Patrizia Pellegrino (born 28 July 1962) is an Italian actress, television personality and singer.

Life and career

Born in

Torre Annunziata Torre Annunziata (; nap, Torr'Annunziata) is a city and commune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, region of Campania in Italy. It is located on the Gulf of Naples at the foot of Mount Vesuvius. History The city was destroyed in the Vesuvius e ...

, Pellegrino graduated in dance at the San Carlo,

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

.Giorgio Dell'Arti, Massimo Parrini. ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Marsilio, 2009. . She made her debut in a minor role in the 1977 film ''

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''. The peak of her career was achieved in the first half of 1980s, when she was active as lead actress in a number of comedy films as well as a showgirl and a presenter of several variety shows on television. From late 1980s she focused her career on stage, in both brilliant and dramatic works, working with

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and

Pietro Garinei Pietro Garinei (1 February 1919 – 9 May 2006) was an Italian playwright, actor, and songwriter. Brother of Enzo Garinei. Biography Garinei was born in Trieste in 1919. He later worked as a sports journalist for the daily newspaper in Milan and ...

, among others. Pellegrino has also a career as a singer, launched by the

Italo disco Italo disco (variously capitalized, and sometimes hyphenated as Italo-disco) is a music genre which originated in Italy in the late 1970s and was mainly produced in the early 1980s. Italo disco evolved from the then-current underground dance, p ...

single "Beng!!!". She participated to the second edition of the

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reality show '' L'Isola dei Famosi''.Giorgio Dell'Arti, Massimo Parrini. ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Marsilio, 2009. .

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pellegrino, Patrizia Italian film actresses Italian television actresses Italian stage actresses 1962 births People from the Province of Naples Living people Participants in Italian reality television series