Biography
Teresa Saponangelo is an Italian film, television and stage actress. Born in Taranto on 22 October 1973, she grew up in Naples and trained at the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica della Calabria and École Philippe Gaulier in France, after earlier studies at Roma Tre University.
She began her career in theatre in the late 1980s and made her film debut in the mid-1990s. Saponangelo is known for roles in August Vacation (1996), A Whole Life Ahead (2008), Come Undone (2010) and Black and White (2008). She received acclaim for her performance as Maria Schisa in Paolo Sorrentino's The Hand of God (2021), for which she won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress, a Nastro d'Argento and the Pasinetti Award. Other notable credits include Il buco in testa (2020), for which she won another Nastro d'Argento, and recent films and series such as Birds Flying East (2024) and Born for You (2023).
