Biography
Raffaella De Laurentiis is an Italian film producer. She is the daughter of producer Dino De Laurentiis and actress Silvana Mangano.
She began her career working in props and set departments on her father's productions, later serving as an assistant costume designer on Luchino Visconti's Ludwig (1973) and as a production assistant on Hurricane (1979). Her early producing credits include Conan the Barbarian (1982), Conan the Destroyer (1984) and Dune (1984). She has also produced DragonHeart (1996) and The Last Legion (2007), and served as executive producer on Backdraft (1991), Daylight (1996) and The Forbidden Kingdom (2008).
De Laurentiis was president of production at De Laurentiis Entertainment Group before founding Raffaella Productions. She has maintained a long-term production relationship with Universal Pictures.
