Maria Grazia Buccella

Maria Grazia Buccella, (born 15 August 1940) is a former Italian glamour model, Miss Italy contestant (1959) and film actress.

Maria Grazia Buccella
Buccella in Sissignore (1969)
Born (1940-08-15) 15 August 1940
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Years active1951-2000

Buccella screen tested for the role of Domino Derval in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. The role eventually went to French actress, Claudine Auger.[1] That year, she appeared in the Dino Risi-directed film Il Gaucho which co-starred actors such as Vittorio Gassman.

In 1966, she played the beauty Miss Okra in the Peter Sellers film After the Fox. In 1968, she won a Silver Ribbon award at the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists for Best Supporting Actress (Migliore Attrice Non Protagonista) in the film Ti ho sposato per allegria.[2]

She was featured on the cover of Playboy magazine in July 1977. She virtually retired from film in 1979 although she made two small appearances in the late 1980s and a final appearance in the 2000 TV series Hotel Otello.

Filmography

References
  1. Production notes for Thunderball — MI6.co.uk Archived 18 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Enrico Lancia. I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 88-7742-221-1.
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