Federica Ranchi

Federica Ranchi (5 May 1939 – 15 May 2025) was an Italian actress.

Federica Ranchi
Ranchi in Violent Summer (1959)
Born	(1939-05-05)5 May 1939 Trieste, Italy
Died	15 May 2025(2025-05-15) (aged 86) Aegina, Greece
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1956–1962

Life and career

Born in Trieste, while a student at liceo linguistico Ranchi was noted by a Cines employee through a picture of her ballet company, and subsequently won an audition for the Leonardo De Mitri's comedy-drama Wives and Obscurities.^[1][2]

Typically cast in roles of sensitive and fragile women, following several roles with auteurs such as Valerio Zurlini and Gillo Pontecorvo and in some genre films, in 1963 Ranchi married a Greek shipowner and eventually retired from showbusiness, even refusing a five-year contract with Dino De Laurentiis.^[1][2]

Ranchi died on 15 May 2025, at the age of 86.^[3]

Selected filmography

• Wives and Obscurities (1956)
• The Wide Blue Road (1957)
• Devil's Cavaliers (1959)
• Violent Summer (1959)
• Son of Samson (1960)
• Goliath and the Dragon (1960)
• Women of Devil's Island (1962)