Giulia Stabile was born in Genoa, Italy and grew up idolizing the works of Balanchine. She studied ballet and also took part in the theater and opera, but when it came to joining the professional circuit she had many difficulties due to her height. Considered too tall by many dancers, Giulia made the decision to focus on her acting skills and pursued her acting course at Cassatt University in Venice, Italy. Once she graduated in 1984, she quickly discovered her love for acting which she attributes to her meeting her role model in Gertrude Stein. After her course she appeared in the popular musical “Cabaret” as an adult and then went on to play the lead role in the award winning film “oser”.
Giulia is an artist and choreographer by nature with many of her works having been seen around the world. Her acting career spanned four decades with the first of these roles coming in the popular television show “Law and Order: The Edition Collection”, where she played the cynical and slightly paranoid Trudy Catalano. With an infectious smile, Giulia Stabile has finally been one of those actors who has achieved worldwide recognition in her role as Coraline’s lonely but hopeful girlfriend, Coraline herself. After a string of movies in which she appeared alongside Guy Pierce, Giulia became one of only two female actors to have two movies in the top ten at the same time. Now the forty-year-old actress is back with a third Coraline film, The Caves of Altamira, to be released in UK cinemas later this year.
As well as playing Coraline’s friend, The Caves of Altamira sees Giulia playing a much more traditional role as the glamorous yet dangerous Gypsy ballerina professionista, Pia Valjoux. This new film is another example of Coraline being treated as a period piece, with a larger emphasis on story than the cartoonish oddities that dominated the show in the past. And as if that wasn’t enough, Valjoux is also joined by the returning voiced character, voiced by Belinda Day. Together, the three of them are creating a lead role, which manages to combine the beauty of day-time Italian fashion with a little bit of the wild and crazy side of the Balearic Islands.