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This is a list of notable Italian Americans
Anarchists
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Architects
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Artists
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Brian Azzarello - comic book writer
Joseph Barbera (1911–2006) - animator, cartoon artist, storyboard artist, director, producer, and co-founder, together with William Hanna, of Hanna-Barbera
Timothy D. Bellavia (born 1971) - children's illustrator, author and founder of the We Are All The Same Inside - Sage doll-making workshop
Ivan Brunetti (born 1967) - cartoonist and comics author
Joe Pesci - Italian American actor and musician
John Buscema (1927–2002) - comic-book artist and one of the mainstays of Marvel Comics during its 1960s and 1970s ascendancy into an industry leader and its subsequent expansion to a major pop culture conglomerate
Greg Capullo (born 1962) - comic book artist
Anthony Flamini (born 1978) - comic book writer
Frank Frazetta (1928–2010) - one of the world's most influential fantasy and science fiction artists
Dick Giordano (1932–2010) - comic book artist and editor
Frank Giacoia (1925–1989) - comic book artist
Carmine Infantino (1925–2013) - comic book artist and editor who was a major force in the Silver Age of Comic Books
Walter Lantz (1900–1994) - cartoonist and animator, founded the Walter Lantz Studio, created Woody Woodpecker
Bob Montana (1920–1975) - comic strip artist who created the characters that launched Archie comics
Joe Orlando (1927–1998) - illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist
Jimmy Palmiotti - writer and artist of various comics, games and film
Leo Politi (1908–1996) - artist and author who wrote and illustrated some 20 children's books
Don Rico (1912–1985) - comic book writer-artist, paperback novelist, screenwriter and wood engraver; co-created the Marvel Comics character Black Widow with Stan Lee
John Romita Jr. (born 1956) - comic artist best known for his extensive work for Marvel Comics from the 1970s to the 2010s
John Romita, Sr. (born 1930) - comic book artist known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man
Don Rosa (born 1951) - comic book artist for Disney comics
Eric Stefani (born 1967) - pop musician, former Simpsons animator, and Grammy-nominated composer and writer
Jim Valentino (born 1952) - writer, penciler and editor of comic books
Gerard Way (born 1977) - comic book writer; frontman of the American rock band My Chemical Romance
Digital artists and illustrators
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Ashley Biden (born 1981) - founder of the fashion company Livelihood, daughter of Joe and Jill Biden
Louise Fili (born 1951) - graphic designer, 2014 American Institute of Graphic Arts Medalist[1]
Fred Marcellino (1939–2001) - illustrator
Painters
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Business
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Criminals
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Entertainers
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Actors
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Food
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Inventors
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Anthony Adducci (1937–2006) - pioneer of the medical device industry in Minnesota; best known for founding Guidant Corp. precursor Cardiac Pacemakers, inc., now part of Boston Scientific, the company that manufactured the world's first lithium battery-powered artificial pacemaker[2]
Giuseppe Mario Bellanca - designer of the first monoplane in the United States with an enclosed cabin
Enea Bossi
Lorenzo Del Riccio - inventor of fotofinish camera
Daniel DiLorenzo - medical device entrepreneur and physician-scientist. He is the inventor of several technologies for the treatment of neurological disease
Federico Faggin (born 1941) - physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur; best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004
Gerard J. Foschini
The Jacuzzi family - developed the deep well water pump that led to the famous whirlpool bath
Antonio Meucci (1808–1889) - credited by the Congress of the United States with the invention of the telephone
Antonio Pasin (1897–1990) - inventor of the Radio Flyer stamped steel toy wagoni
Sam Porcello (1935–2012) - food scientist who worked at Nabisco on the modern Oreo cookie in particular, was the inventor of the white Oreo cookie creme-filling. His work earned him the nickname, "Mr. Oreo."
Lorenzo Ponza - inventor of the modern baseball pitching machine
Francis Rogallo - engineer at NASA , designed the Rogallo wing , which found its greatest success in hang gliders and kites
Andrea Rossi (born 1950) - entrepreneur who claims to have invented the cold fusion device E-Cat
Andrew Toti
Andrew Viterbi (born 1935) - engineer, billionaire, cofounder of Qualcomm , inventor of the Viterbi algorithm
Frank Zamboni - inventor of the modern ice resurfacer
Jurists
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Judges
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Lawyers
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Melissa Anelli - resident of Staten Island , journalist at Staten Island Advance webmaster of The Leaky Cauldron
Charly Arnolt - sports journalist (ESPN , OutKick , WWE )
Carlo Barsotti - emigrated from Italy to New York City in 1872. In 1879, he founded the Il Progresso Italo-Americano
Maria Bartiromo - financial journalist and television host
Joe Benigno - WFAN sports radio personality
David Brancaccio - journalist
Harry Caray (1914–1998) - born Harry Christopher Carabina, sports broadcaster, did play-by-play for the St. Louis Cardinals , Chicago White Sox , and most famously the Chicago Cubs ; Cubs win! Cubs win!
Tucker Carlson - television host and conservative political commentator
Matt Casamassina - video game journalist working for IGN
Danny Casolaro - freelance journalist
Igor Cassini - journalist
Chris Cimino - co-host of Today in New York on WNBC , the NBC affiliate in New York City
Kellyanne Conway - president and CEO of The Polling Company Inc./Woman Trend, and has been a political commentator on CNN , Fox News , and Fox Business
Anthony Cumia - "Anthony" of the Opie and Anthony show
Rick Francona - NBC military analyst
Michael Gargiulo - co-host of Today in New York on WNBC , the NBC affiliate in New York City
John Iadarola - progressive political commentator for The Young Turks
Megyn Kelly - Fox News Channel political commentator and former corporate defense attorney
Charlotte Laws - author, columnist, political commentator, former politician, animal rights advocate, anti-revenge porn activist (known as the "Erin Brockovich of revenge porn")
Anthony Fantano - music critic and founder of The Needle Drop, a music related video blog
Al Giordano - political commentator, and former anti-nuclear and environmental activist
Steve Lopez - journalist; a columnist for the Los Angeles Times since 2001; the son of Spanish and Italian immigrants
Rob Marciano - journalist and meteorologist
Ann Nocenti - journalist, writer and editor, known for her work on comic books and magazines
Alexandra Pelosi - journalist, documentary filmmaker, and writer; daughter of Nancy Pelosi and Paul Pelosi
Dana Perino - political commentator and author who served as the 26th White House Press Secretary , serving under President George W. Bush
Generoso Pope Jr. (1927–1988) - founder of the National Enquirer
Tony Rizzo - sports anchor with WJW-TV , the Fox affiliate in Cleveland
Allison Rosati - WMAQ-TV nightly anchor, maternal Italian ancestry
Rick Santelli (born 1956) - editor for the CNBC Business News network
Peter Santenello (born 1977) - videomaker, traveler, and entrepreneur who produces videos about travel and human stories
Lauren Scala - co-host of Today in New York on WNBC , the NBC affiliate in New York City
Elaine Sciolino - Paris bureau chief of The New York Times
Karley Sciortino - writer, television host, and producer
Carla Sinclair - editor-in-chief at Craft O'Reilly Media
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Sgt. John Basilone - USMC , Medal of Honor recipient of World War II
Major John Belli - Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army 1792–1794
Corporal Anthony Casamento - USMC , Medal of Honor recipient of World War II
Christopher G. Cavoli - commander of United States European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Lieutenant General Peter W. Chiarelli
Lieutenant General Joseph P. DiSalvo - Military Deputy Commander of United States Southern Command
General Curtis Scaparrotti , Commander of United States European Command
Col. Luigi Palma di Cesnola - Civil War Union Cavalry officer, and Medal of Honor recipient
Lt Col Rick Francona - U S Air Force officer
Major Don Gentile (Dominic Salvatore Gentile) (1920–1951) - US Air Force officer
Bancroft Gherardi - rear admiral of the US Navy, who served during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. The first Italian-American admiral in the US Navy.
Edmund P. Giambastiani - Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Giovanni Martini - trumpeter; only member of Custer's army to leave the site of the Battle of the Little Big Horn alive
General Raymond T. Odierno - incumbent Chief of Staff of the United States Army
Peter Pace - USMC , Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Antonio Pierro - lived to be one of the oldest surviving veterans of World War I
Joseph L. Romano
Vito Trause - World War II prisoner of war
Walter Schirra - naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury
Maj. Gen. Francis D. Vavala - Adjutant General, Delaware Army National Guard
Humbert Roque Versace - United States Army officer and POW in Vietnam
Gen. Anthony Zinni - USMC , former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)
Politicians
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Members of Congress
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Diplomats
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Peter F. Secchia - U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1989–1993
John J. Maresca - U.S. Ambassador, United States Delegation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1992–1994
Richard F. Celeste - U.S. Ambassador to India, 1997–2001
Thomas M. Foglietta - U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1997–2001
Paul Cellucci - U.S. Ambassador to Canada, 2001–2005
Paul A. Trivelli - U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua, 2005–2008
Joseph A. Mussomeli - U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines ; Ambassador to Cambodia , 2005–2008;
Ronald P. Spogli - U.S. Ambassador to Italy and first U.S. Ambassador to San Marino , 2005–2009
Peter Cianchette - U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica , 2008–2009
Luigi R. Einaudi - acting Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS)
Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr. - U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines and Republic of Palau , 2002–2005; Ambassador to Egypt , 2005–2008; and Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan , 2009–2010
Linda S. Taglialatela - U.S. Ambassador to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean and the OECS since 2016
Claire A. Pierangelo - U.S. Ambassador to Madagascar and Comoros since 2022
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Hugh Addonizio (1914–1981) - Mayor of Newark, New Jersey , 1962–1970
Joseph Alioto (1916–1998) - Mayor of San Francisco, 1968–1976
Thomas L. J. D'Alesandro, Jr. (1903–1987) - Mayor of Baltimore , Maryland, 1947–1959; prior to being mayor, he was a representative from Maryland's 3rd congressional district (1939–47); father of U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi
Luigi Boria (born 1958) - Mayor of Doral, Florida , 2012–2016
Richard Caliguiri (1931–1988) - Mayor of Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, 1978–1988
Anthony Celebrezze (1910–1998) - Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio , 1953–1962
Vincent Cianci, Jr (1941–2016) - Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island , 1975–1984 and 1991–2002
David Cicilline (born 1961) - Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, 2003–2011; Jewish mother
Bill de Blasio (born 1961) - Mayor of New York City , 2014–2022
John DeStefano, Jr. (born 1955) - Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut , 1994–2014
Frank Fasi (1920–2010) - Mayor of Honolulu , Hawaii, 1969–1981 and 1984–1994
Eric Garcetti (born 1971) - Mayor of Los Angeles, California , 2013–2022
Philip Giordano (born 1963) - Mayor of Waterbury , Connecticut, 1995–2001 when was arrested for municipal corruption and convicted of sex offender.
Rudolph Giuliani (born 1944) - Mayor of New York City , 1994–2001[3]
Dick A. Greco (born 1933) - Mayor of Tampa , Florida, 1967–1974 and 1995–2003
Pam Iorio (born 1959) - Mayor of Tampa, Florida , 2003–2011
Vincent R. Impellitteri (1900–1987) - Mayor of New York City, 1950–1953
Fiorello La Guardia (1882–1947) - Mayor of New York City, 1934–1945; both parents Italian-born; father lapsed Catholic; mother Jewish
Mitch Landrieu (born 1960) - Mayor of New Orleans , 2010–2018
Anthony M. Masiello (born 1947) - Mayor of Buffalo, New York , 1994–2005
Thomas Menino (1942–2014) - Mayor of Boston , Massachusetts, 1993–2014
Robert Maestri (1899–1974) - Mayor of New Orleans , Louisiana, 1936–1946
George Moscone (1929–1978) - Mayor of San Francisco, 1976–1978
Joseph R. Paolino Jr. (born 1955) - 33rd Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island
Frank Rizzo (1920–1991) - Mayor of Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, 1972–1980
Angelo Rossi (1878–1948) - Mayor of San Francisco, 1931–1944
Victor Schiro (1904–1992) - Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, 1961–1970
Frank A. Sedita (1907–1975) - Mayor of Buffalo, New York , 1958–1961, 1966–1973
Reed Gusciora (born 1960) - Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey , since 2018
Other
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Cardinals
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Scientists
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Academics
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Sports
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Writers
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Kim Addonizio - poet and novelist
Maria Arena Bell - novelist, television and freelance writer
Paul Attanasio - screenwriter
Ken Auletta - writer/journalist and media critic for The New Yorker
David Baldacci (born 1960) - best-selling novelist; a distant cousin of John Baldacci , former governor of Maine
Andrew Berardini - art critic and fiction writer
Greg Berlanti - television writer and producer
Giannina Braschi - poet and novelist
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) - author and motivational speaker
Christopher Castellani - novelist
Nick Cafardo (1956–2019) - sportswriter
Duane Capizzi - screenwriter
Lorenzo Carcaterra - novelist and screenwriter
Christopher Carosa (born 1960) - author, journalist, and investment adviser
John Ciardi - poet and etymologist
Diablo Cody - screenwriter, producer, author, journalist, memoirist, stripper and exotic dancer
Bob Colacello - writer
Angelo F. Coniglio - civil engineer, genealogist and author
Gregory Corso - poet
Wendy Corsi Staub - novelist
John Corvino - philosopher
Lorenzo Da Ponte - poet, writer, librettist
William L. DeAndrea - mystery writer
Keith R. A. DeCandido
Frank De Felitta - author
Don DeLillo (born 1936) - author
Guy Anthony De Marco - author
Tomie dePaola - author
Louise DeSalvo - writer, editor, professor, and lecturer
Pietro Di Donato - writer
Janine di Giovanni - author, journalist and war correspondent
John Fante - novelist and screenwriter
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - poet, essayist and painter
David Franzoni - screenwriter of Gladiator King Arthur
John Fusco - novelist (Paradise Salvage) and screenwriter of Young Guns, Hidalgo, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Paul Gallico - Italian father
Daniela Gioseffi (born 1941) - poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, performer, social justice activist
Arturo Giovannitti - poet, political activist
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1934–2002) - writer
Evan Hunter - aka Ed MacBain, born Salvatore Lombino
Philip Lamantia
Teresa de Lauretis
Luis Marden - born Annibale Luis Paragallo, writer for National Geographic
Fulvio Melia - author of several popular science books, including The Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy
Charles Messina - writer/director of the play Mercury: The Afterlife and Times of a Rock God Merging , and co-author the book My Father, My Don
Henry Samuel Morais - writer, rabbi
Diana Ossana - Academy Award-winning screenwriter
Camille Paglia - post-feminist literary and cultural critic
Christopher Paolini
Michael Parenti
P.M. Pasinetti - novelist, playwright, journalist, professor
Mario Pei
Tom Perrotta - novelist and screenwriter best known for the novels Election (1998) and Little Children (2004)[4] [5] [6] [7]
Nicholas Pileggi (born 1933) - writer, producer and screenwriter. He wrote the non-fiction book Wiseguy and co-wrote the screenplay for Goodfellas
Joseph D. Pistone
Diane di Prima - poet of the Beat generation
Mario Puzo (1920–1999) - writer/screenwriter and best-selling author of The Godfather
Marco Rafalà - first-generation descendant of immigrants from Melilli , Sicily. He is the author of the novel, How Fires End , a work of historical fiction set in World War II Sicily and 1980s America .
Terry Rossio - screenwriter
Shane Salerno - screenwriter
R.A. Salvatore (born 1959) - born Robert Anthony Salvatore, science fiction and fantasy author, best known for his Forgotten Realms Star Wars
Leslie Scalapino - poet
Piero Scaruffi - poet, historian, scientist
Dom (Domenico) Serafini - TV trade magazine editor
Michelangelo Signorile - journalist, columnist, talk radio host and gay activist
Michael Smerconish - radio host and television presenter, newspaper columnist, author, and lawyer
Gay Talese
Adriana Trigiani
Jessica Valenti - blogger and feminist writer
Mark Valenti - screenwriter[8]
Tom Verducci - sportswriter
Luisa Weiss - food writer
Rebecca Zanetti - bestselling author of paranormal romance, contemporary romance, and romantic suspense
Italian Americans who were first in their field of achievement
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Italian Americans not otherwise categorized
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Emile Ardolino - dancer and choreographer
Donald P. Bellisario - director, former civil uniform service
Elizabeth Anne Bisceglia - American murderer; father was of Italian ancestry
Marella Agnelli - furniture designer
Luigi Antonini - labor leader
Noah D'castellano - Italian American actor-model and businessperson [9]
Chris Avellone - video game designer
Frances Xavier Cabrini - Catholic religious sister, first U.S. citizen to be canonized a saint by the Catholic Church
Alyssa Campanella - fashion blogger, model, and beauty pageant titleholder
Oleg Cassini - Russian-Italian-American fashion designer
Andrew Cunanan - mass murderer; mother is of Italian background
Charli D'Amelio - TikTok personality
Dixie D'Amelio - TikTok personality
Emily DiDonato - model of Italian, Irish, and Native American ancestry[10]
Ralph DiGia - pacifist and social justice activist
Tabitha D'umo - choreographer and creative director
Angelo Dundee - trainer of several boxing champions
Elizabeth Edwards - born Anania, wife of John Edwards, former U.S. Senator from North Carolina
Anthony Fantano - music critic and internet personality of Sicilian descent
Vincenzo Ferdinandi - fashion stylist
Vanessa Hessler - model and actress[11]
Ernest Ingenito - mass shooter
Olivia Jade - social media celebrity and YouTuber
Stacy London - stylist and fashion consultant
Jay Manuel - make-up artist
Sabato Morais - rabbi leader of Mikveh Israel Synagogue, pioneer of Italian Jewish Studies in America, and founder of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City
Bruno Pauletto - physiologist, shot putter, businessman, coach, author
Bucky Pizzarelli - jazz guitarist. He was the father of guitarist John Pizzarelli and double bassist Martin Pizzarelli .
Mike Pompeo - politician, former Central Intelligence Agency director and 70th United States Secretary of State
Charles Ponzi (1882–1949) - one of the greatest swindlers in American history; inventor of the Ponzi scheme
Carrie Prejean - model, author, former Miss California USA 2009 and Miss USA 2009 first runner-up[12]
Angela Carlozzi Rossi - executive secretary of the Italian Welfare League
Peter Santenello - videomaker, traveler, and entrepreneur who produces videos about travel and human stories
John Scarne - born Orlando Carmelo Scarnecchia, gambling expert and sleight-of-hand card performer
Mary Schiavo - former Inspector General of the United States Department of Transportation
Michael Schiavo - ex-husband of Terri Schiavo , the woman whose comatose state and subsequent court case garnered much media attention
Christian Siriano - fashion designer from New York
Milton Sirotta - at age nine coined the term googol
Michael Smerconish - CNN journalist
Carmela Teoli - 14-year-old mill worker whose Congressional testimony helped end the 1912 Lawrence textile strike
Jack Valenti - of Sicilian heritage, president of the Motion Picture Association of America from 1966 to 2007
Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann - fashion model, and socialite[13]
See also
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References
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^ Danzico, Elizabeth. "AIGA: Louise Fili" . aiga.org . American Institute of Graphic Arts. Archived from the original on August 8, 2020. Retrieved September 16, 2014 . Fili, who grew up in an Italian-American household in New Jersey, remembers carving letterforms into the wall above her bed at age three or four: Even then, she simply loved making letters.
^ "Pioneers of the Medical Device Industry" . Minnesota Historical Society.
^ [1 ] "A grandson of Italian immigrants".
^ Crace, John (February 21, 2009). "A life in writing: Tom Perrotta" . The Guardian . Retrieved September 29, 2013 . He was born in 1961 in Newark, where he spent his entire childhood. His father was an Italian immigrant postal worker, his mother an Albanian-Italian – "that made her a second-class Italian" – secretary.
^ Rich, Motoko. "A Writer's Search for the Sex in Abstinence" , The New York Times , 2007-10-14. Retrieved on 2007-10-20.
^ Fiamma, Florinda (March 1, 2012). "Tom Perrotta at the end of real life in the new novel of a cult author" . L'Uomo Vogue . Retrieved September 29, 2013 . My paternal grandparents were Italian immigrants from a village near Avellino. I grew up hearing them and my dad talk Italian. My mother's relatives were Albanians, but they, too, lived in Italy before emigrating to the States.
^ Shanahan, Mark. "Adaptation: Tom Perrotta is growing accustomed to seeing his books on the big screen" , The Boston Globe , 2006-10-18. Retrieved on 2007-07-04.
^ "Mark Valenti" . IMDb . Retrieved May 18, 2018 .
^ Johnson, Karen (May 28, 2024). "Noah D'castellano Italian American actor-model Via British GQ magazine a brief review about his career" . Karen Johnson news .
^ Wohlrab, Spencer (February 17, 2012). "Maybelline's New Face: Emily DiDonato" . Stylecaster.com. Retrieved February 21, 2012 .
^ Henderson, Susan. "Vanessa Hessler" . www.mymovies.it . Retrieved October 29, 2020 .
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