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name: "Stella Maris"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/stella-maris"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "26 January 1922"
died: "2 March 2018"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:52:18.870403+00:00"
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# Stella Maris

Actor. Born 26 January 1922 in Argentina. Died 2 March 2018.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 26 January 1922, Argentina
- **Died:** 2 March 2018

## Biography

Stella Maris, pseudonym of Ilvea Benatti, was an Italian actress. She began her career in the 1950s as a character actress in theatre, appearing alongside Walter Chiari at the Teatro Duse in Bergamo and later working with the companies of Febo Conti and Carlo Dapporto.

From the 1980s she appeared in numerous television productions, including *Casa Vianello* and *Ciro, il figlio di Target*. Her film roles include *Electric Dreams* (1984), *Truly Madly Deeply* (1990) as Maura, *Tutti gli uomini del deficiente* (1999), *Imagining Argentina* (2003) and *Benvenuti al Nord* (2012). She gained later popularity for the viral marketing character Nonna Lea in a 2011 series of videos for the property portal Casa.it.

*Sources: it.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Truly Madly Deeply* (1991), Fi1m 80, as Maura — [page](https://film.one/film/truly-madly-deeply.md)

## Also known for

- *Welcome to the North* (2012), Vicina di casa di Alberto
- *Human Capital* (2013), Vicina di Donato
- *Electric Dreams* (1984), Woman at Airport
- *Tutti gli uomini del deficiente* (1999), President's mother-in-law
- *Imagining Argentina* (2003), Concepta Madrid

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