Sydne Rome

Sydne Rome (born March 17, 1946) is or 1951? 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 well as the album "Aerobic Fitness Dancing", produced by Frank Farian and recorded in both German, Spanish and Italian. 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; subsequently, she married the noted gerontologist Roberto Bernabei. She has been living in Italy since the early 1970s.

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Senta Berger, Helmut Berger, Maria Schneider (from left to right) and Sydne Rome (front) on the DVD cover of Otto Schenk's Reigen (1973)

Select filmography

• Some Girls Do (Ralph Thomas, 1969)
• Vivi o, preferibilmente, morti (Duccio Tessari, 1969)
• What? (Roman Polanski, 1972)
• Der Reigen or Merry-Go-Round(in English) (Otto Schenk, 1973) (a remake of Max Ophüls's 1950 film La Ronde, based on Schnitzler's play)
• La race des Seigneurs (1974, by Pierre Granier-Deferre, also starring Alain Delon)
• That Lucky Touch (1975, by Christopher Miles, also starring Roger Moore and Susannah York)
• Jeune fille libre le soir (René Clément, 1975)
• Umarmungen und andere Sachen (Jochen Richter, 1975)
• Folies bourgeoises (Claude Chabrol, 1976)
• Sex with a Smile (Sergio Martino, 1976)
• Il mostro (1977)
• F1 La febbre della velocità (The Quick and the Dead) (Claude Du Boc, 1978)
• Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo (Just a Gigolo) (David Hemmings, 1979)
• L'Uomo puma (The Pumaman) (1980)
• Red Bells (1982)
• Red Bells II (1983)
• In the Heat of the Night (Who Was Geli Bendl?", 1994, Geli Bendl)
• 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)
• Il figlio più piccolo (The Youngest Son) (2010)

External links

• IMDb