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Known for "Youth".

In 1999 she made her film debut in The Man-Eater (1999) directed by Aurelio Grimaldi, in which she performs several explicit and unsimulated sex acts.

In 2003 she directed the documentary Insurgentes about the Mexican Revolution, and in 2006, she directed another documentary about the Zapatists.

She was cast in the 2005-2006 Italian edition of Strictly Come Dancing.

She started early on to play leading roles in several stage plays, some of which based on works by Luigi Pirandello (Liolà), Euripides (The Trojan Women) and Arthur Schnitzler (La Ronde).

, Cannata is president of "Sesto Sole" (6th Sun), an Italian charity organization that provides health related help to the indigenous population of the Chiapas.

Cannata studied acting while growing up in her native Sicily.