Italian-Uruguayan actor, filmmaker, and politician
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Luca Giorgio Barbareschi (born July 28, 1956) is an Italian actor, filmmaker, businessman, and politician. He is known for playing Mark Tomaso in the 1980 Italian horror film Cannibal Holocaust. He also represented Sardinia in the Italian Chamber of Deputies between 2008 and 2014.
Barbareschi was born on July 28, 1956 in Montevideo, Uruguay, to Francesco Saverio, an engineer and former World War II partisan from Milan, and Maria Antonietta Hirsch, an economist of Ashkenazi Jewish descent.[1] His parents divorced when he was six and he moved to Milan, where he attended the Leo XIII Institute during the 1960s.[2] In 2008, he alleged that a Jesuit priest at the Institute had sexually abused him between the ages of eight and thirteen.[3]
While at the Actors Studio, Barbareschi was cast as cameraman Mark Tomaso in the film Cannibal Holocaust, directed by Ruggero Deodato.[4] The film was controversial for its graphic violence and realistic murder scenes which were initially speculated to be genuine[5] although, contrary to rumor, Deodato and the film's producers were never charged with murder.[6] Deodato himself has claimed that the actors who portrayed the murdered characters – including Barbareschi – were contracted to stay out of the public eye for a year after the film's release,[4][7] but cast member Carl Gabriel Yorke disputes this, and some of the other actors are known to have appeared in films released concurrently with, or shortly after, Cannibal Holocaust.[8]
As a child sexual abuse survivor,[3] Barbareschi has advocated for the protection of victims of pedophilia. He established the Luca Barbareschi Foundation for this purpose, and he worked to pass an anti-pedophilia law while serving in parliament.[9]
Controversies
On June 11, 2012, during an interview for the program Le Iene, Barbareschi attacked journalist Filippo Roma and his cameraman, and stole Roma's cellphone.[10] He attacked Roma again two months later in Filicudi.[10]
In 2022, Barbareschi was accused of homophobia after remarking that "the homosexual mafia is the problem" during a speech on April 30 in Sutri. He later claimed the comments were taken out of context and were intended as a joke, and that he himself had had homosexual experiences.[11][12][13][14]
Barbareschi has defended director Roman Polanski, with whom he has worked several times as a producer, against his sexual abuse conviction, claiming the case against him is due to "political correctness."[15][16]
Personal life
Marriages and relationships
Barbareschi has been married twice. His first wife was Patrizia Fachini, with whom he has three daughters: Beatrice, Eleonora and Angelica. His second wife is Elena Monorchio, the daughter of former State Accountant GeneralAndrea Monorchio[it]; they married on June 20, 2015 and have two children: Maddalena (b. 2010) and Francesco Saverio (b. 2012).
2006 – Il Sogno del Principe di Salina, l'Ultimo Gattopardo
References
1 2 Gramola, Gianfranco (2 December 2015). "Luca Barbareschi" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2020. Io sono ebreo e seguo la religione ebraica.[I'm a Jew and I follow Judaism.]
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