Barbara De Rossi

Barbara De Rossi
Born	(1960-08-09) 9 August 1960 (age 65) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Actress
Spouses	Andrea Busiri Vici ​ ​ (m. 1988;div. 1990)​ Branislav Tesanovic ​ ​ (m. 1995;div. 2010)​ Simone Fratini ​ (m. 2023)​

Barbara De Rossi (born 9 August 1960) is an Italian actress who has combined a career in international cinema with longstanding popularity in Italian television.

Biography

Barbara De Rossi was born in 1960 in Rome to an Italian wine importer and his German wife. She spent many of her early years in Rimini. ^[1]

At the age of 15, De Rossi was spotted by director Alberto Lattuada in a beauty contest. Her film debut was in Lattuada's Stay As You Are (1978), alongside Marcello Mastroianni and Nastasia Kinski. She went on to play Virna Lisi's screen daughter in La Cicala (The Cricket) in 1980, again directed by Lattuada. In 1983, she played Bradamante, the famous female warrior, in Hearts and Armour directed by Giacomo Battiato. By the mid-1980s, she was gaining English-speaking roles such as the beautiful Greek slave girl Eunice in the TV miniseries Quo Vadis? and Claretta Petacci, Mussolini's mistress in the docudrama Mussolini and I alongside the actors Anthony Hopkins (Count Galeazzo Ciano) and Bob Hoskins (Mussolini). ^{[2] [3]} In 1990 she played Nys, a Montmartre prostitute, in Claude Chabrol's French-language film Quiet Days in Clichy , a dramatisation of Henry Miller's semiautobiographical novel based on his time in Paris. She has worked in film, theatre, and television since her debut, such as starring alongside Ray Lovelock in Raiuno's TV film Marco e Giulia – Inviati Speciali (Mark and Julia, Special Envoys). ^[4]

In 1994, De Rossi shared the David di Donatello for Best Actress award with Asia Argento and Chiara Caselli for her part in the comic film Sentimental Maniacs . De Rossi has served as a judge on the junior talent show Ti lascio una canzone broadcast on Rai Uno since 2008.

Personal life

In 1988, De Rossi married Andrea Busiri Vici, scion of a famous architectural dynasty. They were divorced in 1990. ^[1] She has a daughter from her second husband, the Serbian dancer Branislav "Branko" Tesanovic. ^[2] She considers herself Roman Catholic. ^[5]

Public life

De Rossi is honorary president of "I Diritti Civili nel 2000", a civil-rights organization representing the interests of women and children. ^[6]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1978	Stay As You Are	Ilaria Marengo
1980	The Cricket	Saveria, la figlia di Wilma
1983	Son contento	Bradamante
1983	Hearts and Armour	Bradamante
1984	La piovra	Contessa Raffaella 'Titti' Pecci Scialoia	6 episodes
1985	Quo Vadis?	Eunice	6 episodes
1985	Mamma Ebe	Laura Bonetti
1985	Mussolini and I	Claretta Petacci	4 episodes
1985	Juke box
1986	Blood Ties	Louisa Masseria	TV movie
1987	Frankenstein's Aunt	Klara	7 episodes
1987	Sweets from a Stranger	Lena
1987	Pehavý Max a strasidlá	Klára
1987	Grosso guaio a Cartagena	Vanessa Valverde
1987	Vado a riprendermi il gatto
1988	Vampire in Venice	Helietta Canins
1988	Angela come te	Angela
1989	L'orchestre rouge	Georgie
1990	Quiet Days in Clichy	Nys
1990	Nel giardino delle rose	Sonia
1992	Il giardino dei ciliegi	Vania
1994	Sentimental Maniacs	Mara
1995	Vörös Colibri	Anna
1998	A Bedfull of Foreigners	Ursula Dieterman
2003	Babiy Yar	Natalya Lerner
2003	Il pranzo della domenica	Barbara Proietti
2007	Matrimonio alle Bahamas	Maga
2013	Universitari - Molto più che amici	Angela Mastropasqua
2014	Con tutto l'amore che ho	Lisa's mother
2016	Tutto può accadere nel villaggio dei miracoli	Dottoressa Anselmi
2016	Il Criminologo	Grazia Deledda

References

1. "Miti del cinema: Barbara de Rossi". Archived from the original on 29 May 2010. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
2. "Rai Uno De Rossi/Di Pasquale- Ballando con le stelle". www.rai.it. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
3. "Barbara De Rossi". Ecodelcinema (in Italian). 9 July 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
4. "Marco e Giulia - inviati speciali". www.film.it (in Italian). Retrieved 19 January 2021.
5. Giordano, Lucio (26 September 2025). "Mi arrabbiai con Lui quando quando si portò via mia madre, ma poi ho capito e L'ho ritrovato". Dipiù (in Italian). No. 38. pp. 78–81.
6. Smiraglia, Rossella (30 September 2014). "Barbara De Rossi: L'Amore è un'altra cosa. Premio per l'impegno in difesa delle donne". Il Profumo della Dolce Vita (in Italian). Retrieved 19 January 2021.

External links

• Barbara De Rossi at IMDb