She died yesterday Anna Kanakis. The actress and former model was 61 years old. In 1977, at a very young age, she was elected Miss Italy. Then her career as an actress, in which she took part in almost thirty films and feature films, then her political involvement and finally writing. The announcement of her death was made by her husband Marco Merati Foscarini. The funeral will take place on November 23rd at 3 p.m. in the church of San Salvatore in Lauro in Rome.
Daughter of a Greek engineer father from Crete and a lawyer mother from Tortorici (in the Nebrodi part of Messina).At just 15 years old, she was elected Miss Italy in Sant’Eufemia d’Aspromonte in September 1977: she was the first girl so young to be elected after a change in the regulations. In 1981 he took part Miss Universe and later became a model.
He made his film debut with small roles in the brilliant comedy. Then with Luigi MagniHer first small dramatic role was as a robber in the film “o Rè, con Giancarlo Giannini And Ornella Muti. This is followed by over 30 films and television dramas in Italy and abroad.
In the cinema she was in great demand in 80s comedies, which she directed several times Castellano And Pipolo and from Sergio Martino in films such as Attila, the Scourge of God (1982), Eye, Evil Eye, Parsley and Fennel (1983), Acapulco, First Beach… on the Left (1983).
At that time she was also often seen on television in co-protagonist roles, such as in “Vento di Ponente” (2002) and in “The Third Truth” (2007), but in recent years her main occupation has become writing.
Anna Kanakis he also had a short political career: became national head of culture and entertainment of the Democratic Union of the Republic (UDR)the party founded by Francesco Cossiga.
2010 with the novel “You are mine when you sleep”. Her debut as an author was George Sands’ Last Scandalous Love (Marsilio Editori). In 2011 he published the second novel “Goebbels’ Lovers” (Marsilio Editori), in which he told the true story Lida BaarovaCzechoslovak actress, whose lover was Joseph Goebbels in 1938. Finally, in 2022, he published Non Giudicarmi with Baldini & Castoldi, a historical novel in which the protagonist, the Baron Jacques d’Adelsward heelsa real character fighting his demons: the lack of talent to become the writer he wanted to be and homosexuality, which brought him isolation from his family, prison and deep melancholy.
Kanakis he had two marriages. In 1981 she married the musician Claudio Simonetti, whom he divorced a few years later. In 2004 she married the Venetian Marco Merati FoscariniDescendant of Marco Foscarinione of the last Doges of Venice.