Pirkko "Piitu" Uski (born 30 December 1967 Rovaniemi, Finland) is a Finnish actress. She is famous for the half-hour soap opera Salatut Elämät, where she plays Laura Kiviranta, a busy woman lawyer. She plays many different roles in theatre.Piitu has written a couple of cookbooks, for example Salatut (keittiö) elämät (Secret (kitchen) lives) with Susanna Laaksonen, a Finnish scriptwriter.Piitu gave her voice to some Fazer radio advertising.
Left Salatut elämät series in April 2008 for good after 9 years.
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Is one of the six original cast members who have acted in Salatut Elämät from straight the beginning to this day. The other five are Esko Kovero (Ismo Laitela), Jarmo Koski (Seppo Taalasmaa), Sanna Luostarinen (Elina Taalasmaa), Anu Palevaara (Jenni Vainio) and Jaana Saarinen (Maarit Salin). But only Esko Kovero and Jarmo Koski have acted all the time. Piitu Uski and Anu Palevaara was written out of the series in it's early years for a short period of time because they both had a baby. Their characters also had babies in the series. Jaana Saarinen left the series in 2004 but returned in 2007. Sanna Luostarinen had a short off duty in 2007 which lasted about two months.
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Has two daughters.
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Her character Laura Kiviranta in "Salatut elämät" became pregnant cover up Uski's own pregnancy.
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