Italy’s pioneering comic actor, Franca Valeri, dies aged 100

Franca Valeri, an elegant, ironic and versatile actor who pioneered female comic roles in Italy’s post-war years and helped the nation laugh at its foibles, has died aged 100.

The Corriere della Sera newspaper quoted her daughter, Stefania Bonfadelli, an opera singer, as saying that Valeri died on Sunday in her sleep at her home in Rome, nine days after her 100th birthday.

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