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Enrica Bonaccorti

Italian radio and television presenter, lyricist, and actress (1949-2026)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ3725558
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Enrica Bonaccorti (18 November 1949 – 12 March 2026) was an Italian television presenter, actress and song lyricist.

Early life

Enrica Bonaccorti was born on 18 November 1949 in Savona, Liguria, to Ettore, a police colonel and former partisan, and Tiziana, a Neapolitan teacher. Bonaccorti spent her adolescence in several cities, including Genoa and Sassari, following her father's professional postings.

Career

Bonaccorti started her career on stage, debuting in the play Alla ringhiera and later joining the stage company held by Domenico Modugno and Paola Quattrini. She also collaborated with Modugno composing the lyrics of several songs, notably Modugno's hits "La lontananza" and "Amara terra mia". During the 1970s she appeared in films and television series.

She debuted as radio presenter in 1974, with the program L'uomo della notte, which she hosted alongside the poet Alfonso Gatto, and as television presenter in 1978 with the quiz show Il sesso forte, which she co-hosted with Michele Gammino. She had the peak of her career between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s, when she hosted the successful quiz shows Pronto, chi gioca? (1985–1987), Cari genitori (1988–1991), and the first season of the variety show Non è la Rai (1991–1992).

Personal life and death

Bonaccorti was an atheist.

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“Enrica Bonaccorti” enters the record as italian radio and television presenter, lyricist, and actress (1949-2026). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Enrica, Bonaccorti and Italian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3725558. VIAF identifies the subject as 152859054. The Library of Congress control number is no2010138042. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1949, 2026, 1974 and 1978.

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This entry incorporates text from Enrica Bonaccorti” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.