Sydne Rome
Sydne Rome 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 August 1977 Playboy Playmate Julia Lyndon. After attending high school in Akron, Sydne went to Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh to study acting. A subsequent apprenticeship with the Pasadena Playhouse in California broadened Rome's acting skills and she caught the eye of an agent, resulting in a transatlantic flight for what would ultimately prove an unsuccessful 1968 audition for the role of Candy titular protagonist. After an additional year of Playhouse work, Rome made her film debut in the 1969 British spy comedy Some Girls Do. She then began appearing mostly in Italian films, with roles in Spaghetti Westerns and other genres; often playing the young, seemingly innocent American abroad. Subsequently, Rome appeared in German films and television. Since the late 1990s she has acted in Italian TV films and series.At the beginning of the 1980s, Rome became an icon of the aerobics craze and produced workout videos as well as an album, Aerobic Fitness Dancing, produced by Frank Farian and recorded in German, Spanish and Italian. As a singer, she recorded the single "Angelo prepotente" in Italian, English and German. She also recorded a cover version of Marty Balin's hit "Hearts".
Personal life
In 1973, Rome married Emilio Lari; subsequently, she converted to Catholicism, divorced, and married gerontologist Roberto Bernabei. She has been living in Rome since the early 1970s. Bernabei and Rome have two grown children.In 2009, Rome's face was disfigured in an accident when her car's air bag exploded.
Selected filmography
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