Anna Rita Del Piano

Anna Rita Del Piano, real name Anna Rita Viapiano (born 26 July 1966, in Cassano delle Murge), is an Italian actress and theater director. Anna Rita Viapiano was born in Cassano delle Murge, where she lived his childhood; later she moved with her family to Matera where she started his first artistic studies with the ballet and then started actively interested in theater when she was a little over 14 years, attending Enrico Annecchino's laboratories, "Hermes" by Emilio Andrisani and "Teatro dei Sassi" always in Matera led by Massimo Lanzetta and Loredana Paolicelli. Performances continue dividing between dance and music troupe of Tirambo Lino Cavallo. Continues her studies graduating to Niccolò Piccinni in Bari as a dancer performs in 1984 with master Momcilo Borojevic and works in the Dancemania dance company of Venosa with dancer Tani Viti. She graduated at the University of Urbino Isef with honors and enrolled at the Conservatorio musicale Egidio Romualdo Duni of Matera.

Her first contact with the cinema world is the participation in 1993 in the movie The Star Maker by Giuseppe Tornatore while she was in Matera, where she was offered a small part.

The encounter with Tornatore marks her beginning with the seventh art since shortly after the shooting to Rome to attend different schools of cinema. The first television job as a television actress in 1996 is The Fourth King of Stefano Reali in the role of a beautiful leprous, and then working in other fiction as Ultimo, Valeria medico legale and una donna per amico. In 2000 has a co-starring role in the TV drama "Le Ali della Vita" and "Le Ali della Vita 2" with Sabrina Ferilli and Virna Lisi, where she plays the role of sister Celestina. The following year she co-starred with fiction Maria Goretti and L'Uomo sbagliato.

As a movie actress holds, among others, the role of the social worker in the movie Le bande by Lucio Giordano and the ticket lady in Focaccia blues by Nico Cirasola and Che bella giornata by Checco Zalone.In 2012 the actress Anna Rita Del Piano back to Cassano delle Murge in the guise of Director to present his latest production "Parigi nell'Anno del Signore" (into English: "Paris in the year of the Lord" .