Dino Giarrusso

Dino Giarrusso (born 11 September 1974 in Catania) is an Italian television personality and politician.

Dino Giarrusso

MEP
Member of the European Parliament
for Italian Islands
Assumed office
2 July 2019[1][2]
Personal details
NationalityItalian
Political partyFive Star Movement
Alma materUniversity of Siena
OccupationPolitician, TV correspondent, journalist, actor

Biography

Giarrusso graduated in 1997 in Communication Sciences at the University of Siena; he worked as a journalist, collaborating with the La Repubblica and L'Unità, as well as a television author for local Sicilian newspapers. He also shot various commercials and documentaries, always relating to his homeland, and was assistant director of Ettore Scola, Marco Risi and Ricky Tognazzi. Giarrusso also played some minor roles in Italian TV series.

From 2014 to 2018 he worked as a correspondent for the TV program Le Iene, broadcast on Italia 1.

In 2019 he was elected as an MEP in the European Parliament election, resulting, with 117,211 preference votes, the most voted candidate of the Five Star Movement.[3]

References
  1. "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. "Key dates ahead". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. "Chi è stato eletto alle Europee". Il Post (in Italian). 28 May 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
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