Angelica Bella (born Gabriella Piroska Mészáros; 15 February 1968 – 7 May 2021) was a Hungarian
pornographic actress
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. She worked primarily and enjoyed her greatest popularity in Italy.
Career
Bella began her career in the
adult film
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industry under the
pseudonym
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Gabriella Dari. She worked with various German producers in the early 1990s.
Bella has only appeared in a handful of hardcore videos in the United States. She first turned up in two American adult films in 1992: ''The Anal-Europe Series 1 and 2''. In ''Anal-Europe 1'', Angelica Bella performed in a scene with
Tom Byron
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Earl ...
and
Joey Silvera
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He has been involved in the pornographic industry since the early 1970s. A native of upstate New York, he first started performing in San Francis ...
. Angelica Bella then returned to European porn for a time, but returned to American screens in 1995 with a string of performances in movies such as ''Angel's Vengeance'' and ''Kinky Villa''.