Career timeline
Art was part of the story from the beginning
Vittoria Risi’s public interviews repeatedly place painting alongside performance. In a 2009 La Stampa interview, she said she came from Venice, had attended the Academy of Fine Arts and had originally studied to become a painter. That account is a useful starting point for her biography because it identifies an interest and training that preceded the screen work for which she became known.
Sources: La Stampa — Vittoria Risi interview, July 1, 2009 ↗
She described another job before entertainment
In a 2011 interview with Gianfranco Gramola, Risi said she had worked as a real-estate agent in Venice for several years. She described continuing to follow an artistic inclination from school through academy studies. Those are her recollections of the sequence, rather than employment records independently checked by this publication. They add a work-history chapter that a list of screen credits alone would not capture.
Sources: Gianfranco Gramola / Interviste Romane — Vittoria Risi interview, July 27, 2011 ↗
Venice influenced how she painted
In the same interview, Risi spoke about the city’s atmosphere, mist and indistinct light as influences on her painting. She described layered effects and abstract images that still suggested landscapes, and connected those interests with late-nineteenth-century art and literature. The discussion is valuable as an artist’s account of intention. It does not require a claim that a critic or museum has endorsed the work.
Sources: Gianfranco Gramola / Interviste Romane — Vittoria Risi interview, July 27, 2011 ↗
An exhibition ran alongside a screen role
Tgcom24 reported in March 2010 that Risi had shown paintings in Venice in an exhibition titled Il tempo perduto. The interview also discussed her portrayal of Moana Pozzi in a production directed by Riccardo Schicchi. The two projects belonged to different forms of performance and representation. Recording them together shows the parallel activities, without reproducing explicit scenes or treating a dramatized portrayal as a reliable source for Pozzi’s private life.
Sources: Tgcom24 — Vittoria Risi on Moana Pozzi and painting, March 11, 2010 ↗
Later reporting kept both careers in view
AbruzzoWeb’s April 2012 interview again introduced Risi as an actor and painter and referred to the exhibition, art studies and earlier real-estate work. Its focus included her interest in painting as an ongoing ambition. Across these dated accounts, the consistent theme is a dual public identity rather than a sudden discovery of art after entertainment. The evidence supports that professional outline while leaving unverified earnings, relationships and supposed secrets outside the profile.
Sources: AbruzzoWeb — Vittoria Risi interview, April 22, 2012 ↗
Prepared with AI assistance. Source-based reporting checked on October 24, 2026. This article does not update automatically. Read our editorial standards.
