Actress. Born Luigia Manfrini Farné, equipped with an extraordinary dramatic temperament, after some theatrical experiences with the companies of Ruggero Ruggeri and Paola Borboni, she made her debut on the big screen with the film "Freccia d'oro" in 1935, directed by Corrado D'Errico. With the stage name of Luisa Ferida, she soon stands out by interpreting numerous films by minor directors, which will however give her great visibility and success among the public. Between 1937 and 1938 she forms a successful couple with the actor Amedeo Nazzari, with whom she plays "La fossa degli angeli", "I fratelli Castiglioni" and "Il conte di Brechard". When Luisa Ferida is called by Alessandro Blasetti for the film "Un'avventura di Salvator Rosa" (1939), she was already a well-known and appreciated young actress, now ready for the leap in quality. In this last film she plays the role of the farmer Lucrezia with skill, earning critical praise. Blasetti's film quickly projects Luisa Ferida into the Olympus of the divas of the time, allowing her to highlight her temperament and determination as actress, different from the emphasis that characterizes her colleagues of the time. On the set of this film she meets the actor Osvaldo Valenti with whom she enters into a romantic relationship. A rain of requests began to arrive from all the most popular and well-known directors of the period. In the last years of her short career, Luisa Ferida proves to be an actress of great depth and interpretative sensitivity. Among her great interpretations are those in the films "La corona di ferro" (1941) by Blasetti, "Fedora" (1942) by Camillo Mastrocinque, "Fari nella Nebbia" (1942) by Gianni Franciolini, for which she was awarded as best Italian actress of 1942, "Gelosia" (1942) by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli and "La bella addormentata" (1942) by Luigi Chiarini. In 1944 she moved to Venice with her partner Osvaldo Valenti to work at the Cinevillaggio, the cinematographic center of the newly established Italian Social Republic. Ferida and Valenti are among the few movie stars to agree to leave Cinecittà for Venice, following the collapse of the fascist regime. After a summary trial in which she was accused of collaborationism and above all of having tortured some partisans imprisoned at Villa Triste in Milan, pregnant with a child (she had a son, Kim, together with Osvaldo Valenti, but died shortly after birth) and only 31 years of age, Luisa Ferida was killed by the partisans at the San Siro Hippodrome in Milan together with her partner on April 30, 1945. The couple of the cinema pays with their lives the notoriety associated with the fascist regime. After their death, the Milanese house of Valenti and Ferida is burgled, what is stolen is an authentic treasure which will be forever lost traces. In the 1950s, Ferida's mother applied to the Department of the Treasury for a war pension, her daughter being her only source of income. On that occasion it was necessary careful investigation by the Carabinieri of Milan is necessary to ascertain the responsibilities of Ferida. At the end of the investigation it is concluded that the actress had remained extraneous to the political events of the time and was not guilty of any act of terrorism or violence to the detriment of the Italian population and the partisan movement. Her mother will thus obtain the war pension including the arrears. In 2008, director Marco Tullio Giordana presented out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival the film "Sanguepazzo" inspired by the story of the couple Osvaldo Valenti (played by Luca Zingaretti) and Luisa Ferida (played by Monica Bellucci).