Pietro Genuardi, actor of Il Paradiso delle Ladies and Centovetrine died

The actor died at 62 Pietro Genuardi. Known to the general public for the role of Armando ne The paradise of the ladies And for that of Ivan Bettini in the soap CentovetrineGenuardi died at the Umberto I hospital in Rome, where he was hospitalized to treat a blood disease that had been diagnosed with him some time ago.

The actor had often updated fans on his health conditions, the last one before Christmas, when on Instagram he had written that he had concluded a series of therapies and which should have supported a last cycle of care before being able to undergo a marrow transplant. He called the two people compatible with him “angels”, one found in Vicenza and one in Germany, in addition to his son Jacopo, born in 1991, had from the first wife Gabriella Saitta. “I was hoping to spend a few days at home before the tiring appointment to close, we hope definitively with this unexpected parenthesis of life, but unfortunately small complications force me to stay in the hospital and this point will try to anticipate the transplant”. Words full of hope: “I don’t give up and I’m optimistic,” he wrote, but then things unfortunately did not go as he hoped.

Born in Milan, Genuardi had started his career in the theater, and then landed on TV. First small roles, also supported by the work as an author and director, until success, arrived with Centovetrine, where he worked from 2001 to 2014. To cure himself he had left the set de The paradise of the ladies, Series set between the 1950s and 60s, but never lose contact with colleagues and fans.

At his side, always, the family. Genuardi was married to Linda Ascierto, a flight attendant known during a trip. Hence the attendance and orange blossom, arrived in 2020, in Puglia. «Forever beyond the boundaries of the soul”, she wrote on social media to tell him goodbye. “You will be my smile, my sun, my great love. I told you I love you every day of my life and I will continue to do it … because love does not die my life. I string me strong and we walk together ».