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

Life and career

Born in

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 ...

, 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 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 ''

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''. 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 Beaut ...

'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 ''Commesse (sales associates)'' is an Italian television comedy drama series directed by Giorgio Capitani and broadcast by Rai 1 between 1999 and 2002. Cast * Sabrina Ferilli: Marta De Santis * Nancy Brilli: Roberta Ardenzi * Veronica Pivet ...

'', '' Il maresciallo Rocca'' and '' Provaci ancora prof''. In 1998 Pivetti hosted the

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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 Eva Herzigová (born 10 March 1973) is a Czech-Italian supermodel and actress. Early life and career Herzigová was born in Litvínov, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), the daughter of an accountant mother and an electrician father. Growin ...

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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