title: Federica Ranchi
text: # Federica Ranchi
  
  Federica Ranchi (born 5 May 1939) is an Italian former film actress.
  
  ## Life and career
  
  Born in Trieste, while a student at liceo linguistico was noted by a Cines employee through a picture of her ballet company, and subsequently won an audition for the Leonardo De Mitri's comedy-drama Wives and Obscurities.
  
  Typically cast in roles of sensitive and fragile women, following several roles with auteurs such as Valerio Zurlini and Gillo Pontecorvo and in some genre films, in 1963 Ranchi married a Greek shipowner and eventually retired from showbusiness, even refusing a five-year contract with Dino De Laurentiis.
  
  She is the grandmother of actress and fitness model Flavia Sgoifo.
  
  ## Selected filmography
  
  * Wives and Obscurities (1956)
  * The Wide Blue Road (1957)
  * Devil's Cavaliers (1959)
  * Estate Violenta (1959)
  * Son of Samson (1960)
  * Goliath and the Dragon (1960)
  * Women of Devil's Island (1962)
  