Sydne Rome
Sydne Rome (born March 17, 1946. Pronunciation SID-nee ROHM) 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.
Sydne Rome

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- Name
- Sydne Rome
- Born
- 17 March 1946
- Birthplace
- Akron, Ohio, U.S
- Occupation
- Actress
- Nationality
- United States · Italy
- Languages
- English · Italian
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Sydne Rome (born March 17, 1946. Pronunciation SID-nee ROHM) 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.
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Sydne Rome (born 1951) is an actress, model and musician, among other activities, of Italian and American nationality. The actress was born in Akron. Sydne Rome worked in Rome. Languages used include English and Italian.
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• Name — Sydne Rome • Born — 17 March 1946 • Birthplace — Akron, Ohio, U.S • Occupation — Actress
Biography
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 (Lisa Moira Sarah Rome, 1957-2019). 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" (1980) in Italian, English ("For You") and German ("Wozu"). She also recorded a cover version of Marty Balin's hit "Hearts".
Personal life
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
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 (1973 film) (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 (Claude Makovski, 1975) • Wanted: Babysitter (René Clément, 1975) • Hugs and Other Things (Jochen Richter, 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 (1980 film) (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 (2000 film) (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)
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- 1.Valery, Bernard (March 10, 1974). "Sydne Rome Is Her Name ... Sex Goddess Is Her Game". New York Sunday News. p. L1. Retrieved January 28, 2025. "The latest entry in the field is Sydne Rome, a 27-year-old golden girl from the American Midwest [...] 'After high school in Akron, I went to Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh to study theater. After that, I went to work in the Pasadena Playhouse. We played everything—Shakespeare, Chekhov, Tennessee Williams.' Sydne's first stab at movies was a disappointment. A Hollywood agent sent her to Rome to try out for the title role in "Candy" but she lost out to Swedish actress Ewa Aulin. Sydne returned to Pasadena, and worked there for about a year before returning to Europe and making her first movie- 'Some Girls Do,' a British production filmed in Spain.
- 2.Mann, Anthony (June 3, 1979). "On the Outskirts of Sydne: Her sultry looks have given actress Sydne Rome a sex-bomb image she prefers to disown; 'You can't stop people thinking about you in sex terms, can you?'". Sunday Telegraph Magazine. pp. 47, 48. Retrieved January 27, 2025. "She was born in Akron, Ohio, on March 17, 1946. [...] Rome's father, who still likes to talk Yiddish, owned a plastics factory in Akron. But she was brought up in neighbouring Upper Sandusky [...] She fled from this environment at the age of 17 and enrolled in the Carnegie Tech school of acting at Pittsburgh University. Her first stage job was at Pasadena Playhouse in California, where she was noticed by an agent who flew her to Rome for a screen test for the title role of Candy, which was ultimately played by Ewa Aulin."
- 3.Sydne Rome. International New York Times.
- 4.O'Connor, Carroll (1998). I Think I'm Outta Here: A Memoir of All My Families. New York: Pocket Books. pp.278–279. . "Sydne Rome the actress—an American, close friend, who built her career in Europe—and her husband, Dr. Roberto Bernabei, who think of us as their family, welcomed us into their apartment in Via Sabatino."
- 5.Malleck, Bonnie. It's a family affair : Burgess, Fox among Rita's friends. The Record. 15. December 9, 1994.
- 6.Gifford, Denis (2000). British Film Catalogue, Volume 1: Fiction Films, 1895—1994. London: Routledge. p. 783. . "12790, Some Girls Do (93 min) [...] Maurice Denham — Sir Dudley Mortimer; Robert Morley — Miss Mary; Sydney Rome — Flicky" See also: * Slifkin, Irv (2004). VideoHound's Groovy Movies : Far-out Films of the Psychedelic Era. Detroit : Visible Ink. p. 12. . "Some Girls Do: 1969 88m/C UK Richard Johnson, Daliah Lavi, James Villiers, Robert Morley, Sydney Rome, Beba Loncar, Vanessa Howard, Joanna Lumley." * Gett, Steve (1985). Julio Iglesias : The New Valentino. Port Chester, NY : Cherry Lane Books. p. 11. . "Julio has been seen escorting countless stunning belles of all nationalities. The gossip columns have been swift to document his alleged affairs with stars like Priscilla Presley and Sydney Rome, as well as models and glamor girls." * Lujan, Nestor; Caballero, Oscar; Casas, Carmen; Botaya, Guillermina (1988). Allegro Vivace: The History of Champagne, Cava and the Sparkling Wines of the World. Barcelona : J.W. Thompson. pp. 204, 205. "Stills of Freixenet television commercials involving stars of the showbizz: Liza Minnelli (1977), Gene Kelly (1981), Cheryl Ladd (1982) and Sydney Rome (1980). [...] Leopoldo Pomés discusses final details with Sydney Rome before shooting the Freixenet spot." * Robinson, Lisa (Winter 1979). "I'd Be a Terrible Rock Artist' Says David Bowie" Part 2. Hit Parader Annual. p. 75. "Along with Hemmings and Bowie, the film’s stars include Sydney Rome, Maria Schell and Kim Novack [sic]"
- 7.Shoot Ends. Screen International. 15. October 1977.
- 8.Morales, Thomas. Goodbye Mr Hefner!. Causeur. 28 September 2017.
- 9.Sydne Rome – Aerobic Fitness Dancing (1983, Gatefold, Vinyl). Discogs. 1983.
- 10.Holy See Press Office. Nomina del Medico personale del Santo Padre: Roberto Bernabei. Bollettino. February 24, 2021.
- 11.Pentin, Edward. Pope's New Doctor: A Gerontologist Who Sees COVID as Normal Disease. National Catholic Register. February 24, 2021.
- 12.Sydne Rome talks about Today is another day: the accident, the daughters, the loves. Tips for Womens [sic]. November 11, 2020.
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