Veronica Pivetti

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| name = Veronica Pivetti

| image = Veronica_Pivetti.jpg

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1965|2|19}}

| birth_place = Milan, Italy

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| occupation = Actress

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

Life and career

Born in Milan, 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.{{cite news|last=Secchi Frau|first=Fabio|title=Veronica Pivetti. Viaggi... di voce|language=it|url=http://www.mymovies.it/biografia/?a=2697|access-date=29 September 2014|newspaper=MyMovies|date=30 April 2007}}{{cite news|author=Redazione|title=Le Invasioni Barbariche/ Chi è Veronica Pivetti, attrice, doppiatrice e conduttrice tv|url=http://www.ilsussidiario.net/News/Cinema-Televisione-e-Media/2014/3/26/LE-INVASIONI-BARBARICHE-Chi-e-Veronica-Pivetti-attrice-doppiatrice-e-conduttrice-tv/485431/|language=it|access-date=19 March 2015|work=Il Sussidiario|date=26 March 2014}} 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.{{cite news|first=Emilia|last=Costantini|url=https://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/cinema-serie-tv/22_maggio_10/veronica-pivetti-intervista-sorella-irene-depressione-e17aea38-cfc7-11ec-99b8-03572084bce6.shtml | title=Veronica Pivetti: " Rubai in un supermercato. La depressione? Colpa di farmaci sbagliati" |language=it |work=Corriere della Sera| date=5 October 2022 }} 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.{{cite book|first=Enrico|last=Lancia|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I Film|volume=6|language=it|publisher=Gremese Editore|year=2002|isbn=88-8440-137-2}} After appearing in several more films, notably Lina Wertmüller'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 alongside Raimondo Vianello and Eva Herzigová.{{cite book|first=Eddy|last=Anselmi|title=Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana|language=it|year=2009|location=Modena|publisher=Panini|isbn=978-88-6346-229-6}}