Ilary Blasi (born 28 April 1981) is an Italian showgirl, model, television personality, and former child actress. She is married to Roma footballer Francesco Totti.
Born in Rome, she started her career at the age of three in an Italian commercial. When she was five years old she got her first part in the film David and David; then, at the age of six, she starred in Da grande by Franco Amurri and in Vizio di vivere by Dino Risi. Afterwards she worked in Fiori di zucca (1988) by Stefano Pomicia and La dolce casa degli orrori (1989) by Lucio Fulci.
After some other television programmes, she became a soubrette of Passaparola (Password). Then she started to work for RAI in programs such as Top of the pops, CD live and Che tempo che fa.
In 2006 she was the co-host of Festival di Sanremo, then worked again for Mediaset in the program Festivalbar with Cristina Chiabotto.
From 2007 to 2010, she was working on Italia 1’s hit show Le Iene with Luca Bizzarri and Paolo Kessisoglu. She also featured in Italian television commercials, advertising a popular mobile phone network operating company.
She is the second of three sisters; her older sister’s name is Silvia and her younger sister’s Melory. She married the World Cup-winning football player Francesco Totti on 19 June 2005; they have a son, Cristian (born on 6 November 2005), and a daughter, Chanel (born on 13 May 2007).
