Biographies: Gia Scala - Actor

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A British actress who was born in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom on March 3, 1934 as Josefina Grazia Scoglio. She married actor Don Burnett in 1959 and was divorced in 1970. Her most important works include Don't Go Near the Water (1957), Ride a Crooked Trail (1958), and The Tunnel of Love (1958). She was tall, dazzling in beauty, but strangely shy and sensitive. She was born to an aristocratic Sicilian father and an Irish mother in England, and moved with her parents to Sicily at the age of 3 months. She then immigrated to New York at the age of 14 and completed high school in 1952 in Queens. She joined the Actors Studio to learn acting and worked on television. She signed a contract with Universal, and after several small roles in cinema, she appeared as a star in the movie The Price of Fear (1956). After the sixties, she began a journey of decline for several factors in her life, including her addiction to alcohol, her marriage to actor Don Burnett, and the loss of her contract with Universal. She threw herself over Waterloo Bridge, but someone rescued her from drowning in the Thames. Her addiction to alcohol caused her arrest several times and admission to a mental institution. Eventually, she ended her life with an overdose of alcohol and sleeping pills. She died on April 30, 1972 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

• 16 February 2022
• Christina Aziz