Lorella De Luca

Lorella De Luca
De Luca in the movie Il bidone (1955)
Born	(1940-09-17)17 September 1940 Florence, Kingdom of Italy
Died	9 January 2014(2014-01-09) (aged 73) Civitavecchia, Rome, Italy
Other names	Hally Hammond
Occupations	Actress assistant director
Years active	1955–1984
Spouse	Duccio Tessari ​ (m. 1971⁠–⁠1994)​
Children	Federica Tessari Fiorenza Tessari

Lorella De Luca (17 September 1940 – 9 January 2014) was an Italian film, television, and voice actress. One of the most recognized ingénues of Italian cinema during the mid-to-late 1950s, she is best known for having played naive young girls in dramas and comedies.

She was born in Florence, Italy, and, following her "discovery" at age 14, made her acting debut in the Federico Fellini film Il bidone (1955). De Luca's breakout role, however, came a year later following her performance in Dino Risi's comedy Poor, But Beautiful (1956) and continued on in the genre, with appearances in Mario Monicelli films A Tailor's Maid (1957) and Doctor and the Healer (1957), as well as in Duccio Tessari's spaghetti Westerns A Pistol for Ringo (1965) and its sequel The Return of Ringo (1965) with Giuliano Gemma.