Podestà was born in Tripoli in the Italian colony of Libya. She spent her first years there, moving to Rome after World War II. At sixteen she was discovered by director Léonide Moguy during the preparation of the cast for the film Domani è un altro giorno; this inaugurated a career in which she participated in sixty films, in Italy and abroad.In Italy, she resided in Dubino (Sondrio province). She married and then divorced movie producer Marco Vicario. From 1980 she lived with the mountain climber, explorer and journalist Walter Bonatti, who died alone in 2011, aged 81, at a private clinic where the hospital management would not allow his partner of **** than 30 years to spend the last minutes of his life together because the two were not married. On 10 December 2013, Podestà died in Rome, aged 79.Podestà's most memorable role was as Helen in Helen of Troy, produced by Robert Wise in 1956. She could not speak English so she learned her lines by rote with a voice coach. The movie gave Podestà international exposure, and she performed alongside a young Brigitte Bardot. Thanks to her starring in the Mexican film Rossana, she became very popular in Latin America.Podestà also starred in the movie Ulisse (1955), directed by Mario Camerini, and in the sixties and seventies she acted in some romantic movies, including Paolo il caldo and Il prete sposato which led to a double **** of five half-naked pictures in the US ******* of March 1966. Under the headline "Trio Con Brio" featuring European actresses, she appeared alongside Christiane Schmidtmer (from Germany) and Shirley Anne Field (from the UK).Her last performance was in Secrets Secrets (1985), directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci. She died on 10 December 2013.
西尔维娅·迪奥尼西奥、菲利普·勒鲁瓦
Giancarlo Giannini、Rossana Podestà
Lando Buzzanca、Rossana Podestà
伦佐·蒙特纳尼、罗桑娜·珀德斯塔
泰布·亨特、罗桑娜·珀德斯塔
Enrico Montesano、Rossana Podestà
朗杰·弗里斯、罗桑娜·珀德斯塔
罗桑娜·珀德斯塔、兰多·布赞卡
雷纳托·波泽托、玛丽莎·奥拉西欧
罗桑娜·珀德斯塔、菲利普·勒鲁瓦