Carla Gravina (born 5 August 1941) is an Italian actress and politician.

[1] She received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her role in La Terrazza (1980).

Born in Gemona del Friuli, Gravina made her film debut at fifteen years old in Alberto Lattuada's Guendalina.

[2] Gravina was involved in a long-term relationship with fellow Italian actor Gian Maria Volontè, with whom she had a child.

During her career, Gravina won a number of international awards, including the Best Actress Award for her performance in Alessandro Blasetti's Love and Chatter at the 1958 Locarno Film Festival,[3] the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ettore Scola's La Terrazza at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival,[4] and the award for Best Actress for Margarethe von Trotta's The Long Silence at the 1993 Montreal World Film Festival.