Dino Giarrusso

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

Dino Giarrusso MEP
Member of the European Parliament for Italian Islands
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2019[1][2]
Personal details
Born	(1974-09-11) September 11, 1974 (age 50) Catania, Italy
Political party	M5S (2018–2022) ScN (2022)
Alma mater	University of Siena
Occupation	Politician, TV correspondent, journalist, actor

Biography

Giarrusso was born on 11 September 1974 in Catania, Sicily. In 1997, he graduated in Communication Sciences at the University of Siena; he worked as a journalist, collaborating with 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]