Vanna Bonta
Vanna Bonta | |
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Bonta (left) with her husband Allen Newcomb in 2008 | |
| Born | 3 April 1953 Clarksville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Died | 8 July 2014 (aged 61) |
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| Language | English, Italian |
| Genre | Fiction, poetry, essay, philosophical literature, social commentary, teleplay |
| Literary movement | Quantum fiction |
| Notable works | Flight: a quantum fiction novel |
| Relatives | Luigi Ugolini (grandfather) |
Vanna Marie Bonta (April 3, 1953 – July 8, 2014) was an American writer, actress, and inventor. She was of partial Italian descent. She wrote Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel. As an actress, Bonta played "Zed's Queen" in The Beastmaster. She performed primarily as a voice talent on a roster of feature films, such as Disney's Beauty and the Beast, as well as on television. Bonta invented the 2suit, a flight garment designed to facilitate sex in microgravity environments of outerspace. The spacesuit was featured on The Universe television series, which followed Bonta into zero gravity to film an episode titled Sex in Space that aired in 2009 on the History Channel.
On 13 November 2013, a haiku by Bonta was one of 1,100 haiku launched from Cape Canaveral on the NASA spacecraft MAVEN to Mars.