# Sydne Rome

Sydne Rome (born March 17, 1946) 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. 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's 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)
* Merry-Go-Round [de] (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)
* Il faut vivre dangereusement [fr] (Claude Makovski [fr], 1975)
* Wanted: Babysitter (René Clément, 1975)
* Hugs and Other Things [de] (Jochen Richter [de], 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)
* Looping [de] (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)
* Lourdes [it] (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)