Federica Federici (born 22 June 1972 in Umbertide, Umbria), better known by her stage name Isabelle Adriani, is an Italian actress, producer, journalist, singer and author.

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Isabelle has a Phd in History. She has starred in more than 30 movies all over the world. She just finished shooting The Youngh messiah (former title :Christ The Lord):'[1]' directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh with Sean Bean where she played beautiful dancer 'Seleni'. She played 'Esmeralda' in Reclaim directed by Alan White with John Cusack, the journalist in Come to the World with Penelope Cruz, and the hooker in The American with George Clooney. She also worked in two movies directed by Pupi Avati she was Marcella Vanarini first love of the lead Cesare Cremonini of 'The Big Heart of Girls' and 'Nicoletta' in Una sconfinata Giovinezza by Pupi Avati, she was Giuliana Cenerini in 'The First Beautiful Thing', directed by Paolo Virzì and amazing Spanish Mercedes in the film 'What a beautiful day' with Checco Zalone. Russian Svetlana in Boys versus Girls by Fausto Brizzi and Michelle, the French mistress of Nicolas Vaporidisin 'All the love in the world'. She is the romantic journalist Clara in Kissed by luck with Vincenzo Salemme , directed by Paolo Costella . She played the spy Eva in Faccio un salto all'Havana shot in Cuba, with Enrico Brignano. She has also worked in The American directed by Anton Corbjin, in ‘’Dangerous Beauty’’ with Rufus Sewell and in Come to the World by Sergio Castellitto, in Marriage in Paris as herself, and as the journalist in Some say no with Luca Argentero by Giambattista Avellino, in Amore 14 by Federico Moccia , and in Caraibi Last Minute by brothers Vanzina .She starred in Il tempo delle Mimose (2012 ) . In 2012 she starred Milla Jovovich in short ' Future Perfect 'directed by Tara Subkoff
She has played various roles in several TV Series, as in Il Commissario Manara 2for RAIUNO, where she starred as Agnese Mais, the beautiful secretary of the superintendent, in love with Manara ; she was the co-lead Roberta in Capri 3 for RAIUNO and the co-lead Edda in The Champion and The Miss with Luca Argenterofor RAUNO, and in The Island by A. Negrin played the role of deputy prosecutor Cenni and was also the guest star of the latest part of Don Matteo 9 always for RAIUNO. She also played as the charming psychologist Carolina Ferretti in Police District 9and also starred as police woman Anna Lepore with Lino Banfi in 'Il Commissaio Zagaria'for Canale 5 . She is also a professional journalist. She has written articles for La Nazione , Il Messaggero , presented the news and various programs for national channels. She supervised and presented several TV programs of fairy tales C'era una volta for Channel 5 .She wrote and presented for two years (2010-2012) the historic TV Program Accadde oggi, with anecdotes and aphorisms, broadcast every day from Monday to Friday at 9:50 on Channel 5. In 2011 she created and presented the TV program Moviestar about the stars of the entertainment business . She starred in Il tempo delle Mimose (2012). In 2012 she starred with Milla Jovovich in the short FuturePerfect directed by Tara Subkoff

She graduated with a thesis entitled: 'The DNA of Fairy Tale'. She has published eight books under the name Federica Federici : The Blue Butterfly fairy tales, Favole Vere, Princesses of Paper, Cinderella The Legend, The magic of Handicap, The Island of the Sun and the historical novels The Face of Rose and Garden power.
As Isabelle Adriani, she published the historical novel True Story of Cinderella. She is also a dancer, singer, and professional whistler. She can whistle in ‘opera style‘ the most famous ‘arias’ of Puccini and Verdi.
Adriani is also a dubber, she gave her voice to Italian version of Peaches inIce Age 4, of ' Jeanette ' in ' Alvin and the Chipmunks 3 ' where she also sang the song ' Help ' by Rihanna in the Italian version. ' In 2014 Adriani gave her voice to the fairy pirate Zarina lead of the new Disney film : ' Tinkerbell and the Pirate Fairy' '.
After the great success at the last Venice Film Festival in 2014, Isabelle was chosen by director Alan White to play Esmeralda in the film : ' Reclaim ' with John Cusack and Jacki Weaver. Isabelle now lives between Italy and Los Angeles, she is engaged to Count Vittorio Palazzi Trivelli a pilot of GT and Ferrari . The rights of her latest book, The True Story of Cinderella ( a beautiful slave girl marries a pharaoh thanks to a shoe and becomes queen of Egypt 2650 years ago) are now of the American director Tom Shadyac. She was the star of the music video of the song Party Encore by American rapper Jay Kay. In 2014 Isabelle Adriani is on tour with the thetatre play: u name is Nobody the latest version of the Odessy of Valerio Massio Manfredi taken from his book edited by Mondadori, where she plays 6 different roles: all women of Ulysses : Helen, Penelope, Kirke, Calypso, nausicaa and the goddess Athena. In 2014 Isabelle Adriani wrote and starred in Open Quantum Relativity , a short film about the new theory on the time machine, in collaboration with physicians Giuseppe Basini and Salvatore Capozziello. The film was presented at the 71st Venice Film Festival in Venice. Isabelle just starred as Seleni in Cyrus Nowrasteh's latest movie: Christ The Lord to be released all over the world, next year.