Veronica Pivetti (born 19 February 1965) is an Italian actress and voice actress.
Life and career
Born in
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
, 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
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera ("academy of fine arts of Brera"), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di ...
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 ''
Viaggi di nozze''.
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 film, art house films ''Sev ...
's ''
'', 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 Pivetti: ...
'', ''
Il maresciallo Rocca
''Il maresciallo Rocca'' (''Marshal Rocca'') is an Italian crime television series.
Cast
* Gigi Proietti as Marshal Giovanni Rocca
* Stefania Sandrelli as Margherita Rizzo
* Veronica Pivetti as Francesca Mariani
* Sergio Fiorentini as Bri ...
'' and ''
Provaci ancora prof
''Provaci ancora prof!'' (English: ''Try again teacher!'') is an Italian television series.
Plot
The show follows the story of Camilla Baudino, a high school teacher that often finds herself involved in some crimes. Camilla, an amateur detective, ...
''.
In 1998 Pivetti hosted the
Sanremo Music Festival
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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. Growing ...
.
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