Jo Champa

Rosina Jo Champa is an American actress, producer and model who built her early career in Italy. She began acting in Italian films in 1986, starting with Salome for director Claude d'Anna. Jo Champa appears nude in Don Juan DeMarco, the 1994 film directed by Jeremy Leven. She was born on January 23, 1968, in Long Branch, New Jersey. Back in the United States, she starred in Steven Seagal's Out for Justice in 1991. Bernardo Bertolucci then cast her in Little Buddha, released in 1993. On television she guest starred in Walker, Texas Ranger, JAG and CSI: Miami. In Italy she hosted the RAI fashion show Kermesse and wrote for Italian Vogue. Her later film work includes Somewhere (2010), directed by Sofia Coppola.