Pia Giancaro (born 12 March 1950) is an Italian former actress and television personality.
Life and career
Born Maria Pia Gianporcaro in
Palermo
Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...
, the daughter of a Sicilian railroad worker and a Slavic mother, Giancaro in 1968 won the Miss Sicily beauty contest and entered the
Miss Italy
Miss Italia is a beauty pageant awarding prizes every year to young, female contestants from Italy. Since the first edition of the contest in 1939 many of the contestants have gone on to notable careers in television and film.
History
The foreru ...
competition.
One year later she made her television debut alongside
Corrado in the
RAI
RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana (; commercially styled as Rai since 2000; known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane) is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. RAI operates many ter ...
quiz show ''A che gioco giochiamo?''.
Shorty later Giancaro started appearing in films, mainly in
character role
A character actor is a supporting actor who plays unusual, interesting, or eccentric characters.28 April 2013, The New York Acting SchoolTen Best Character Actors of All Time Retrieved 7 August 2014, "..a breed of actor who has the ability to ...
s.
Giancaro later married the prince
Lillio Sforza Marescotti Ruspoli and retired from show business.
References
External links
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Italian film actresses
Italian television personalities
1950 births
Mass media people from Palermo
Living people
Actresses from Palermo
Models from Sicily