Veronica Pivetti (born 19 February 1965) is an Italian actress and voice actress.

Life and career

Born in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city ...

, Pivetti is the daughter of Grazia Gabrielli, a voice actress and of Paolo Pivetti, a stage director. She is the younger sister of the politician

Irene Pivetti Irene Pivetti (born 4 April 1963 in Milan) is an Italian journalist, television presenter and politician. She has been President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 1996. After leaving politics, she started a career in television, lik ...

. She started her career as a voice actress at 8 years old, specializing in dubbing anime and cartoons. Pivetti studied painting at

Accademia di Brera The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera ("academy of fine arts of Brera"), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca ...

in Milan and briefly worked as studio assistant for an artist before focusing on acting again. After several appearances in the variety show '' Quelli che... il Calcio'', in 1995 Pivetti made her film debut, chosen by the actor and director

Carlo Verdone Carlo Gregorio Verdone (born 17 November 1950) is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. Verdone is best known for his comedic roles in Italian classics, which he also wrote and directed. His career was jumpstarted by his first thre ...

to play his wife in the box office hit ''

Viaggi di nozze is a 1995 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Verdone. Plot summary The film is divided into three stories that mingle during the performance. In the first story, the timid Giovannino is married to Valeria and is about to leave in a cruise sh ...

''. After appearing in several more films, notably

Lina Wertmüller Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spanol von Braueich (14 August 1928 – 9 December 2021), known as Lina Wertmüller (), was an Italian film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her 1970s art house films '' Seven Beauti ...

's '' The Blue Collar Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirl of Sex and Politics'', Pivetti later focused her activities on television, playing main roles in a number of successful TV-series, including '' Commesse'', '' Il maresciallo Rocca'' and ''

Provaci ancora prof ''Provaci ancora prof!'' (English: ''Try again teacher!'') is an Italian television series. Plot The show follows the story of Camilla Baudino, a high school teacher that often finds herself involved in some crimes. Camilla, an amateur detective, ...

''. In 1998 Pivetti hosted the

Sanremo Music Festival The Sanremo Music Festival, officially the Italian Song Festival () and commonly known as just (), is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria. It is the longest-running annua ...

alongside

Raimondo Vianello Raimondo Vianello (7 May 1922 – 15 April 2010) was an Italian film actor, comedian, and television host. He was a well-known Italian television personality. Biography He was born in Rome, but spent his youth in Pula, where his father, an ...

and Eva Herzigová.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pivetti, Veronica Italian film actresses Italian television actresses Italian stage actresses Brera Academy alumni 1965 births Actresses from Milan Living people 20th-century Italian actresses 21st-century Italian actresses