Sydne Rome
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Sydne Rome (born March 17, 1951) is a United States-born, Italy-based film actress. Her first name is often misspelled Sydney or Sidney.
Born in Akron, Rome grew up in a wealthy family in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Her father was president of a very successful Akron area plastics corporation. She started her career as early as 1969 in the British movie Some Girls Do. She then appeared in a series of Italian films, often playing the young, seemingly innocent American abroad, and also in some spaghetti westerns. Subsequently she also made forays into the German film and television market.
In the early 1980s Rome became an icon of the aerobics craze and published several workout videos. As a singer, she recorded the single "Angelo prepotente" (1980) for the Italian market and also released English ("For You") and German ("Wozu") versions of this song. She also recorded a cover version of Marty Balin's hit "Hearts".
In 1973 she married Emilio Lari; she has been living in Italy since the early 1970s.
[edit] Select filmography
- Some Girls Do (Ralph Thomas, 1969)
- Vivi o, preferibilmente, morti (Duccio Tessari, 1969)
- What? (Roman Polanski, 1972)
- Reigen (Otto Schenk, 1973) (a remake of Max Ophüls's 1950 film La Ronde, based on Schnitzler's play)
- Jeune fille libre le soir (René Clément, 1975)
- Umarmungen und andere Sachen (Jochen Richter, 1975)
- Folies bourgeoises (Claude Chabrol, 1976)
- Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo (Just a Gigolo) (David Hemmings, 1979)
- L’Uomo puma (The Pumaman) (1980)
- Looping
- Papa Giovanni — Ioannes XXIII (Giorgio Capitani, 2002) (made-for-TV movie)
- Soraya (Lodovico Gasparini, 2003) (made-for-TV movie about Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari)
- Callas e Onassis (Giorgio Capitani, 2005) (made-for-TV movie about Maria Callas and Aristoteles Onassis)
