Alessia Barela

Alessia Barela (born 13 June 1974) is an Italian actress. Her credits include the television series Carlo & Malik, Tutti pazzi per amore and Inspector Rex and the films Past Perfect, Summer Games and Maximum Velocity (V-Max). Early life and career Barela was born in Chieti in southern Italy to a Spanish father and an Italian mother and grew up between Salerno and Madrid. She attended a liceo linguistico high school in Rome with a focus on theater and entertainment. She studied acting with Marisa Fabbri and Carlo Merlo and, for two years, at a school operated by Beatrice Bracco and Francesca De Sapio. Later, she had an internship with Dominique De Fazio and attended the theater school at the MTM (Manifatture Teatrali Milanesi). She also took singing lessons from tenor Gianluca Terranova.