Valentina Gaia was born in Bra, a wonderful place in Piemonte. After graduating in Territorial, Urban and Environmental Planning in Venice, she moved to Rome where she worked for years as an actress, mainly in theater and advertising but with some cinema appearances (Workers – Pronti a Tutto, Caos Calmo, Scusa Se Ti Chiamo Amore) and in TV series (1992/3/4, Ris6, Benvenuti a Tavola2, I Liceali, Taglia e Cuci). For years he has been staging a show in theaters and schools in which he is the protagonist, interpreting the life of Temple Grandin, an exceptional autistic woman, for the Spazio Asperger Onlus in Rome.
Ph. Valentina Sommariva
She followed the Corso di Sceneggiatura Rai Script and wrote some episodes of TV series (La Squadra, Camera Cafè). Together with Stefano Sardo, he wrote the story and the screenplay of Una Relazione directed by Sardo, produced by Nightswim, Ascent and Amazon. Una Relazione is also the novel they released for Harper Collins Italia.
She is the author and performer of songs that have been part of films and TV series. Her song “How Long I’Ve Loved You?” became part of the soundtrack of the film The Invisible Boy by Gabriele Salvatores and of the TV series Everything Can Happen.
She signed the original soundtrack of the movie Una relazione and of the documentary Ferrante Fever by Giacomo Durzi, both signed together with Andrea Bergesio and in 2020 her first album, Picnic To Club, was released for the Inri Torino label.
For some years, Valentina has been making her skills available to support the careers of young authors that she represents in her job as an agent, after 4 years as Valentina Conti’s assistant at Twelve.