Zeudi Araya

Zeudi Araya (born 10 February 1951) is an Eritrean former actress, singer, model and film producer.

On a journey to Italy in 1972, Araya recorded a commercial for coffee, where she was introduced to director Luigi Scattini, who cast her with Beba Lončar in La ragazza dalla pelle di luna shot in the Seychelles.

In 1973, songs composed by Piero Umiliani she sang in the score of another Scattini film where she played the lead role (La ragazza fuoristrada) were released on a 45 rpm record.

From 1973 to 1975, several roles in movies followed, most of them directed by Scattini.

She also appeared in the Italian version of Playboy magazine in March 1974.

In 1976, she appeared with Paolo Villaggio in the Fantozzi-style comedy Il signor Robinson by Sergio Corbucci.

Her last prominent appearance was in the epic Hearts and Armour, released in 1983.

Araya subsequently withdrew from acting, and has since then been producing movies.

She was married to film producer Franco Cristaldi from 1983 until his death in 1992.

Since 1994 she lives with the director Massimo Spano, with whom she has a son.

She was at the 2011 Venice Film Festival.

Araya's father was a politician and her uncle was a diplomat in Rome.