Barbara De Rossi | |
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| Born | 9 August 1960 Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | Actress |
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.
Barbara De Rossi | |
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| Born | 9 August 1960 Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | Actress |
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.
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.
In 1988, De Rossi married Andrea Busiri Vici, scion of a famous architectural dynasty. They were divorced in 1990. [1] De Rossi's second husband is the dancer Branislav Tesanovic with whom she has a daughter. [2]
De Rossi is honorary president of "I Diritti Civili nel 2000", a civil-rights organization representing the interests of women and children. [5]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 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 |
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