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Date of Birth

18 February 1960, Milan, Italy

Birth Name

Greta Gracco

Height

5' 9" (1.75 m)

Mini Biography

Her mother, Pamela Carsinga, is an English dancer and her father, Luca Scacchi Gracco, an Italian painter. She grew up in Milan and later moves to London. In 1975, her parents moved to Australia, and Greta worked as a cowgirl and an Italian interpreter. At age 18, she returned to London and followed lessons at the Old-Vic Theatre. Played small parts as a stage actress and worked as a model for commercials. The young film maker Dominik Graf discovered her and her first film part is Das zweite Gesicht (1982). Being a perfectionist, she learned German for this movie. After Heat and Dust (1983), she played parts for Australian and English television and returned to London. While playing in a modernised play by Anton Chekhov in 1988, (directed by Margarethe von Trotta), she was discovered by Hollywood.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Wladimir van Heemst

Spouse

Vincent D'Onofrio

(1991 - 1993) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

Last name is pronounced "skacky".

she had a son named Matteo Mantegazza with her cousin, Carlo Mantegazza. [October 1998]

Educated in Australia and England, UK

Became an Australian citizen on 12 January 1995

Ex-girlfriend of singer Tim Finn between 1983 and 1989.

Turned down the Sharon Stone role in Basic Instinct (1992)

Daughter: Leila George D'Onofrio, born in March 1992. Leila's father is actor Vincent D'Onofrio.

Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996

Ex-sister-in-law of Elizabeth D'Onofrio.

Ex-daughter-in-law of Gene D'Onofrio.

She lived in the same apartment in LA with actress and friend Valeria Golino (1988).

Has two older brothers.

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