Farewell to Anna Kanakis, actress and writer, former Miss Italy – cinema
Goodbye to Anna Kanakis, actress and writer, former very young Miss Italy. She died yesterday at the age of 61, and the funeral will be held in Rome on November 24 in the church of San Salvatore in Lauro.
Born in Messina, the daughter of a Greek father and a Sicilian mother, she was only 15 when she was chosen as Miss Italy in Sant’Eufemia d’Aspromonte: she was the first queen so young, after the rule change. In 1981, she participated in the Miss Universe pageant.
Brunette, elegant, Mediterranean, with gorgeous golden eyes, Kanakis started her career as a model, and then, on the advice of Giuseppe Tornatore, she started working as an actress. In the eighties, she starred in over 30 films and TV dramas. There were many great comedies from the beginning, directed by Castellano and Pipolo and Sergio Martino in Attila flagello di Dio (1982), Eye, evil eye, parsley and fennel (1983), Acapulco, the first beach… on the left (1983) , but with Luigi Magni she made her film debut in 1989, playing the flamboyant role of a “banditsa” in O Re, with Giancarlo Giannini and Ornello Muti, followed the same year by Molière’s L’Avaro, directed by Tonino Cervi and starring Alberto Sordi. . Since the late 80s, Kanakis has been a protagonist on TV from Michelangelo directed by Jerry London to the series Vento di Ponente (2002), L’Inchiesta (2006) directed by Giulio Base and finally La Terza Verità (2007) directed by Stefano. Real. After moving into politics – national head of culture and entertainment for the Democratic Union for the Republic (UDR), the party founded by Francesco Cossiga – her second life as a writer.
In 2010, he made his debut with the novel ‘Tako si moja kad spavas. The last scandalous love of Georges Sand’ (Marsilio Editori). In 2011, the second novel Goebbels’s Lover (Marsilio Editori) was published, about the story of Lida Baarova, a Czechoslovak actress who was the lover of the Nazi hierarch in 1938. The latest work is from 2022: Don’t judge me (Baldini i Castoldi), another historical novel, this path about Baron Jacques d’Adelsward Fersen. After her first marriage at a very young age to the musician Claudio Simonetti, from whom she divorced a few years later, the second in 2004 to the Venetian Marco Merati Foscarini, a descendant of Marco Foscarini, one of the last Doge of Venice.
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