Fabiana Udenio | |
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Born |
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
December 21, 1964
Years active | 1978-present |
Fabiana Udenio (born December 21, 1964) is an Italian actress born in Argentina. She is best known for her role as "Alotta Fagina", a Bond girl parody in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
Udenio was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and moved to Italy, where at the age of thirteen, was crowned "Miss Teen Italy", that same year Fabiana made her theatre debut as Miranda in The Tempest directed by Giorgio Strehler. She began acting in films and television as a teenager .
Her film roles include playing the daughter of a World War II Resistance fighter (Barbara Bouchet) in The Scarlet and the Black, Italian foreign-exchange student Anna-Maria Mazarelli in Summer School (1987), the sunbather in the "Sunblock 5000" commercial within RoboCop 2 (1990), Dan Cain's only living girlfriend Francesca in Bride of Re-Animator (1990), as "Alotta Fagina" in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), as "Don Na" in The Godson (1998), and Gabriella in Pauly Shore's film In The Army Now (1994).
On television, Udenio had the recurring role of "Giulietta" on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live from 1985 to 1986, and was regular cast member in the syndicated drama Amazon (1999-2000). She has guest starred and had recurring roles on dozens of television shows, including Babylon 5, Baywatch, Full House, NYPD Blue, Quantum Leap, Mortal Kombat: Conquest, Cheers, Mad About You, Wings, The Magnificent Seven, CSI: Miami, and Mistresses. She also had the recurring role on 90210 (2008-2011) of Atooza Shirazi. She is currently recurring as Elena Di Nola/Mutter in the critically acclaimed series Jane the Virgin (2015-2016).