Elena Sofia Ricci met Pedro in Buenos Aires. An Argentine tango master who pushed her to let herself go in dance. The first thing he told her was: "Life is now, don't waste it with phrases like I can't dance". And so she began to dance. "I felt free".
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In the cinema with Margherita Buy, Elena Sofia Ricci is not afraid to "Fly". She continues to be afraid of her fragility, as she decided to tell Corriere della Sera: "Perhaps that of having sought in every important man that abstract idea of "traditional family" which I never had. And so I stumbled several times".
The list is long. The actress was married to Luca Damiani, from Pino Quartullo she had a daughter, Emma, and from her marriage with Stefano Mainetti, recently concluded, another daughter, Maria, was born. "In love, I hurt myself a lot", she admits again to Corsera.
She missed the traditional family: "My mother and father separated early, I suffered a lot, I grew up with my grandmother. But she had a nice wooden floor: I did classical dance and that's when I started to love theater. Acting, the set, the "fake". A difficult relationship especially with her father, then resolved: "After thirty I realized that I had been programmed to hate my father. And then I decided to find him. Yes, I managed to tell him everything". And at 30 she also met Elisa, her sister, born from another relationship of her father: "It was a gift of life, an affection that I chose as an adult and not a relationship taken for granted".
A form of love for her has always been faith. "I received the gift of faith years ago, just as I was playing a nun on television. I don't know if it's a form of love, it's certainly a form of progressive mentality, because those who believe love, trust in the future and in others, do not barricade themselves".
And the character of Sister Angela gave extraordinary popularity to Elena Sofia Ricci: "But the nice thing is that this also helps to promote other things, for example theater, my great love. When, as a director and performer, I brought Seneca's "Phaedra" to the stage, the theater was full...".
Elena Sofia Ricci in her life says thanks to faith but also to psychoanalysis: "For a woman who like me suffered abuse at 12 by a family acquaintance, well, it was very important. Today I no longer say "Sorry if I exist" but I decided to like myself, to be next to my daughters, to be a more aware actress and mother".
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