Maria Giuseppina Cucciari (born 18 August 1973), best known as Geppi Cucciari, is an Italian

stand-up comedian Stand-up comedy is a comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up. Stand-up comedy consists of one-liners, stories, ...

, actress, radio host and television presenter.

Life and career

Born in

Cagliari Cagliari (, also , , ; sc, Casteddu ; lat, Caralis) is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name ''Casteddu'' means ''castle''. It has about 155,000 inhabitan ...

, Cucciari spent her youth in

Macomer Macomer ( sc, Macumère) is a town and ''comune'' of Sardinia (Italy) in the province of Nuoro. It is situated on the southern ascent to the central plateau (the Campeda) of this part of Sardinia, at the junction of narrow-gauge lines branching fr ...

, in the

province of Nuoro The province of Nuoro ( it, provincia di Nuoro; sc, provìntzia de Nùgoro) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sardinia, Italy. Its capital is the city of Nuoro. It has an area of , and, , a total population of 210,972. The provin ...

. She studied law at the University of Cagliari, and eventually moved to

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

where she graduated at the

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (English: ''Catholic University of the Sacred Heart'', colloquially the ''Catholic University of Milan''), known as UCSC or UNICATT or simply Cattolica, is an Italian private research university founded in 1 ...

. In 2000 she joined the theater workshop "Scaldasole" and later entered the artistic laboratory Zelig. After working on stage and in several radio programs, Cucciari had her breakout in 2003 with the variety show ''Zelig Off''. Between 2005 and 2009, she was a regular in the sitcom '' Belli dentro'', and in 2006 she debuted as a writer with the humour fiction novel ''Meglio donna che male accompagnata''. As a presenter, she hosted two editions of the Canale 5 show ''

Italia's Got Talent ''Italia's Got Talent'' is the Italian version of the international ''Got Talent'' series. The pilot episode was aired on 12 December 2009 on Canale 5 and it was seen by 5.3 million people. After this episode, Mediaset decided to hold on this sho ...

''.

Filmography

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cucciari, Geppi 1973 births Living people People from Cagliari Italian film actresses Italian stage actresses Italian television actresses Italian women comedians 21st-century Italian actresses 21st-century Italian comedians Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore alumni University of Cagliari alumni Italian women television presenters