Veronica Pivetti (born 19 February 1965) is an Italian actress and voice actress.
Life and career
Born in
Milan
Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...
, 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.
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 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 to play his wife in the box office hit ''
Viaggi di nozze''.
After appearing in several more films, notably
Lina Wertmüller
Arcangela Felice Assunta "Lina" Wertmüller (; 14 August 1928 – 9 December 2021) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her 1970s art film, art house films ''Seven Beauties'',' ''The Seduction of Mimi'', ''Lov ...
'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''.
In 1998 Pivetti hosted the
Sanremo Music Festival
The Sanremo Music Festival ( ), officially the Italian Song Festival (), is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria, organized and broadcast by (RAI). It is the longest-running ...
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.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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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