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Christian Borromeo | |
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| Born | Christian Borromeo |
| Occupation | TV and film actor |
| Years active | 1976–1997 |
Christian Borromeo is a retired Italian actor. [1] [2] He made several feature films, perhaps best known for Ruggero Deodato's The House on the Edge of the Park , and Dario Argento's Tenebrae .
Borromeo began his career with a part in the Italian film Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga in 1976.
Then he went on to star as 'Germano' in the 1979 erotic comedy Ups and Downs of a Super Stud (Pensione Amore Servizio Completo) directed by Luigi Russo.
In 1980, he starred in Ruggero Deodato's ensemble-thriller The House on the Edge of the Park , and in 1982 he also played a brief, but major supporting part in Dario Argento's giallo-slasher Tenebrae , [3] [4] and the same year also managed to play the part of 'Lotario' in Ehrengard by director Emidio Greco.
He effectively ended his acting career in 1997, with his last movie-appearance in the TV-movie Inquietudine.
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