Veronica Laz?r was a Romanian born Italian actress. She made her debut in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, and also appeared in some of the director's subsequent films, La Luna, The Sheltering Sky, and Besieged. Laz?r is probably best known for her role as the demonic Mater Tenebrarum in Dario Argento's Inferno. Laz?r also appeared in Argento's The Stendhal Syndrome, Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman and Lucio Fulci's The Beyond. She married Italian actor Adolfo Celi in 1966 and had two children with him, director Leonardo Celi and actress Alessandra Celi. Her last role was in Bertolucci's Me and You. 

October 16th, 1938 in Bucharest  /  Died:   Jun 8th, 2014