Elio Pietrini

Elio Pietrini
Born2 January 1939 (1939-01-02)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died18 January 2022 (2022-01-19) (aged 83)
OccupationActor

Elio Pietrini (2 January 1939 – 18 January 2022) was an Argentine-born Venezuelan actor, mainly active in telenovelas.

Life and career

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Born in Buenos Aires, Pietrini worked 12 years for the Venezuelan television channel RCTV, getting his breakout role in the early 1990s as Don Fulgenzio in the TV-series La pandilla de los 7.[1] He later worked for numerous telenovelas and TV-movies, and after leaving RCTV he was put under contract by Venevisión, where he worked until his retirement.[1]

Besides television, Pietrini was also active in theatre and cinema.[1] His last work was the stage drama Una tarde en Saint Tropez, that he starred in between 2014 and 2015.[2] Once retired, he moved to Miami, Florida, where he died from complications of COVID-19 on 18 January 2022, at the age of 83.[1]

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d Redacción de Entretenimiento (19 January 2022). "Muere de covid actor Elio Pietrini, un as de las telenovelas venezolanas". Listín Diario (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Falleció el primer actor Elio Pietrini a los 83 años de edad". El Nacional (in Spanish). 19 January 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
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