Pina Bottin

Giuseppina "Pina" Bottin (17 March 1933 – 1 August 2024) was an Italian actress.

After having been noticed in a beauty contest, in 1953 Bottin made her acting debut in Empty Eyes.

[1] Bottin often played the role of a ingénue (an endearingly innocent young woman), either from Rome as in A Hero of Our Times, or from Venice as in The Seducer.

[1] On 1 August 2024, it was announced that she died at her home in the Sacra Famiglia neighborhood of Padua at the age of 91.

[2] Bottin took part in a number of editions of Carosello: In 1957 with Nino Besozzi, Fanny Marchiò, Ferruccio Amendola and Munaretto; In 1959 with Gianni Caiafa and Fausto Tommei; in 1961 and 1964 with Serena Cantalupi and James Turnbull.