Sydne Rome Explained
Sydne Rome |
Birth Date: | 17 March 1951 |
Birth Place: | Akron, Ohio, U.S |
Occupation: | Actress |
Spouse: | |
Sydne Rome (born March 17, 1951) is an American-Italian film actress.[1] Her first name is often misspelled Sydney or Sidney.
Biography
Born in Akron, Rome grew up in a Jewish family in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Her father was president of a plastics corporation in the Akron area. She started her career in 1969 in the British movie Some Girls Do. She then appeared in Italian films, often playing the young, seemingly innocent American abroad, and also in Spaghetti Westerns. Subsequently she made forays into German film and television. Since the late 90s she has acted in Italian TV films and series.
At the beginnings of the 1980s, Rome became an icon of the aerobics craze and published workout videos as well as the album Aerobic Fitness Dancing, produced by Frank Farian and recorded in German, Spanish and Italian.[2] As a singer, she recorded the single "Angelo prepotente" (1980) in Italian, English ("For You") and German ("Wozu"). She also recorded a cover version of Marty Balin's hit "Hearts".
In 2009, Rome's face was disfigured in a car crash when her air bag exploded.[3]
In 1973, Rome married Emilio Lari; subsequently, she converted to Catholicism and married the gerontologist Roberto Bernabei.[4] [5] She has been living in her eponymous city, Rome, Italy, since the early 1970s. Bernabei and Rome have two grown children.[3]
Selected filmography
- Some Girls Do (Ralph Thomas, 1969)
- Sundance and the Kid (Duccio Tessari, 1969)
- So Long Gulliver (1970)
- Man Called Amen (Alfio Caltabiano, 1972)
- What? (Roman Polanski, 1972)
- (Otto Schenk, 1973)
- Creezy (Pierre Granier-Deferre, 1974)
- The Gamecock (La Sculacciata, Pasquale Festa Campanile, 1974)
- Order to Kill (Josè Gutiérrez Maesso, 1975)
- That Lucky Touch (Christopher Miles, 1975)
- (1975)
- (René Clément, 1975)
- (1975)
- The Twist (Claude Chabrol, 1976)
- Sex with a Smile (Sergio Martino, 1976)
- Il mostro (Luigi Zampa, 1977)
- Moi, fleur bleue (Éric Le Hung, 1977)
- Formula 1 La febbre della velocità (Speed Fever, Mario Morra 1978)
- Just a Gigolo (Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo, David Hemmings, 1979)
- The Pumaman (L'Uomo puma, Alberto De Martino, 1980)
- (Walter Bockmayer/ Rolf Buehrmann, 1981)
- Red Bells (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1982)
- Red Bells II (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1983)
- Romanza final (Gayarre) (José María Forqué, 1986)
- In the Heat of the Night (ep. Who Was Geli Bendl?, 1994)
- (TV, 2000)
- (TV, 2000)
- Saint Rita (TV, Giorgio Capitani, 2004)
- Callas e Onassis (TV, Giorgio Capitani, 2005)
- The Hideout (2007)
- Il figlio più piccolo (The Youngest Son, Pupi Avati, 2010)
- Il cuore grande delle ragazze (Pupi Avati, 2011)
- The Palace (Roman Polanski, 2023)
Notes and References
- Web site: Sydne Rome. International New York Times. https://web.archive.org/web/20131225145508/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/61307/Sydne-Rome. December 25, 2013. December 19, 2013.
- Web site: Sydne Rome – Aerobic Fitness Dancing (1983, Gatefold, Vinyl). Discogs. December 19, 2013.
- Web site: Sydne Rome talks about Today is another day: the accident, the daughters, the loves. Tips for Womens [sic]. November 11, 2020. June 2, 2021.
- Nomina del Medico personale del Santo Padre: Roberto Bernabei . Bollettino . Holy See Press Office . February 24, 2021 . February 25, 2021.
- News: Pentin . Edward . Pope's New Doctor: A Gerontologist Who Sees COVID as Normal Disease . November 18, 2021 . National Catholic Register . February 24, 2021 . Bernabei, 69, is married to American-Italian film actress and former showgirl, Sydne Rome, a convert to Catholicism....