Personal Info
Julia Anne Bovasso
Julie Bovasso
Acting
Biography
Julia Anne Bovasso (August 1, 1930 – September 14, 1991) was an American actress of stage, screen, and television.
Bovasso was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of this borough, the daughter of Angela Mary (née Padovani) and Bernard Michael Bovasso, a teamster. She was Albanian-Italian-American.
She attended The High School of Music & Art in Manhattan.
Bovasso appeared in numerous films, including Saturday Night Fever (1977) as Florence Manero, the mother of John Travolta's character, Tony Manero. She reprised the role in the film's 1983 sequel Staying Al…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
as Self (archival footage)
Article 99
as Amelia Sturdeyvant
My Blue Heaven
as Vinnie's Mother
Betsy's Wedding
as Grandma
Hot Paint
Moonstruck
as Rita Cappomaggi
Wise Guys
as Lil Dickstein
Off Beat
as Mrs. Wareham
A Time to Triumph
Doubletake
as Lou DiMona
