Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
8/1/1930
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Also Known As
Julia Anne Bovasso
Julie Bovasso
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
Willie & Phil
as Mrs. D'Amico
Staying Alive
as Mrs. Manero
Article 99
as Amelia Sturdeyvant
Saturday Night Fever
as Flo
King Crab
as Mrs. Campana
Wise Guys
as Lil Dickstein
Daniel
as Frieda Stein
Doubletake
as Lou DiMona
Betsy's Wedding
as Grandma
Hot Paint
Unknown Role
My Blue Heaven
as Vinnie's Mother
Moonstruck
as Rita Cappomaggi
A Time to Triumph
Unknown Role
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
as Ramona
The Last Tenant
as Marie
Just Me and You
as Waitress
Off Beat
as Mrs. Wareham
The Verdict
as Maureen Rooney
Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
as Self (archival footage)
The Iceman Cometh
as Pearl