Bart Ruspoli
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Bartolomeo Sebastian "Bart" Ruspoli (born 8 November 1976 in London) is an Italian and English actor.
Career
Bart Ruspoli trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, where he graduated in 1998. He is also the writer and Producer of two of the films he was in.
Filmography
- 2point4 children (1 episode, "The Italian Job", 1998) .... Fabrizio
- Heartbeat (1 episode, "Wise Guys", 2000) .... Marco Mazzetti
- Fish (1 episode, "Another Shade of White", 2000) .... Antonio - pizza delivery boy
- Jack Brown and the Curse of the Crown (2001) .... Malook
- Dead Creatures (2001) (V) .... Christian
- Band of Brothers (3 episodes, "Carentan", "Currahee" and "Day of Days", 2001) TV mini-series .... Pvt. Edward Tipper
- The Long Night (2002) (V) .... Joe (also Writer and Producer)
- Four (2002) (TV) .... Nick (also Writer and Producer)
- Ghost Master (2003) (VG) .... Ghostmaster (Italian version)
- Venus Drowning (2005) .... John
- Empire (2005) TV mini-series .... Principe
- Rome (2 episodes, "The Stolen Eagle" and "How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic", 2005) .... Antony's Tribune
- Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes (2006) (TV) .... Doctor
- I Said So Little (2006) (V) .... Postman
- EastEnders (5 episodes, 2007) .... Marco
- Mixed Up (2009) .... Mike
- The Devil's Playground (2010) .... Matt
Personal life
He is the great-grandson of Mario Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa, great-great-nephew of Bartolomeo Ruspoli, and wife Pauline Marie Palma de Talleyrand-Périgord, great-great-great-niece of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. He is 6' 1" (1.85 m). Ruspoli is also a fifth cousin of occasional actor Alessandro Ruspoli, 9th Prince of Cerveteri and once removed of his son director Tao Ruspoli, son of actress Debra Berger and used to be married to actress Olivia Wilde. He is the oldest son of Costantino Filippo Maria dei Principi Ruspoli dei Principi di Poggio Suasa, born in New York City, New York on 23 April 1947, by Maria Consuelo (Lily) Child-Villiers of the Earls of Jersey, born on 21 August 1953, a former niece by marriage of Virginia Cherrill and paternal granddaughter of George Child Villiers, 8th Earl of Jersey, who despite their equal aristocratic birth never married to each other. Bart married Dr Vanessa Schjelderup in June 2012.
His second cousin (first cousin once removed) is actor, writer and producer William Villiers, 10th Earl of Jersey.
During the 2008 Festival de Cannes, in what later transpired to be an interview, Ruspoli revealed to GQ magazine that he has an IQ of 68. After the interview was published Ruspoli released a press statement as follows.
"now that everyone now's about my eyecue i have nothing to hid anymore.i used to be so worried that people if they found out would think i was a nidiot.i used to be ...[sic] on my self before i did any actting or actting stuff encase people found out.but the pubic support is amazing.not everyone like me is as lucky as me.I have worked with noel edmonds and dany dier so i have made it.i dont have to pay any tax because i just fold my company's lol.so i thought maybe i should give some thing back to the people who are like me.that is why i am setting up a new charitie called SO THICK IT HURTS"
The Pen-is Campaign
In 2013, STIH launched its first international campaign to collect broken pens from the public. In the words of Ruspoli:
"I was sitting in the sauna at spartans just after doing a long training session when i had a idear.what could people do to help the work of SFIH??? then i have another idear.at home i have loads and loads of pens but they keep breaking when i take them in the bath or use them to mix my power shakes. everyone sayz that the pen is mightier than the word so why not use them!!! if everyone could send in there broken pens then may be we could really do some good lol!!!"
At the time of publishing, it is estimated that STIH is now in possession of nearly 2 million broken writing implements, smashing Ruspoli's goal of "a thousand hundred pens". It is unclear how STIH intends to use this hoard to help its beneficiaries.
See also
References
External links
- Bart Ruspoli at IMDb