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.
Early life and career 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. 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, De Rossi 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). 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).
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. She has a daughter from her second husband, the Serbian dancer Branislav "Branko" Tesanovic. She considers herself Roman Catholic. De Rossi is honorary president of "I Diritti Civili nel 2000", a civil-rights organization representing the interests of women and children. Filmography Year Title Role Notes1978 Stay As You Are Ilaria Marengo 1980 The Cricket Saveria, la figlia di Wilma 1983 Son contento Bradamante 1983 Hearts and Armour Bradamante 1984 La piovra Contessa Raffaella 'Titti' Pecci Scialoia 6 episodes1985 Quo Vadis? Eunice 6 episodes1985 Mamma Ebe Laura Bonetti 1985 Mussolini and I Claretta Petacci 4 episodes1985 Juke box 1986 Blood Ties Louisa Masseria TV movie1987 Frankenstein's Aunt Klara 7 episodes1987 Sweets from a Stranger Lena 1987 Pehavý Max a strasidlá Klára 1987 Grosso guaio a Cartagena Vanessa Valverde 1987 Vado a riprendermi il gatto 1988 Vampire in Venice Helietta Canins 1988 Angela come te Angela 1989 L'orchestre rouge Georgie 1990 Quiet Days in Clichy Nys 1990 Nel giardino delle rose Sonia 1992 Il giardino dei ciliegi Vania 1994 Sentimental Maniacs Mara 1995 Vörös Colibri Anna 1998 A Bedfull of Foreigners Ursula Dieterman 2003 Babiy Yar Natalya Lerner 2003 Il pranzo della domenica Barbara Proietti 2007 Matrimonio alle Bahamas Maga 2013 Universitari - Molto più che amici Angela Mastropasqua 2014 Con tutto l'amore che ho Lisa's mother 2016 Tutto può accadere nel villaggio dei miracoli Dottoressa Anselmi 2016 Il Criminologo Grazia Deledda
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