Vanna Bonta
Vanna Bonta is a novelist, poet and film actress best known as the author of Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (Meridian House 1996), the story set in parallel dimensions featuring multiverse adventures of an amnesiac girl with no navel.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Bonta is also known for collections of award-winning poetry as well as for a cameo role as Zed's queen, the hero's young mother, in the fantasy movie The Beastmaster.
She is also the inventor of the 2suit.[7] [8][9][10][11]
A portrait of her as a young girl was drawn by Florentine artist Pietro Annigoni.[12]
She was a model of Woman for the Frederick Hart work "Ex Nihilo" (Out of Nothing), the tympana on the west front entrance of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington D.C.[13]
Bonta appeared in The Universe Season 3 Episode 4 "Sex in Space" and talked about how her 2suit could be used to achieve intimacy in microgravity toward the colonization of other planets. The History Channel documentary filmed her testing the 2suit in weightlessness, which marked Bonta's second zero gravity flight.[14] [15] She is an advocate with The Space Frontier Foundation.
She is the daughter of an Italian fine-arts painter and American military officer, and the granddaughter of Luigi Ugolini.[16]
Bonta wrote an undeveloped story, "Somewhen", for the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.[17] [18] She is credited with numerous roles as a voice actor in feature films, such as Beauty and the Beast (Disney). [19] She was the computer voice in the movie Demolition Man.
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[edit] Published works
- Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (December 1995)
- Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (September 1989)
- Shades Of The World (September 1985) poetry collection
- Rewards of Passion (November 1981)
[edit] Selected Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Dante's Inferno Documented | Speaker: 6th Circle – The Heretics | |
| 1993 | Hocus Pocus | French teacher | (voice) |
| 2008 | The Universe | Herself / Inventor | History Channel documentary |
| 1993 | Demolition Man | Computer | (voice) |
| 2005 | What Goes Up | Pianist / Zero G Flyer | |
| 2004 | Born to Fight | Mali | (voice: English version) |
| 2003 | Something's Gotta Give | ER Nurse | (voice) |
| 1991 | An American Tail: Feivel Goes West | (voice) | |
| 1991 | Where Sleeping Dogs Lie | Serena's Secretary | |
| 1982 | Time Walker | Student in Lab | |
| 1982 | The Beastmaster | Zed's Wife | |
| 1991 | Beauty and the Beast | (voice) | |
| 1990 | The Rescuers Down Under | (voice) | |
| 2002 | The Twilight Zone | (voice) | (TV series) |
| 1994 | Armed and Innocent | Candy | (TV movie) |
| 1986 | Scarecrow and Mrs. King | Lead Actress in Play | (TV series) |
| 1985 | My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn | Blue Moon Waitress | (TV movie) |
| 1982 | CHiPs | Secretary | (TV series) |
[edit] References
- ^ Flight: a quantum fiction novel, by Vanna Bonta; book reviews
- ^ Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel Audiogeist; February 11, 2008
- ^ Quantum Fiction quando la quantistica detta le leggi della scrittura, by Maria Zuppello; Panorama Mondadori, January 16, 2008
- ^ Fiight, by Vanna Bonta Blog Critics; May 06, 2008
- ^ Novel melds reality, fantasy by Kyle Z. Bell, 1996
- ^ Flight quantum fiction and alternate realities A Gaggle of Book Reviews; January 28, 2008
- ^ Is Newt's zero-gravity sex idea any good? by Uri Friedman, Foreign Policy; January 26, 2012
- ^ Beyond a First Kiss for Humankind: Vanna Bonta Space Suit Zimbio; November 17, 2011
- ^ Inventors Digest, May 2009; Issue 25, Vol. 5
- ^ American Chronicle – May 02, 2009; Vanna Bonta Does Inventor's Digest: New Meaning To Beautiful
- ^ Outer-space sex carries complications by Alan Boyle, Science editor; MSNBC News, July 24, 2006
- ^ Pietro Annigoni biography imdb
- ^ And God Created ... Vanna Bonta! Waleg Celebrities; February 17, 2012
- ^ The Universe: Sex in Space Marks New Era For Mankind? Now Public (December 1, 2008)
- ^ History Channel: The Universe: Sex in Space
- ^ Space Foundation Gives Nod To Poetry Huliq News; August 2, 2008
- ^ Untold Tales of the Next Generation Schuster & Schuster 1989; ISBN# 1-55698-215-1
- ^ Undeveloped Star Trek episodes
- ^ Vanna Bonta filmography Fandango
- Space: What love's got to do with it The Space Review (Oct. 24, 2004)
- The Impact of Space Activities on Society ESA
- Waleg Celebrities News Archive
- Get Out of This World The Japan Times (January 14, 2007)
- Bonta's video "What Goes Up"
[edit] External links
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- Vanna Bonta at the Internet Movie Database
- Vanna Bonta at AllRovi
