Mara Venier really deserves a nice birthday. Great satisfactions but, as for all beautiful souls, also a difficult year. And not only for last year's solo conduction of the television container Sunday in, in which he connected with confined VIPs for the pandemic, but for the complications of dental surgery. How many people has Aunt Mara kept company, as she is affectionately called? A fixed appointment, like the pasta on Sunday lunch. Verve and promptness prove her right. Assert yourself with a smile. Maternal, capable of being moved but leading with a firm hand. Grace and irony. Mara Venier turns her birthday on 20 October.
Mara Venier's career
Mara Venier seems to have always been in our homes, reassuring and true (Mara hilarious on the radio and on social media, when she informs fans of the progress of her weight loss diet, but will she really need it? Isn't that a symbol?). How did it all start? Chiara Maffioletti asks her in the Corriere della Sera «I had to play a game in the edition with Luca Giurato, who however understood that he only wanted to deal with investigations, Monica Vitti who only wanted to talk about cinema and Don Mazzi, who only wanted to do social work. We needed someone who kept everything together and I found myself driving, four days before departure ". Fear? "To death. Producer De Andreis had convinced me that I would be capable. I told him he was crazy ".
The debut on Sunday in
"Sunday in is a tiring and long program and it deserves a reflection which, however, in reality, I do every year. The truth - explained the presenter to the weekly Oggi in an interview shot on the web - is that a 'Sunday in 'I don't know how to say no because it is the program that has given me everything. Before, I was considered Renzo Arbore's girlfriend, I did some cinema in a clumsy way, I always believed very little in myself and I always accepted the job to earn two lire. I never imagined that he would give me so much ”. What did he give her? “The affection of the public that never made me feel alone even when the programs were taken away from me. So I say: I'm tired, I'm old but, in the end, I always say yes".
Mara Venier and the Eighties
Mara Venier is Venetian, she becomes a mother for the first time very young, just eighteen, she moves to Rome to follow her then husband, Francesco Ferracini, and support his career. But it is she who blossoms. Long an actress, she made her debut in 1973 in the film Diary of an Italian by Sergio Capogna. And he has worked in well-known Italian comedies such as Heads or tails by Nanni Loy and it is with him that he shoots the last film Package, package and counter-package. At that time he was paired with Jerry Calà, a multifaceted actor, symbol of Eighties, with Sapore di mare, and I'm going to live alone, with him she got married in Las Vegas in 1984 (the two remain close friends, even now).
She also likes it for this, she tells about herself, she is not afraid to show herself natural, with strengths and weaknesses, to tell her human and professional story and explain to us that you can change jobs, interests, even destiny. Mara Venier is a stable presence, who has crossed the history of this country, dared, naturally imposed a certain type of feminine that overcomes the obsession for rules and perfect measures. That uses the weapon of irony, which is direct, without being too pop, refined without being too cold. In short, a true Italian, capable, in her living room, of dealing with various topics, of making them understandable, of entertaining, with simplicity, even in complex moments. Happy birthday Mara.
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