Luca Barbareschi

• Office — Member of the Chamber of Deputies • Term Start — 29 April 2008 • Term End — 4 March 2014 • Constituency — Sardinia • Name — Luca Barbareschi • Born — 28 July 1956 • Birthplace — Montevideo, Uruguay • Occupation — * Politician • television presenter • actor • Party — AN (2008–2010) PdL (2008–2010) FLI (2010–2011)

Barbareschi was born on 28 July 1956 in Montevideo, Uruguay, to Francesco Saverio, an engineer and former World War II partisan from Milan, and Maria Antonietta Hirsch, an economist of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. His parents divorced when he was six and he moved to Milan, where he attended the Leo XIII Institute during the 1960s. In 2008, he alleged that a Jesuit priest at the Institute had sexually abused him between the ages of eight and thirteen.

In 2008, Barbareschi was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies as a member of Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right party The People of Freedom. In 2010, he joined Gianfranco Fini's new party Future and Freedom with 32 other deputies and 10 senators. He left parliament in 2013.

As a child sexual abuse survivor, Barbareschi has advocated for the protection of victims of pedophilia. He established the Luca Barbareschi Foundation for this purpose, and he worked to pass an anti-pedophilia law while serving in parliament.

On 11 June 2012, during an interview for the program Le Iene, Barbareschi attacked journalist Filippo Roma and his cameraman, and stole Roma's cellphone. He attacked Roma again two months later in Filicudi. In 2022, Barbareschi was accused of homophobia after remarking that "the homosexual mafia is the problem" during a speech on April 30 in Sutri. He later claimed the comments were taken out of context and were intended as a joke, and that he himself had had homosexual experiences. Barbareschi has defended director Roman Polanski, with whom he has worked several times as a producer, against his sexual abuse conviction, claiming the case against him is due to "political correctness".

Barbareschi has been married twice. His first wife was Patrizia Fachini, with whom he has three daughters: Beatrice, Eleonora and Angelica. His second wife is Elena Monorchio, the daughter of former State Accountant General Andrea Monorchio; they married on June 20, 2015 and have two children: Maddalena (b. 2010) and Francesco Saverio (b. 2012). Barbareschi was previously in a seven-year-long relationship with actress Lucrezia Lante della Rovere.

Barbareschi practices Judaism.

• 1977 – Ultimo mondo cannibale • 1979 – From Corleone to Brooklyn • 1980 – Cannibal Holocaust as Mark • 1983 – Dream of a Summer Night • 1984 – Bank Clerks • 1986 – Monte Napoleone • 1987 – Private Affairs • 1988 – Bye Bye Baby • 1990 – In the Name of the Sovereign People • 1991 – L'amico arabo • 1992 – The Blonde • 1992 – Obiettivo indiscreto • 1994 – La delegazione • 1995 – La tenda nera • 1995 – La famiglia Ricordi • 1995 – Bits and Pieces • 1996 – Ardena • 1999 – The Frenchman's Son • 2002 – Il Trasformista • 2008 – The International • 2010 – We Believed • 2013 – Something Good (director, actor) • 2019 – Dolceroma (producer) • 2019 – An Officer and a Spy (producer) • 2021 – Appunti di un venditore di donne (producer) • 2022 – Ero in guerra ma non lo sapevo (producer) • 2023 – The Palace (producer) • Illustration — Luca Barbareschi with Ezio Greggio

• 1992 – Questo è amore • 1992 – That's Amore • 1997 – Trenta righe per un delitto • 1998 – Cronaca nera • 1999 – Jesus • 2000 – Greed • 2002 – Giorni da leone • 2003 – Una vita in regalo • 2004 – Rivoglio i miei figli • 2005 – Nebbie e delitti • 2005 – Les Rois maudits • 2006 – Giorni da leone 2 • 2006 – La profezia dei templari • 2007 – Nebbie e delitti 2 • 2009 – Nebbie e delitti 3 • 2012 – Nero Wolfe (producer) • 2013 – Le Iene con Botte da Orbi • 2015 – Pietro Mennea - La freccia del sud (fiction) • 2022 – Il grande gioco (producer)

• 2004 – Amadeus • 2006 – Il Sogno del Principe di Salina, l'Ultimo Gattopardo