Who is Elisabetta Villaggio, Paolo’s daughter guest on Domenica In
Who is Elisabetta Villaggio, Paolo’s daughter guest on Domenica In in the November 5, 2023 episode? Elisabetta is known to the world as the daughter of Paolo Villaggio, the famous accountant Fantozzi. She was born in 1959 from the love between the actor and Maura Albites who also had another son: Pierfrancesco. She graduated in Philosophy at the University of Bologna and in Cinema and Television in Los Angeles at the USC (University of South California). You have worked on television as assistant director, director, author and consultant for Rai, Mediaset and la7 programmes. You have made two short films. One of the two, “Taxi”, was selected at the Venice Film Festival.
Elisabetta is also the author of many books, “Marilyn: an intrigue inside death”, “I am Virginia”, “A bizarre life”, “The red mustang”. To then get to the latest publication: “Fantozzi behind the scenes. Beyond the Mask. The (true) life of Paolo Villaggio” published by Baldini + Castoldi in 2021.
We don’t know much about Elisabetta’s private life, she has no children and has never married. However, she was very eloquent on her relationship with her father: calling him several times “intrusive but also indifferent”. It was she who announced the death of the great Paolo Villaggio: “Hi dad, now you are free to fly again”.
In a recent interview with Corriere della Sera Elisabetta said that Paolo Villaggio “was not the father who read you fairy tales before going to sleep”, nor one of those who “accompanied you to school or came to interviews with the teachers” . The woman, who is now 64 years old, recalled that at school she was ashamed of having a famous father, while her teachers adored him: “The teachers liked him much more. Except for a middle school teacher, who considered him like a clown.” For her he was “a normal person, curious, hyperactive, he loved travel, the company of friends”.
The woman remembers the beginning of Villaggio’s career, when he was summoned to Rai and chosen by the director of Rai1 for a program about to be born: “One day he was summoned to the Rai headquarters in Viale Mazzini by Giovanni Salvi, who was director of Rai1 . He had seen him at “7 × 8″ in the role of Professor Kranz and wanted to propose him for a program that was about to be born and that would be realized in Milan”.
The character of Ragionieri Fantozzi, who made Paolo Villaggio famous, was born first with a book, and then moved to the big screen a year later. And his daughter Elisabetta remembered that moment precisely: “Dad wrote these strips that came out weekly in the European newspaper. And Rizzoli, at a certain point, commissioned the book from him. The summer before shooting the first film, on holiday at the seaside, he read the sketches to us to check whether they made us laugh.”
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