Our feature on Italian people today includes Moana Pozzi (real name Anna Moana Rosa Pozzi) who is credited as the first Italian actress to bring pornography to the masses.
She was born in Genoa on April 27, 1961, and started her career in television on the children’s program Tip Tap Club, on Italian state television, Rai, in 1981.
In the meantime, she dedicated herself to hard cinema, a fast track to success.
At Rai they discovered her ‘extra curricula’ activities and she was sacked.
It was the beginning of a harcore porn period for Moana, who was part of the Riccardo Schicchi team, husband at the time to Ilona Staller.
Moana appeared in more than 60 porn films, and was even part of the Italian political party “Il partito dell’Amore” between 1991 and 1993.
Moana was part of the collective Italian imagination in an alternative world, but died very young at only 33 years old due to a sudden liver tumour.
We give you a video of the Italian pornstar, interviewed on television, while below a series of photographs of Moana, newly published and restored by Leonardo Baldini.