Evelyn Famà


Evelyn Famà is an Italian actress and dancer.

Early life

Evelyn Famà was born in Catania, where she began studying classical, modern, and contemporary dance at the age of five. She later enrolled in the Accademia di belle arti di Catania in the set design department. Her career began as a dancer under the direction of choreographer Silvana Lo Giudice, performing classical ballets such as Giselle, Paquita, and Don Quixote, as well as contemporary dance-theatre adaptations of works by Giovanni Verga, Luigi Pirandello and García Lorca. At eighteen, she was selected to join the Umberto Spadaro Academy of Dramatic Arts of the Teatro Stabile di Catania.

Acting career

After graduating from the Academy, she began working continuously in theatre, film, and television, collaborating with major private national productions and prominent repertory theatres. Her first national tour was Lysistrata by Aristophanes, produced by her city's repertory theatre and the Politecnico of Rome. The day after the tour ended, she earned her degree in Set Design, with a thesis on Pina Baush. In 2001, she won Best Actress at the international Salvo Randone award in Syracuse, standing out among actors and actresses who had graduated from Italy's top theatre academies. Her acting résumé includes renowned directors such as Ronconi, Puggelli, Mirabella, Siani, Di Robilant, Nekrosius, and Coucier.
Among her major theatre tours, she played Hecuba as Polyxena alongside Paola Gassman, and The Trojan Women as Cassandra. Other leading roles on stage include Alda in Tra vestiti che ballano by Rosso di San Secondo, the famous Mirra by Vittorio Alfieri, and the Virtuous Mrs. Perella in The Man, the Beast and the Virtue. In 2004, she won the Hystrio Award for Vocational Promise in Milan.
On television, she played Palmira Frisone in the Rai drama Il Figlio della Luna. On the big screen, she starred in a comic duo with Nino Frassica in the film Un milione di giorni by Emanuele Giliberti. She also starred in the docufiction La Voce del corpo and in Mauro c'ha da fare by Alessandro Di Robilant, alongside Carlo Ferreri.
In 2020, she appeared in The Shameful Story, a documentary film nominated for the 2021 Silver Ribbon Awards, produced by Istituto Luce and broadcast on Rai Storia Watch on RaiPlay. Directed by Nella Condorelli, Famà performs a powerful monologue in the final scene as Provvidenza Rumore, a courageous witness from the Monti Sicani region in 1911, testifying at the trial for the murder of Lorenzo Panepinto.
Since 2007, she has been performing the comic monologue Morir di fama, directed by Carlo Ferreri, portraying a stressed yet ambitious actress obsessed with fame and appearances in a surreal setting. The show has also been staged at the Teatro Cafè Sconcerto in Venice, in collaboration with Zelig. She received several awards for excerpts from this one-woman show, including a special mention at the Premio Calandra and the Premio Rubens.
In October 2009, at the Teatro Nuovo in Turin, she won the XVIII National Cabaret Festival with a unique futurist-style performance focused on gesture, expression, and vocal technique. She also received the Ernst Thole Award for Most Original Interpretation.
In 2019, she voiced Giuseppina in Tufo, an animated documentary inspired by the story of Ignazio Cutrò, a construction entrepreneur who was a victim of mafia racketeering in the province of Agrigento.
Since 2015, together with Tuccio Musumeci he has played Falista in Pipino il Breve by Tony Cucchiara, receiving flattering reviews for "the use of the body and facial expressiveness absolutely out of the ordinary".
In 2025 she starred for Gennaro Nunziante and Angelo Duro in the film I Am the End of the World, in the role of Anna.
She was the testimonial of the commercials for, for the Calcio Catania season ticket campaign in 2008, and for Lidl in 2013 the latter directed by Luca Lucini.

Awards

  • Premio Internazionale Salvo Randone
  • * 2001 - Best Actedss
  • Premio Hystrio
  • * 2004 - To the vocation
  • Premio Ernst Thole al XVIII FNDC
  • * 2009 - Most original interpretation
  • XVIII Festival Nazionale del Cabaret
  • * 2009 - Best interpreter