Patrizia Pellegrino
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Patrizia Pellegrino | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 July 1962[1] Torre Annunziata, Naples, Italy[1] |
| Spouses | Pietro Antisari Vittori
(m. 1989)Stefano Todini
(m. 2005; div. 2013) |
| Partner | Giampaolo Embrione |
| Children | 4 |
Patrizia Pellegrino (born 28 July 1962) is an Italian actress, television personality and singer.
Born in Torre Annunziata, Pellegrino graduated in dance at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples.[1] She made her debut in a minor role in the 1977 film Onore e guapparia .[2] The peak of her career was achieved in the first half of the 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.[2] In 1985 she starred in Greydon Clark's Final Justice,[3] while in 1989 she starred as Rita in the Italian TV movie Dinner with a Vampire, alongside George Hilton.[4] From the late 1980s she focused her career on stage, in both brilliant and dramatic works, working with Vittorio Gassman and Pietro Garinei, among others.[2] In 1990 she had a role in Cristina Comencini's The Amusements of Private Life, alongside Gassman,[5] and in 1996 she starred in the second season of Italian TV series Pazza famiglia.[6] In 2001 she had a small role in the television movie With the Killer's Eyes,[7] and in 2012 another minor role in Massimiliano Bruno's Viva l'Italia.[8] In 2014 she portrayed Novella in Pupi Avati's Il bambino cattivo, a television film broadcast on Rai 1.[9] In 2018 she starred in the thriller Le grida del silenzio.[10]
Pellegrino has also a career as a singer, launched by the Italo disco single "Beng!!!".[2] She participated in the second edition of the Rai 2 reality show L'isola dei famosi.[1]
