Barbara De Rossi

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Barbara De Rossi
Born (1960-08-09) 9 August 1960
Rome, Italy
OccupationActress
Spouses
    Andrea Busiri Vici
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    (m. 1988; div. 1990)​
      Branislav Tesanovic
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      (m. 1995; div. 2010)​
        Simone Fratini
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        (m. 2023)​

        Barbara De Rossi (born 9 August 1960) is an Italian actress who has combined a career in international cinema with longstanding popularity in Italian television.

        Biography

        Barbara De Rossi was born in 1960 in Rome to an Italian wine importer and his German wife. She spent many of her early years in Rimini.[1]

        At the age of 15, De Rossi was spotted by director Alberto Lattuada in a beauty contest. Her film debut was in Lattuada's Stay As You Are (1978), alongside Marcello Mastroianni and Nastasia Kinski. She went on to play Virna Lisi's screen daughter in La Cicala (The Cricket) in 1980, again directed by Lattuada. In 1983, she played Bradamante, the famous female warrior, in Hearts and Armour directed by Giacomo Battiato. By the mid-1980s, she was gaining English-speaking roles such as the beautiful Greek slave girl Eunice in the TV miniseries Quo Vadis? and Claretta Petacci, Mussolini's mistress in the docudrama Mussolini and I alongside the actors Anthony Hopkins (Count Galeazzo Ciano) and Bob Hoskins (Mussolini).[2][3] In 1990 she played Nys, a Montmartre prostitute, in Claude Chabrol's French-language film Quiet Days in Clichy, a dramatisation of Henry Miller's semiautobiographical novel based on his time in Paris. She has worked in film, theatre, and television since her debut, such as starring alongside Ray Lovelock in Raiuno's TV film Marco e Giulia – Inviati Speciali (Mark and Julia, Special Envoys).[4]

        In 1994, De Rossi shared the David di Donatello for Best Actress award with Asia Argento and Chiara Caselli for her part in the comic film Sentimental Maniacs. De Rossi has served as a judge on the junior talent show Ti lascio una canzone broadcast on Rai Uno since 2008.

        Personal life

        In 1988, De Rossi married Andrea Busiri Vici, scion of a famous architectural dynasty. They were divorced in 1990.[1] She has a daughter from her second husband, the Serbian dancer Branislav "Branko" Tesanovic.[2] She considers herself Roman Catholic.[5]

        Public life

        De Rossi is honorary president of "I Diritti Civili nel 2000", a civil-rights organization representing the interests of women and children.[6]

        Filmography

        Year Title Role Notes
        1978Stay As You AreIlaria Marengo
        1980The CricketSaveria, la figlia di Wilma
        1983Son contentoBradamante
        1983Hearts and ArmourBradamante
        1984La piovraContessa Raffaella 'Titti' Pecci Scialoia6 episodes
        1985Quo Vadis?Eunice6 episodes
        1985Mamma EbeLaura Bonetti
        1985Mussolini and IClaretta Petacci4 episodes
        1985Juke box
        1986Blood TiesLouisa MasseriaTV movie
        1987Frankenstein's AuntKlara7 episodes
        1987Sweets from a StrangerLena
        1987Pehavý Max a strasidláKlára
        1987Grosso guaio a CartagenaVanessa Valverde
        1987Vado a riprendermi il gatto
        1988Vampire in VeniceHelietta Canins
        1988Angela come teAngela
        1989L'orchestre rougeGeorgie
        1990Quiet Days in ClichyNys
        1990Nel giardino delle roseSonia
        1992Il giardino dei ciliegiVania
        1994Sentimental ManiacsMara
        1995Vörös ColibriAnna
        1998A Bedfull of ForeignersUrsula Dieterman
        2003Babiy YarNatalya Lerner
        2003Il pranzo della domenicaBarbara Proietti
        2007Matrimonio alle BahamasMaga
        2013Universitari - Molto più che amiciAngela Mastropasqua
        2014Con tutto l'amore che hoLisa's mother
        2016Tutto può accadere nel villaggio dei miracoliDottoressa Anselmi
        2016Il CriminologoGrazia Deledda

        References

        1. "Miti del cinema: Barbara de Rossi". Archived from the original on 29 May 2010. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
        2. "Rai Uno De Rossi/Di Pasquale- Ballando con le stelle". www.rai.it. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
        3. "Barbara De Rossi". Ecodelcinema (in Italian). 9 July 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
        4. "Marco e Giulia - inviati speciali". www.film.it (in Italian). Retrieved 19 January 2021.
        5. Giordano, Lucio (26 September 2025). "Mi arrabbiai con Lui quando quando si portò via mia madre, ma poi ho capito e L'ho ritrovato". Dipiù (in Italian). No. 38. pp. 78–81.
        6. Smiraglia, Rossella (30 September 2014). "Barbara De Rossi: L'Amore è un'altra cosa. Premio per l'impegno in difesa delle donne". Il Profumo della Dolce Vita (in Italian). Retrieved 19 January 2021.