Vanna Bonta
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page. (September 2014) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2014) Vanna Bonta Bonta at Poetry Society conference Florence, Italy; September 2009 Born 3 April 1958 United States Died 8 July 2014 (aged 56) Occupation Writer, actor, voice artist Language English, Italian Genre Fiction, poetry, essay, philosophical literature, social commentary, teleplay Literary movement Quantum fiction Notable works Beauty and the Beast (Disney), coined quantum fiction, Flight: a quantum fiction novel Relatives Luigi Ugolini (grandfather), Maria Luisa Ugolini (mother), Lydia Ugolini (aunt) Vanna Bonta (3 April 1958 – 8 July 2014) was an Italian-American writer, actress, and inventor. 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. 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. Bonta invented the 2suit, a flight garment designed to facilitate human intimacy and stability 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.