[1] She made her debut at the age of four in the film Il Dottor Antonio.

In 1978, she founded the theatre company L'albero alongside Gigi Angelillo.

In 2008, she won the best theatre actress prize from the Associazione Nazionale Critici di Teatro.

Modugno was the sister of actor and radio host Paolo Modugno [it] and the wife of actor and director Gigi Angelillo.

[3] Modugno died in Rome on 26 October 2021, at the age of 72, due to complications from an illness that struck her in June.