She is the daughter of actor and director
Ugo Tognazzi and actress
Franca Bettoia. She has a brother, actor
Gianmarco, and two
half-brothers, actor and director
Ricky Tognazzi and film director and producer
Thomas Robsahm. Following years as an apprentice director, she made her directorial debut with the 1997 live action
short film Non finisce qui. This was followed by two more short films, ''C'ero anch'io
(1999) and Sempre a tempo
(2000). Her first feature-length film was Past Perfect (Italian: Passato prossimo'', 2003), for which she also co-wrote the
screenplay with Daniele Prato and for which the
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists awarded her the 2003
Nastro d'Argento for Best New Director. It was also entered into the
25th Moscow International Film Festival. Her second feature film,
The Man Who Loves (Italian: ''L'uomo che ama
, 2008), was written with Ivan Cotroneo and filmed at Lake Orta and Turin. The cast included Pierfrancesco Favino and Monica Bellucci. In 2010, her documentary Ritratto di mio padre
(Portrait of My Father
) was screened at the Rome Film Festival. Her third feature film, A Five Star Life (Italian: Viaggio sola
, 2013), starring Margherita Buy, was written with Ivan Cotroneo and Francesca Marciano. Me, Myself and Her'' is the first feature-length Italian romantic comedy about a
lesbian relationship. ==Filmography==