{{Short description|Italian actress, singer, and television personality}} {{Infobox person | name = Marisa Laurito | image = Marisa Laurito - foto di Augusto De Luca.jpg | image_size = | caption = Marisa Laurito in 1987, photographed by Augusto De Luca | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|4|19|df=yes}} | birth_place = Naples, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = {{flatlist| *Actress *singer *television personality }} | spouse = }}
'''Marisa Laurito''' (born 19 April 1951) is an Italian actress, singer and television personality.
==Life and career== Born in Naples, Italy, Laurito debuted at a very young age entering the stage company of Eduardo De Filippo.<ref name=music>{{cite book|first=Eddy|last=Anselmi|title=Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana|language=it|location=Modena|publisher=Panini|year=2009|isbn=978-88-6346-229-6}}</ref><ref name=Grasso>{{cite book|editor-first=Aldo|editor-last=Grasso|title=Enciclopedia della televisione|language=it|location=Milan|publisher=Garzanti|year=1996|isbn=88-11-50466-X}}</ref><ref name=hdh /> She obtained large popularity with Renzo Arbore's variety show ''Quelli della notte'', and then went on to host several TV-programs, including two editions of the RAI Saturday night show ''Fantastico''.<ref name="music"/><ref name="Grasso"/><ref name=hdh /> In 1989, she entered the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Il babà è una cosa seria", ranking twelfth.<ref name="music"/><ref name=hdh>{{cite book|first1=Giorgio|last1=Dell'Arti|first2=Massimo|last2=Parrini|title=Catalogo dei viventi 2009: 7247 italiani notevoli con l'indice di tutti i nomi citati|language=it|location=Venice|publisher=Marsilio|year=2008|isbn=978-88-317-9599-9}}</ref> Laurito is also author of several cookbooks. She believes in one God but she does not follow any religion.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Lucio|last=Giordano|title=Credo in un unico Dio che è amore, ma non nelle regole della religione|language=it|magazine=Dipiù|date=10 November 2023|number=45|pages=86-89}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== * ''Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe'' (1976) * ''L'Italia s'è rotta'' (1976) * ''The Payoff'' (1978) * ''Gegè Bellavita'' (1978) * ''Odds and Evens'' (1978) * ''Café Express'' (1980) * ''La pagella'' (1980) * ''A tu per tu'' (1984) * ''Il mistero di Bellavista'' (1985) * ''Il tenente dei carabinieri'' (1986) * ''Terra Nova'' (1991) * {{ill|W gli sposi (2019 film)|lt=W gli sposi|it|W gli sposi|italic=y}} (2019) *''I fratelli De Filippo'' (2021)
==References== {{reflist}}
== External links == *{{official website|http://www.marisalaurito.com}} *{{IMDb name|0491490}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Laurito, Marisa}} Category:1951 births Category:Living people Category:Singers from Naples Category:Actresses from Naples Category:Comedians from Naples Category:Italian comedy musicians Category:Italian film actresses Category:Italian television personalities Category:Italian stage actresses Category:20th-century Italian women singers Category:21st-century Italian women singers Category:20th-century Italian actresses Category:21st-century Italian actresses Category:Italian deists