Veronica Pivetti

{{short description|Italian actress and voice actress}}

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| name = Veronica Pivetti

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| 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}}

Filmography

=Film=

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!scope="col"|Role

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1978

|Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato

|Yuki Mori

|{{nowrap|Italian voice-}}over

1995

|Viaggi di nozze

|Fosca

|

1996

|The Blue Collar Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirl of Sex and Politics

|Rossella Giacometti

|

rowspan="2"|1997

|Other Men

|Maria De Simone

|

Hercules

|Megara

|Italian voice-over

1998

|Kirikou and the Sorceress

|Karabà

|Italian voice-over

2000

|Le giraffe

|Michela

|

2008

|Horton Hears a Who!

|Sour Kangaroo

|Italian voice-over

2015

|Né Giulietta né Romeo

|Olga Bordin

|

2016

|La cena di Natale

|Pina

|

=Television=

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!scope="col"|Title

!scope="col"|Role

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1990

|Don Tonino

|Journalist

|Episode: "Don Tonino e la maledizione dell'abate"

1993

|Quelli che... il Calcio

|Herself / Opinionist

|Talk show

1998

|Sanremo Music Festival 1998

|Herself / Co-host

|Annual music festival

1999–2002

|Commesse

|Fiorenza Damiani

|Main role

rowspan="2"|2000

|Les ritaliens

|Vittoria Rinaldi

|Television film

Qualcuno da amare

|Dr. Claudia Sereni

|Television film

2001

|L'attentatuni - Il grande attentato

|Anna Granata

|Television film

2003–2005

|Il maresciallo Rocca

|Francesca Mariani

|Main role (season 4-5)

2005

|L'amore non basta

|Carola

|Television film

2005–2017

|Provaci ancora prof!

|Camilla Baudino

|Lead role

2006

|David di Donatello

|Herself / Host

|Award ceremony

2007

|Zecchino d'Oro

|Herself / Co-host

|Singing competition

2009

|Miacarabefana.it

|Beniamina Volò / Babuccia Bucata

|Television film

2010

|La ladra

|Eva Marsiglia

|Lead role

2011

|S.O.S. Befana

|Beniamina Volò / Babuccia Bucata

|Television film

2018–2021

|Amore criminale

|Herself / Host

|Investigation docuseries

2019–present

|Nuovi eroi

|Narrator (voice)

|Docuseries

References

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