFF - Rome Independent Film Festival . 29 October 2021.
- Web site: De Marco . Camillo . Shooting is now underway on Catrinel Marlon’s first work Girasoli . Cineuropa . en . 10 January 2023.
- Web site: My Brilliant Friend . HBO . en.
- Web site: "The King's Favorite," an ambitious historical fresco . Unifrance . 7 April 2022.
- Web site: Vivarelli . Nick . Disney+ Series ‘The Good Mothers,’ Real Story of Women Who Dare to Defy Italian Mob, Marks U.K. Italy Collaboration . Variety . 21 February 2023.