High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valeria Solarino (born 4 November 1979) is an Italian actress, born in Venezuela. She was born at El Morro de Barcelona to a Sicilian father and Turinese mother. After studying philosophy at the University of Turin, she debuted as actress in the Teatro Stabile. In 2003 she was chosen by director Mimmo Calopresti for a small role in La felicità non costa niente (Happiness Costs Nothing) (2003), after which her career took off: in the same year she played Maja in the Fame chimica (Chemical Hunger) by Paolo Vari and Antonio Bocola and Bea in Che ne sarà di noi (What Will Happen to Us) by Giovanni Veronesi, who is her current partner.