Grew up in an amusement park
Arisa, Carla Signoris, Emanuela Fanelli, Lillo & Greg, Massimo Ranieri and Michele Mirabella will be the guests of the second date of Colpo di Luna, a one-woman show by Virginia Raffaele (flanked by Carlo Conti, Gigi D'Alessio, Francesco Arca and Maurizio Ferrini with their character Mrs. Coriandoli was broadcast on Friday, January 19th at 9.30 p.m. on Rai 1. The program, directed by Duccio Forzano, is inspired on the one hand by the historical Rai variety shows such as Teatro 10, and on the other hand by what connects life and the talents of Virginia Raffaele with the amusement park where she grew up, founded by her grandparents in EUR, Rome in the 1950s. “I was born and raised in an amusement park, I did my homework on the pirate ship, I ate dinner while I loaded the guns, I gave my first kiss behind the apple caterpillar. Then the park closed and the rides went away.”
The beginnings
After graduating in 1999 from the European Theater Academy of the International Integrated Theater, Virginia Raffaele began her career in theater. He then worked with Lillo & Greg in the theater, but also on television and radio. He also appeared in some dramas such as “Il maresciallo Rocca” and “L'onore e il respected”.
The imitations
In 2009, Virginia Raffaele joined the cast of the Mai dire Grande Fratello show as a comedian, where she proposed her parodies and impersonations of famous characters. “Incidentally, the imitations were my calling card,” he told Corriere in 2022, “from then on my success began, thanks to Gialappi and Mai dire grande bro I found a penchant for parody, a personal key to reinterpreting the character of a public figure. “. But I studied to be an actress, it's nice to wander, it's fun to vary, it's you who sets limitless limits to your work.” Over the years, Raffaele has taken part in several television shows, including “Victor Victoria – Nothing is as it seems” on LA7, “Quelli che il calcio” and “Amici di Maria de Filippi”. Most popular parody? “The parodies of real characters are really on the same level; I think more of a fictional character and not a real imitation: I find the transsexual poet Paula Gilberto Do Ma my funniest creation, also because of her profound meaning. I like the work of the actor behind it, the fictional characters are characters that you create from scratch.”
She studied classical dance
One of the most popular impersonations of Virginia Raffaele is that of the étoile Carla Fracci (which was also highly appreciated by the person in question). Perhaps not everyone knows that the comedian has studied classical and modern dance at the National Dance Academy in the past. When Fracci died in 2021, Raffaele remembered her this way: “I don't know how to describe to you what I feel other than a sincere pain at the loss of the artist you are and always will be.” But there is something more, something personal. Thanks to your great self-deprecation, your availability, your education and your love of dance and entertainment, I have had the good fortune and honor to be your “friend” over the past few years. I will never forget how we danced together, but most of all I will never forget your dedication and seriousness, even when you were doing something funny, your attention to detail, your striving for perfection, your education and kindness, your strictness, the knew how to be, incredible, an infinite freedom. At that moment I thought about how much I learned from you. It is no coincidence that you became the greatest Italian dancer of all time. A part of me will “dance” (unworthily) with you forever. Thank you for everything you have given me knowingly and unknowingly. Thank you for understanding the respect I showed you. Thank you for hugging me several times and thank you for correcting me a port de bras. You will remain the only possible Giselle. Hello Carla, I love you. A big hug to Beppe.
At the Sanremo Festival
In 2015, Virginia Raffaele was a guest on the fourth evening of the Sanremo Festival, hosted by Carlo Conti, and a year later she again co-hosted the 2016 edition along with Carlo Conti along with Gabriel Garko and Madalina Ghenea. Raffaele was also on stage at the Ariston in 2019: she moderated the event together with Claudio Baglioni and Claudio Bisio.
In the cinema
Virginia Raffaele's film debut dates back to 2004 (in “Ladri di jokes” by Bruno Colella and Leonardo Giuliano). She later appeared in other films, including “Criminal Novel” by Michele Placido (2005), “Lillo e Greg – The Film!” by Luca Rea (2007), “How beautiful to make love” by Fausto Brizzi (2012) and “A Woman as a Friend” by Giovanni Veronesi (2013). In 2023 we saw her in “Tre di trova” by Fabio De Luigi and in “Denti da sharko” by Davide Gentile, her first dramatic role: “The film is a modern fairy tale, but my character is a real woman, which I tried to portray , to focus on the reasons for three-dimensional design. I am a fan of the thousand facets of the human soul. I have always put myself at risk, in the theater, on television, on the radio, in the cinema, no matter how unconscious I am. This job speaks to you, you can never sit on what has already been done.”
One-woman show
Colpo di luna is not Virginia Raffaele's first one-woman TV show: in 2017 she hosted Affari che io ero with the participation of Fabio De Luigi.
Voice of Morticia Addams
Virginia Raffaele voiced Morticia Addams in the animated film “The Addams Family” by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon (2019) and in the sequel “The Addams Family 2” (2021).
Private life
The actress is very private about her personal life. However, it is known that she had a five-year love affair with comedian Ubaldo Pantani in the past.