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Mariacarla Boscono (born 20 September 1980) is an Italian Top model and actress. Rose in fame in lately 90s, Boscono walks the runway of major worldwide fashion weeks and festivals, including Milan Fashion Week, New York Fashion Week and Paris Fashion Week , the Met Gala and Venice Film Festival. Boscono was born in Rome, Italy. She spent most of her early life travelling because of her father's work. Her parents lived in Thailand before she was born, but after her mother became pregnant they moved back to Italy. She spent a couple of years there until moving to Providence, Rhode Island and then Key West, Florida. She spent her early school years in the United States, but her parents thought it would be better for Boscono to study in Italy and reconnect with her Italian heritage. This did not last very long though: at 9 years old Boscono and her family moved to Kenya, living in a village between Malindi and Mombasa. Boscono described her years in Kenya as "the most fantastic in her life".
Boscono was discovered at 17, during a dinner with a family friend who happened to be a photographer. The friend and Boscono's mother encouraged her to begin a modeling career, but Boscono chose to finish school first. Soon after graduating high school she flew to New York City, signed with DNA Model Management. Her first runways were in 1997 for Laura Biagiotti and Alberta Ferretti, continuingn later 90s for italian and international stylists like Gai Mattiolo, Rocco Barocco, Fausto Sarli, Paul Smith, Issey Miyake, Vivienne Westwood, Guy Laroche. Boscono was noted by Karl Lagerfeld, becoming one of the favourite models of the stylist. It did not take long for Boscono to rise as an internationally known model, being featured on the cover of Vogue several times and walking in many high fashion runway shows of the first years of 00s for Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, Escada, Gianfranco Ferré, Alessandro Dell'Acqua Michael Kors and Alberta Ferretti.
On 18 May 2006, Boscono made her theater debut as Solange in Jean Genet's "The Maids" at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York. Margherita Missoni played the role of her sister. In 2010 she played the role of Florizer in Imogen Kusch's "Shakespeare's Women" at Colosseum in Rome, while in 2011 she acted in "The Winter's Tale" and "Cymbeline", both by Imogen Kusch.
