Sydne Rome

Sydne Rome (born March 17, 1946. prounciation SID-nee ROHM)Valery, Bernard (March 10, 1974)
"Sydne Rome Is Her Name ... Sex Goddess Is Her Game"
''New York Sunday News''. p. L1. Retrieved January 28, 2025. "The latest entry in the field is Sydne Rome, a 27-year-old golden girl from the American Midwest ..'After high school in Akron, I went to Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh to study theater. After that, I went to work in the Pasadena Playhouse. We played everything—Shakespeare, Chekhov, Tennessee Williams.' Sydne's first stab at movies was a disappointment. A Hollywood agent sent her to Rome to try out for the title role in "Candy" but she lost out to Swedish actress Ewa Aulin. Sydne returned to Pasadena, and worked there for about a year before returning to Europe and making her first movie- 'Some Girls Do,' a British production filmed in Spain.Mann, Anthony (June 3, 1979). "On the Outskirts of Sydne: Her sultry looks have given actress Sydne Rome a sex-bomb image she prefers to disown
'You can't stop people thinking about you in sex terms, can you?'"
''Sunday Telegraph Magazine''. pp. 47
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Retrieved January 27, 2025. "She was born in Akron, Ohio, on March 17, 1946. ..Rome's father, who still likes to talk Yiddish, owned a plastics factory in Akron. But she was brought up in neighbouring Upper Sandusky ..She fled from this environment at the age of 17 and enrolled in the Carnegie Tech school of acting at Pittsburgh University. Her first stage job was at Pasadena Playhouse in California, where she was noticed by an agent who flew her to Rome for a screen test for the title role of Candy, which was ultimately played by Ewa Aulin." is an American-Italian film actress, who has, with one notable exception, worked exclusively in Europe. Her first name is often misspelled ''Sydney'' or ''Sidne''.

Biography

Born in Akron, Rome grew up in a Jewish family in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Her father was president of a plastics corporation in the Akron area. Her younger sister was Playboy Playmate Julia Lyndon (Lisa Moira Sarah Rome 1957-2019). After attending high school in Akron, she went to Pittsburgh's Carnegie Tech to study acting. A subsequent apprenticeship with the Pasadena Playhouse both broadened Rome's acting horizons and, in one notable instance, caught the eye of an agent, resulting in a transatlantic flight for what would ultimately prove an unsuccessful audition for the role of ''Candy'' titular protagonist. Following one additional year of Playhouse honing, Rome began her film career in earnest with the 1969 British spy comedy '' Some Girls Do''. She then appeared in Italian films, often playing the young, seemingly innocent American abroad, and also in Spaghetti Westerns. 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 aerobics craze and published workout videos as well as the album ''Aerobic Fitness Dancing'', produced by Frank Farian 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 Marty Balin's hit " Hearts".

In 2009, Rome's face was disfigured in a car crash when her air bag exploded.

In 1973, Rome married Emilio Lari; subsequently, she converted to Catholicism and married the gerontologist Roberto Bernabei. She has been living in Rome since the early 1970s. Bernabei and Rome have two grown children.

Selected filmography

* '' Some Girls Do'' (Ralph Thomas, 1969)
* '' Sundance and the Kid'' (Duccio Tessari, 1969)
* '' So Long Gulliver'' (1970)
* '' Man Called Amen'' (Alfio Caltabiano, 1972)
* '' What?'' (Roman Polanski, 1972)
* ' (Otto Schenk, 1973)
* '' Creezy'' (Pierre Granier-Deferre, 1974)
* '' The Gamecock'' (''La Sculacciata'', Pasquale Festa Campanile, 1974)
* '' Order to Kill'' ( Josè Gutiérrez Maesso, 1975)
* '' That Lucky Touch'' ( Christopher Miles, 1975)
* ' (, 1975)
* '' Wanted: Babysitter'' (René Clément, 1975)
* ' (, 1975)
* '' The Twist'' (Claude Chabrol, 1976)
* '' Sex with a Smile'' (Sergio Martino, 1976)
* '' Il mostro'' (Luigi Zampa, 1977)
* '' Moi, fleur bleue'' ( Éric Le Hung, 1977)
* '' Formula 1 La febbre della velocità'' (Speed Fever, Mario Morra 1978)
* '' Just a Gigolo'' (''Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo'', David Hemmings, 1979)
* '' The Pumaman'' (''L'Uomo puma'', Alberto De Martino, 1980)
* ' ( Walter Bockmayer/ Rolf Buehrmann, 1981)
* '' Red Bells'' (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1982)
* '' Red Bells II'' (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1983)
* '' Romanza final (Gayarre)'' (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)
* '' Il figlio più piccolo'' (''The Youngest Son'', Pupi Avati, 2010)
* '' Il cuore grande delle ragazze'' (Pupi Avati, 2011)
* ''The Palace'' (Roman Polanski, 2023)

References

External links

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Living people
1946 births
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