Vanna Bonta
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
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 |
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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
- Waleg Celebrities News Archive
- The Space Settlement Summit , by John Carter McKnight; The Space Daily, March 20, 2003
Web links
- Vanna Bonta in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Vanna Bonta Filmography WDW
- Quotes and sayings
- Bonta's video "What Goes Up"
- Vanna Bonta childhood photo
- Vanna Bonta Photo Gallery
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Space Foundation Gives Nod To Poetry Huliq News; August 2, 2008.
- ↑ Publishers Weekly - Book review Flight: a quantum fiction novel, by Vanna Bonta; "Whatever 'quantum fiction' is, we need more of it." January 2, 1995.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Flight, by Vanna Bonta ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Flight quantum fiction and alternate realities A Gaggle of Book Reviews; January 28, 2008.
- ↑ Is Newt's zero-gravity sex idea any good? by Uri Friedman, Foreign Policy; January 26, 2012.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 7 Real suits that will soon make the world a cooler place , by Soren Bowie; CRACKED Magazine, November 15, 2010.
- ↑ Inventors Digest , May 2009; Issue 25, Volume 5
- ↑ American Chronicle ( Memento June 11, 2009 on the Internet Archive ) - May 2, 2009; Vanna Bonta Does Inventor's Digest: New Meaning To Beautiful
- ↑ Outer-space sex carries complications by Alan Boyle, Science Editor ; MSNBC News, July 24, 2006.
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ 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)
- ^ The Space Settlement Summit , by John Carter McKnight; Space Daily, March 20, 2003.
- ↑ Untold Tales of the Next Generation Schuster & Schuster, 1989, ISBN 1-55698-215-1 .
- ↑ Undeveloped Star Trek episodes
- ^ Vanna Bonta filmography Fandango
- ^ Pietro Annigoni biography imdb
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ And God Created ... Vanna Bonta! Waleg Celebrities; 17th February 2012.
- ↑ The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society (ESA Br,) [Hardcover]
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Citta di Vita Bimestrale di religione, arte, scienza
- ↑ Space: What love's got to do with it , by Vanna Bonta; The Space Review; October 24, 2004.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bonta, Vanna |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bonta, Vanna Marie (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and film actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1958 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |
DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 2014 |
Place of death | los Angeles |