Denise Capezza

Denise Capezza is a young Neapolitan actress. Denise grew up on stage wearing a tutu, and after fifteen years of academic study, she graduated with a degree in modern and contemporary ballet. Because ...Show More

Denise Capezza is a young Neapolitan actress. Denise grew up on stage wearing a tutu, and after fifteen years of academic study, she graduated with a degree in modern and contemporary ballet. Because of a knee injury, however, she had to stop, and quickly decided to enter the world of cinema. Her interest in film had its roots in her life in Naples and carried on to Rome, where she was soon the protagonist of the world's TV campaign of the Qatar Foundation (sponsor of the Barcelona football club). But her stay in the capital was brief.. After auditioning several times in English, she was chosen to star in the Turkish TV series Uçurum (2012) (later sold in 13 countries). She flew to Istanbul and learned Turkish in just three months. Despite her young age and lack of experience, Denise acted in harsh and difficult scenes, successfully portraying Felicia, a young Moldovan girl and victim of prostitution traffic. The Turkish public fell in love with Denise's character so much so that after two seasons of Uçurum (2012), she started starring in other important projects such as "Inadina Yasamak", "Düsler ve Umutlar", "Darbe", "Askin dili yok" and Hep Yek (2016). She also learned Turkish sign language to interpret the deaf Canan in a TV series that tells of the conflicts between Kurds and Turks. For the filming, she moved to Kurdistan, in the province of Van, despite the delicate political situation there. Emboldened by the work experience gained abroad in three years, Denise decided to return to Italy. Eventually she was chosen by director Stefano Sollima to play in the second season of the Sky TV series Gomorra: La serie (2014), as a beautifully melancholy and fatal Marinella, both a victim of and executioner of the camorra world. Than she was with Clive Owen in the noir short movie Killer in Red (2017) for Campari, created and directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Hide