Vanna Bonta

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Vanna Marie Bonta (born April 3, 1958 in Florence , Italy - † July 8, 2014 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American writer and film actress .

She was the daughter of an Italian painter and an American officer and the granddaughter of Luigi Ugolini .

Author

Her book Flight: a Quantum Fiction Novel (Meridian House, 1995) is about a story that takes place in parallel worlds and tells the adventures in the diversity of an amnesia girl without a navel. With "Quantum Fiction" she wants to introduce a new literary genre of the 21st century.

Film work

Vanna Bonta with her husband in the moment of microgravity during a flight with the G-Force One for recordings for the documentary series Secrets of the Universe with the 2suit ; see also sex in space

Bonta appeared in Secrets of the Universe , Season 3, Episode 4 "Sex in Space" and talked about how the "2suit" she invented, a spacesuit designed to enable intercourse, could be used to create familiarity in weightlessness to achieve colonization of other planets. She filmed a History Channel documentation while testing the 2suit in weightlessness , which portrayed Bonta's second parabolic flight. She was an advocate for space exploration . She made a cameo as Zed's wife, the young mother of the hero in the fantasy film The Beastmaster .

Bonta drafted "Sometime" for the first season of Starship Enterprise: The Next Century . She has had numerous roles as a voice actress in feature films such as Beauty and the Beast (Disney). She was the computer voice in Demolition Man .

Others

A portrait of her as a young girl was drawn by the Florentine artist Pietro Annigoni .

She was the model for the work "Ex Nihilo" (Out of Nothing) by Frederick Hart , the tympanum at the front west entrance of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC

Bonta has collected award-winning books of poetry.

Published works

Books

  • Vanna Bonta: Flight: a quantum fiction novel . Meridian House, 1995, ISBN 0-912339-17-9 .
  • Vanna Bonta: Degrees: thought capsules (poems) and micro tales on life, death, man, woman & art . Dora Books, 1989, ISBN 0-912339-05-5 .
  • Vanna Bonta: Shades of the world . Dora Books, 1985, ISBN 0-912339-01-2 .
  • Vanna Bonta: Rewards of Passion (a poem). . Empire Books, 1981.

Essays

  • The impact of space activities on society. . ESA Publications, 2005, ISBN 92-9092-582-5 .
  • Vanna Bonta: The cosmos as a poem. 1994, 2012.
  • Vanna Bonta: State of the art 2000, 2012.
  • Vanna Bonta: Il Cosmo Come Poesia ( Italian ). Beacon Hill, 2008, 2011.
  • Il Cosmos Come Poesia - Città di Vita, Bimestrale di religione, arte, scienza - Issue V; (May 2008, October 2011)
  • Space: What Love Got To Do , The Space Review (Oct. 24, 2004)

Short stories

  • Vanna Bonta: Ordinary Holy Days 1992, 2012.
  • Vanna Bonta: Mothership 1992, 2012.

Filmography

year title role notes
2012 Dante's inferno documented Speaker: 6th Circle - the heretic
1993 Hocus Pocus French teacher (Voice)
2008 The universe Self / inventor History Channel documentation
1993 Demolition Man computer (Voice)
2005 What's up Pianist / weightless aviator
2004 Born to Fight Mali (Voice: English version)
2003 What your heart desires Nurse in the emergency room (Voice)
1991 Feivel the mouse wanderer: Feivel is going northwest (Voice)
1991 Sleeping Dogs - Diary of a Murderer Serena's secretary
1982 Time walker Student in the laboratory
1982 Beastmaster - The Liberator Zed's wife
1991 Beauty and the Beast (Voice)
1990 Kangaroo land (Voice)
2002 Twilight Zone (Voice) (TV series)
1994 Armed and Innocent Candy (TV movie)
1986 Agent with a heart Leading actress in the play (TV series)
1985 My Bad, Bad Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn Blue moon waitress (TV movie)
1982 Crisps secretary (TV series)

further reading

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Vanna Bonta, una scrittrice dell '”altro mondo” ( memento of the original from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Interview, Francesca Ceci - Minerva; May 18, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.minervariviste.com
  2. ^ Space Foundation Gives Nod To Poetry Huliq News; August 2, 2008.
  3. Publishers Weekly - Book review Flight: a quantum fiction novel, by Vanna Bonta; "Whatever 'quantum fiction' is, we need more of it." January 2, 1995.
  4. Flight: a quantum fiction novel, by Vanna Bonta ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Book reviews @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / velocityebooks.com
  5. Flight, by Vanna Bonta  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Blog reviews; May 6, 2008.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / 208.66.67.31  
  6. Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Audio ghost; February 11, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.audiogeist.com
  7. Quantum Fiction ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. quando la quantistica detta le leggi della scrittura, by Maria Zuppello; Panorama Mondadori, January 16, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.panorama.it
  8. Quantum Fiction - Light is the New Spooky ( Memento of the original dated August 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; July 16, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zimbio.com
  9. Novel melds reality, fantasy ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Kyle Z. Bell, 1996. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gather.com
  10. Flight quantum fiction and alternate realities A Gaggle of Book Reviews; January 28, 2008.
  11. Is Newt's zero-gravity sex idea any good? by Uri Friedman, Foreign Policy; January 26, 2012.
  12. Thrusters on full: Sex in space ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , by Keiron Monks, Metro World News; April 10, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / metronews.ca
  13. 7 Real suits that will soon make the world a cooler place , by Soren Bowie; CRACKED Magazine, November 15, 2010.
  14. Inventors Digest , May 2009; Issue 25, Volume 5
  15. American Chronicle ( Memento June 11, 2009 on the Internet Archive ) - May 2, 2009; Vanna Bonta Does Inventor's Digest: New Meaning To Beautiful
  16. Outer-space sex carries complications by Alan Boyle, Science Editor ; MSNBC News, July 24, 2006.
  17. The Universe: Sex in Space Marks New Era For Mankind? ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Now Public (December 1, 2008) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nowpublic.com
  18. Beyond a First Kiss for Humankind: Vanna Bonta Space Suit ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Zimbio (November 17, 2011) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zimbio.com
  19. ^ The Space Settlement Summit , by John Carter McKnight; Space Daily, March 20, 2003.
  20. Untold Tales of the Next Generation Schuster & Schuster, 1989, ISBN 1-55698-215-1 .
  21. Undeveloped Star Trek episodes
  22. ^ Vanna Bonta filmography Fandango
  23. ^ Pietro Annigoni biography imdb
  24. Cathedral secrets - "Hart created beauty, and won" ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Zimbio; February 22, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zimbio.com
  25. And God Created ... Vanna Bonta! Waleg Celebrities; 17th February 2012.
  26. The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society (ESA Br,) [Hardcover]
  27. The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , by Vanna Bonta (2005) ESA @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spaceandsociety.org
  28. Citta di Vita Bimestrale di religione, arte, scienza
  29. Space: What love's got to do with it , by Vanna Bonta; The Space Review; October 24, 2004.