This year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is proud to play host to Jasmine Trinca, one of Italy’s most distinctive young actors today, despite the fact that she studied art history, not acting.
Trinca’s acting debut met with great success: in The Son’s Room, which won the Golden Palm at Cannes, she played Nanni Moretti’s daughter – a role for which she was named talent of the year.
She subsequently appeared in the successful miniseries The Best of Youth and, reprising her collaboration with Nanni Moretti, in the biopic The Caiman about the life of Silvio Berlusconi. Karlovy Vary audiences could see her in 2013 in Valerie Golino’s Miele and Georgio Diritti’s There Will Come a Day, and two years ago in the Taviani brothers’ Wondrous Boccaccio. She also appeared alongside Sean Penn and Javier Bardem in the crime thriller The Gunman.
For her portrayal of a single mother living on the outskirts of Rome in director Sergio Castellitto’s Fortunata (Lucky), she was given the Un Certain Regard Jury Award for Best Performance at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
