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Who is he, age and height
Enrico Montesano (Rome, June 7, 1945) is an Italian actor, television host, singer, comedian and politician.
Career
In his career, he has evolved between theater, cinema and television. He started in theater and cinema in 1966, but acquired fame especially in the seventies when he participated as an impersonator and cabaret operator in several Rai television shows including the variety Quantunque io (1977) which earned him the “rose d’or” at the Montreux Festival. The following year, Montesano performed Rugantino, the first in a series of enduring and successful musicals that also included Bravo! (1981) and Se il tempo fossa un gambero (1986).
In the cinema, after his performance as co-protagonist in the popular Febbre da cavallo, by Steno (1976), during the following decade, he participated in other comedies with great public success among which Aragosta a colazione, Qua la mano, Il ladrone, I due carabinieri, Il conte Tacchia, Grandi magazzini et Anche i commercialisti hanno un’anima. In 1988, he was called upon to host, with Anna Oxa, Fantastico the Saturday evening variety of Rai 1, which among the programs associated with Lotteria Italia, marks a still unequaled record for audiences and the number of tickets sold. With this television success, Montesano reached the peak of his popularity, which he was unable to approach in the following decades.
Also active as a singer and later as a writer, Montesano in the nineties had direct political experience with the Partito Democratico della Sinistra, first as a municipal councilor in Rome then from 1994 as a deputy in Parliament European, which he left two years later by distancing himself from the institution and the party. He has always been a big supporter of Lazio.
Illness and controversies
In 2021, the actor contracted covid and sparked controversies because since 2020 he had started a political battle against the imposition of vaccines and restrictions due to measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
He had published numerous videos in which he takes critical positions towards the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and supported numerous conspiracy theories related to the pandemic and vaccines. In June 2021, he was at the center of a controversy arising following a video in which he was the spokesperson for a theory according to which blood donated by vaccinated people is eliminated.
Privacy
Enrico Montesano has several children: 6, from three different women. From love with the stylist Martina Spadaro was born Mattia, now a film producer. Then from his first wife Tamara Moltrasio, the three children Lavinia, Tommaso and Oliver. From his second and current wife Teresa Trisorio, married in 1992: Michele Enrico (1996) and Marco Valerio (1997), both theater actors.
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