Sydne Rome (born March 17, 1951) is an American-Italian film actress. Her first name is often misspelled ''Sydney'' or ''Sidney''.

Biography

Born in

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, Rome grew up in a wealthy, Jewish family in

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. Her father was president of a plastics corporation in the Akron area. She started her career in 1969 in the British movie ''

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''. She then appeared in Italian films, often playing the young, seemingly innocent American abroad, and also in

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s. Subsequently she made forays into German film and television. Since the late 90s she has acted in Italian TV films and series. At the beginnings of the 1980s, Rome became an icon of the

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craze and published workout videos as well as the album ''Aerobic Fitness Dancing'', produced by

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and recorded in German, Spanish and Italian. As a singer, she recorded the single "Angelo prepotente" (1980) in Italian, English ("For You") and German ("Wozu"). She also recorded a cover version of

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's hit " Hearts". At some point in her life, Rome's face was disfigured in a car crash. In 1973, Rome married Emilio Lari; subsequently, she converted to Catholicism and married the

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Roberto Bernabei. She has been living in her eponymous city,

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, Italy, since the early 1970s. Bernabei and Rome have two grown children.

Selected filmography

* ''

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, 1969) * ''

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, 1969) * '' So Long Gulliver'' (1970) * ''

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'' (

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, 1972) * '' What?'' (

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, 1972) * ' (''Merry-Go-Round'',

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, 1973) * '' Creezy'' (

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, 1974) * ''

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'' (''La Sculacciata'',

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, 1974) * '' Order to Kill'' ( Josè Gutiérrez Maesso, 1975) * ''

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, 1975) * ' (, 1975) * '' Wanted: Babysitter'' (

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, 1975) * ' ( Jochen Richter, 1975) * '' The Twist'' (

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, 1976) * ''

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, 1976) * '' Il mostro'' (

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, 1977) * ''

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, 1977) * '' Formula 1 La febbre della velocità'' (Speed Fever,

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1978) * '' Just a Gigolo'' (''Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo'',

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, 1979) * ''

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'' (''L'Uomo puma'',

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, 1980) * ' (

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/ Rolf Buehrmann, 1981) * '' Red Bells'' (

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, 1982) * ''

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'' (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1983) * ''

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'' (José María Forqué, 1986) * '' In the Heat of the Night'' (ep. ''Who Was Geli Bendl?'', 1994) * '' Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth'' (TV, 2000) * ' (TV, 2000) * '' Saint Rita'' (TV, Giorgio Capitani, 2004) * '' Callas e Onassis'' (TV, Giorgio Capitani, 2005) * '' The Hideout'' (2007) * ''

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'' (''The Youngest Son'',

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, 2010) * ''

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'' (Pupi Avati, 2011)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rome, Sydne 1951 births Living people American expatriates in Italy American film actresses American television actresses Jewish American actresses Italian film actresses Italian television actresses Actresses from Akron, Ohio Expatriate actresses in Italy American emigrants to Italy Catholics from Ohio Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism Italian Roman Catholics People from Upper Sandusky, Ohio