“[…]fine job with this dialogue as well as with longer exchanges that call for a range of emotions and varying levels of vulnerability. Francesca
Ravera’s Beth is intense and fiery with a bruised heart and a real desire for connections.”
-Hi! Drama, on “The way we get by”
Francesca Ravera is a New York based, award-winning actress, model and voiceover artist working in theatre, film, TV, voiceovers and commercials.
Francesca starred in Federico Alotto’s feature film Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey, in Tamara Hansen’s sci-fi Osiris, in Kaya Tone’s Creature of the Night, and she played the lead in Claire, a dramatic short film produced by ADRAMA.
She was also delighted to recently star in Anna Maria Talaimo’s Greencard, and in Tamara Hansen’s drama Windows to Nowhere.
Her New York stage credits include leads in Taxi Tales, Rules of Love, A Thousand Clowns, Two Rooms, North of Providence, The Nina Variations, Endings. She starred also in The Way We Get By, which, after a successful run at Urban Stages Theatre, toured in Europe. She recently played the lead in NYC premiere of Lucia Frangione’s Espresso, directed by Kim T. Sharp, at Urban Stages Theatre.
“If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.”
- Sanford Meisner
Originally from Italy, where she acted in theater, Francesca Ravera moved to New York to fully devote herself to acting, and completed her training at The Neighborhood Playhouse and The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.
Very physically active, this young dentist-turned actor loves running, ice skating, swimming, jazz and modern dance, pilates and yoga.
Francesca has articles written about her on Italy’s top newspapers including Corriere della Sera, La Stampa, La Repubblica, and her work has been extensively reviewed in Italy and in the US.