Patrizia Pellegrino | |
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Born | [1] | 28 July 1962
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, 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]
She has been married two times and now she has a partner; she considers herself Roman Catholic. [11]