Annabella Incontrera

{{Short description|Italian film and television actress (1943–2004)}}

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Annabella Incontrera (11 June 1943 – 19 September 2004), sometimes credited as Pam Stevenson, was an Italian film and television actress.

Career

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Born in Milan, Italy, Incontrera attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia without finishing the course.{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi|title=Le attrici|publisher=Gremese, 2003|isbn=88-8440-214-X}} She made her film debut at 16, in Love Now, Pay Later (L'inferno addosso, 1959), and appeared in about 40 films, mostly in secondary roles.

Personal life

In 1969, she married Guglielmo Biraghi, film critic for the newspaper Il Messaggero, but they divorced a few years later.

She was romantically involved with the married British Labour Party politician Geoffrey Robinson, who in the 1970s was a businessman in charge of the Italian offshoot of British Leyland, and reputedly introduced to his colleagues as 'Signora Robinson'.{{cite news|last=Bower|first=Tom|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/oct/31/firstchapters.reviews1|title=The Paymaster by Tom Bower (II): The Butterfly|work=The Guardian|date=31 October 2001|access-date=May 18, 2019}}

The actress suffered from a severe form of osteoporosis for years, and was forced to use a wheelchair.{{cite web|title=Scandalo rosa made in Italy per un sottosegretario di Blair|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1998/04/20/scandalo-rosa-made-in-italy-per-un.html|work=La Repubblica|accessdate=1 January 2012|date=20 April 1998}}

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