Cecilia Dazzi was born in Rome and her debut was in 1986 in La Famiglia directed by the great Ettore Scola, with Vittorio Gassman and Sergio Castellitto. In 1989 she moved to NYC where she studied acting at Herbert Bergog's Studio: come back to Italy she become Carmelo Bene's assistant. In 1991 she become famous for the role of Debora in I ragazzi del muretto, an adolescential fiction. In 1994 comes her first international production, Jakob by Peter Hall with Matthew Modine and Sean Bean. Four years later she won the David di Donatello for her perfomance in Matrimoni by Cristina Comencini. In 2003 she worked with Maggie Smith, Chris Cooper and Timothy Spall in Ricard Loncraine's My house in Umbria, and one year after in Wimbledon with Kirsten Dunst and Paul Bettany.