BIOGRAPHY
MODELING CAREER
BIOGRAPHY
MODELING CAREER
Elisabetta was born in Sassari, Sardegna, Italy on September 12th 1978 . She graduates at Liceo Classico D.A. Azuni by the age of 19 and then she moves to Milano to start her University Studies at Universita' Statale, majoring in foreign languages and literature.

She starts to work on national Italian Tv at a very early age as she becomes one of the two showgirls to appear on the popular Italian show Striscia la Notizia on Canale 5 from 1999 to 2002. In the same period of time, she also has minor acting roles in the American movies “Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo” and “Virgin Territory”.

In 2005, she plays Elisabetta in “Love Bugs 2”, the second season of the successful Italian sit-com Love Bugs.


She is the spokeperson for the lingerie brand “Loveble”. In 2003 she is featured on the Max Calendar by Photographer Conrad Godly. From 2006 to 2009 she represents the fashion brand "Hollywood Milano".

In 2010, Maxim magazine nominates her the 7th most beautiful woman in the world while she is in the top 50 for DT Spain magazine. In 2011, she follows France’s first lady Carla Bruni as the new Lancia's testimonial; she promotes the new city limousine Musa "5th Avenue” in an advertisement recorded in Los Angeles.


In June 2011 she also appears in a photo-shoot for Vogue Spain (photographer Vincent Peters) and in September of the same year, she is on the cover of the Arabian version of Harper's Bazaar as well as on the cover of the South American magazine Vanidades.

Still in 2011, she is the model and testimonial for Roberto Cavalli’s underwear and also gets her third cover on the Italian version of Vanity Fair ( while she gets nominated by the magazine as the 4th woman most beautiful in the world).
In 2007, she co-hosts “Festivalbar”, one of the most important summer music festival in Italy. In 2008 Elisabetta also hosts the Trofeo Birra Moretti, a summer football competition played between S.S.C. Napoli, A.C. Milan and Juventus. In the meantime she co-hosts with journalist Sandro Piccinini five seasons of “Controcampo”, the most famous football tv program in Italy (the show won the famous Telegatto award)

In 2009, she is the presenter of the Italian version of the successful MTV program “Total Request Live”. In 2010, she plays a recurring character in season 3 of the TNT series “Leverage”. She is also the spokeperson for Delta Q Cafè in Portugal. In February 2011, she successfully co-hosts the most Important Italian song contest, “Sanremo Music Festival” with
Italian music icon Gianni Morandi and another showgirl Belen Rodriguez. During the Festival, she interviews many celebrities such as Robert De Niro. Elisabetta also appears on the 13th season of Dancing with the Stars USA. She is paired with Valentin Chmerkovskiy and is the second participant to be eliminated on 27 September 2011.
She is interviewed on the The Ellen DeGeneres Show and the Jimmy Kimmel Live in September 2011. She poses nude for PETA's "I'd Rather Go Naked than Wear Fur" campaign in 2011. In 2012, she co-hosts for the second time in her career, the Sanremo Music Festival and acts with the singer Adriano Celentano in the role of "Italia".

For the third year in row, she is the spokeperson for “Ferrero” Germany.


Since 2012, she is the new spokeperson for the brand Pantene in Italy, the brand Auping in the Netherlands and the brand Ferrero’s in Germany.

In June 2012, she becomes the cover girl of the last issue of “Sportweek Dreams”, a special edition of the daily newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport.
In July of the same year, she shoots a new ADV for Peta, where "she's like a dog locked in a car". During Milano Fashion Week 2012, she takes part in the runway for Philipp Plein and for the new collection of Miss Bikini.
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