He was born in Rome on March 7, 1943.
He made his film debut in 1969 with Federico Fellini who accidentally noticed him in the Cinecittà Studios.
He worked in Italian cinema for about 12 years from 1969 to 1981 when he decided to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
From this moment on, she will have no further opportunities to work in the cinema.
She died in Bentivoglio on September 7, 2010 at the age of 67.
In 2014, at the 32nd Torino Film Festival, Simone Cangelosi presented a documentary devoted to her life: Una nobile rivoluzione and in 2019 the journalist and TV presenter Bianca Berlinguer published a book dedicated to her biography: Storia di Marcella che fu Marcello.
Alias: Marcello Di Folco.
- Fellini Satyricon .... Proconsul (credited as Marcello Di Folco)
1971 - In nome del popolo italiano .... Secretary of Lorenzo Santenocito (uncredited)
1972 - Anche se volessi lavorare, che faccio? .... Fernando Ceruzzi, keeper of the Etruscan museum (credited)
- Decameron n° 2 - Le altre novelle del Boccaccio .... The Abbot (credited)
- Il terrore con gli occhi storti .... Henchman of Jean-Pierre (credited)
- L'età di Cosimo De' Medici (TV series) - episode 1: "L'esilio di Cosimo" …. Cosimo De' Medici (credited)
- Roma .... Son of the guest-house owner (uncredited)
- Sotto a chi tocca! .... Gastaldo (credited)
1973 - Amarcord .... Prince (credited)
- L'età di Cosimo De' Medici (TV series) - episode 2: "Potere di Cosimo" …. Cosimo De' Medici (credited)
- L'età di Cosimo De' Medici (TV series) - episode 3: "Leon Battista Alberti: l'umanesimo" …. Cosimo De' Medici (credited)
- Storie scellerate .... General Gaudillo (credited)
1974 - Finché c'è guerra c'è speranza .... Jepson (credited as Marcello Di Folco)
- Il poliziotto è marcio .... Pascal's henchman (credited)
1975 - Di che segno sei? .... Cosimo (credited)
- Mondo candido .... Army commanderl (credited)
- Quant'è bella la Bernarda, tutta nera, tutta calda .... Arturo (credited)
1976 - Todo modo .... Saccà (credited)
- Tutti possono arricchire tranne i poveri .... Poletti, seller of the island (credited as Marcello Di Folco)
- Vinella e Don Pezzotta .... Tony Spray (credited)
1977 - Un borghese piccolo piccolo .... Giovanni Vivaldi's colleague (uncredited)
1979 - Caligola .... Orgies coordinator (uncredited)
- Squadra antigangsters .... Man at the fake funeral of Gitto Cardonel (credited)
1980 - La città delle donne .... Feminist organization assistant (credited)
1981 - I carabbinieri .... Aroldo (credited as Marcello Di Folco)