Anna Melato (born 18 May 1952) is an Italian actress, singer and voice actor. She is best known for singing and acting in Lina Wertmüller's Love and Anarchy (1973), where she sang Nino Rota's "Canzone arrabbiata"[1] and "El Tunin".
In the 1970s, Melato performed as a singer at popular music variety shows and festivals, including Canzonissima (1973), Sanremo Music Festival 1974 and Festivalbar (1975). She released two LPs of pop music, Domenica mattina (Dischi Ricordi, 1974) and Ritratto (RCA Italiana, 1977) and played in Sergio Citti's Beach House (1977) and Happy Hobos (1979).
In the 1980s and 1990s Melato played a role in other Italian films, including Pupi Avati's Help Me Dream (1981), Carlo Vanzina's Eccezzziunale... veramente (1982) and Wilma Labate's My Generation (1996). From 1985 onwards, she began to work more frequently in the television field and had roles in TV series such as Mai per amore (2012), A Good Season (2014), La dama velata (2015) and La porta rossa (2nd season, 2019). In 2001 she acted in Mimmo Raimondi's film Without Filter.
Melato is the sister of Mariangela Melato. She currently resides in Rome, Italy.
