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Gabriella Farinon
Gabriella Farinon
	Farinon in Radiocorriere magazine, 1975
Born	17 August 1941 (age 82); Oderzo, Kingdom of Italy
Occupation	Actress

Gabriella Farinon (born 17 August 1941) is an Italian television and radio presenter and actress.

Life and career edit

Born in Oderzo, after appearing in several films, in 1961 Farinon joined RAI as announcer. Starting from 1968, she presented several programs of various genres, notably several editions of the Sanremo Music Festival and of Un disco per l'estate. The last program she presented was the 1997 Rai 3 talk show TeleSogni.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Farinon's daughter Barbara Modesti, whom she had with documentarist Dore Modesti, is a RAI journalist. Her sister Luisa married businessman Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone.^[2]

Selected filmography edit

La cento chilometri (1959)
Blood and Roses (1960)
Space-Men (1960)
Anonima cocottes (1960)
Le ambiziose (1960)
Sword in the Shadows (1961)
Alexander Zwo (1972, TV miniseries)
Più forte sorelle (1973)
Borsalino & Co. (1974)
C'è una spia nel mio letto (1976)
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)

References edit

^ Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. Enciclopedia della Televisione. Garzanti, Milano, 1996 – 2003. ISBN 881150466X.
^ ^a ^b Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. Catalogo dei viventi. Marsilio, 2009. ISBN 9788831795999.
^ Paolo Conti (31 May 2016). "Annunciatrici tv, Gabriella Farinon si racconta: "Quando la Rai mi multò per aver messo una parrucca"". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 29 October 2016.