Licinia Lentini

Licinia Lentini — Biography

Licinia Lentini is an Italian actress, showgirl and voice artist who has been in Italian film and television since the late 1970s. In 1980 she gained wide popularity as a showgirl in the RAI variety show Studio '80. In the years that followed, alongside film acting, she turned to theatre and dubbing.

Her early film work was in genre pictures. She played the commander's assistant in La guerra dei robot (The War of the Robots, 1978), Miss Sheba in Silver Saddle (1978) and Miriam Bella in Gardenia (1979). She also appeared in Prickly Pears (1980) and in Delitto in Formula Uno (1984), in which she played Rossana. She took part in comedy-leaning productions such as Teste di quoio and Vacanze di Natale and in several television serials. From the mid-1980s she focused her career mainly on theatre and dubbing.

In Vanilla and Chocolate (2004) she played Irene, Penelope's mother. She has also worked as a dubbing director and dialogue writer, and is sometimes credited as Lilian Lacy and Licia Lee Lyon. She was born in Rome.