Emanuela Fanelli began her acting career on stage when she was a teenager. She worked in theatre for many years studying under Luigi Onorato, Giorgio Amato, and David Fiandanese. She made her cinema debut in 2015 with ''
Don't Be Bad by Claudio Caligari, which was followed by other films: The Last Will Be the Last and Ignorance Is Bliss by Massimiliano Bruno, Solo by Laura Morante, La casa di famiglia
by Augusto Fornari and A mano disarmata
by Claudio Bonivento. In 2016 she starred in the role of Cinzia, the female protagonist of the TV series Dov'è Mario?'', produced by
Wildside for
Sky Uno, alongside
Corrado Guzzanti. She won a series of awards, including the special mention for best actress and best monologue at the "Ciak, si Roma!" event of the
Rome International Film Festival, from a jury including
Carlo Verdone,
Daniele Luchetti and
Lina Wertmüller. In 2014, she won the award for Best Actress at the
48 Hour Film Project for her role in the short film ''Un film d'amore
. In 2019 she was one of the protagonists of the TV programme Battute?
on Rai 2 and she featured in the music video for "Immigrato", a song by Checco Zalone published to promote the release of his film Tolo Tolo'' in cinemas. Since 2020 she has taken part in the programme
Una pezza di Lundini, with
Valerio Lundini, broadcast from 7 September 2020 on Rai 2. In 2021, she participated in the
Sanremo Music Festival and joined
Lo Stato Sociale and
Francesco Pannofino in a cover of "Non è per sempre" by
Afterhours. She also served as patroness of the awards ceremony at the 2021
Torino Film Festival. She was later chosen as host for
60 sul 2, a programme celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of Rai 2. In 2022, she starred in
Paolo Virzì's
Dry, which earned her the
David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress. In 2023, she portrayed Marisa in
Paola Cortellesi's directorial debut ''
There's Still Tomorrow'', which became one of the highest-grossing films of all time in Italy. In 2024, she was again directed by Virzì in the film
Another Summer Holiday. That same year, she again won Best Supporting Actress at the
69th David di Donatello for her performance in ''There's Still Tomorrow''. ==Filmography==