Kim Rossi Stuart

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Kim Rossi Stuart in Tokyo (2007)

Kim Rossi Stuart (born October 31, 1969 in Rome , Italy ) is an Italian film and theater actor and film director .

Life

The son of the film actor Giacomo Rossi Stuart and a former photo model grew up with his three sisters Ombretta, Valentina and Loretta. At the age of five he made his film debut in Mauro Bolognini's drama Die Affäre Murri ( Fatti di gente perbene , 1974).

It was not until ten years later in 1984 that he could be seen again in front of the film camera . During the filming of the ten-part television series Die Höhlenkinder (TV series, 1984) ( I Ragazzi della valle misteriosa ), based on the youth book trilogy of the same name by the Bohemian writer Alois Theodor Sonnleitner , he met his childhood friend Veronica Logan, with whom he was in a relationship for several years was. Contrary to the expectations of his parents, Rossi Stuart then studied acting and therefore dropped out of school. However, he trained as an autodidact continues and speaks his native language, Italian and English and French . One of his first film roles, which he received while studying, was the supporting role of a novice in Jean-Jacques Annaud's successful literary film The Name of the Rose ( The Name of the Rose , 1986).

The role with which he became known in German-speaking countries, however, was that of Prince Romualdo in Lamberto Bava's fantasy series Princess Fantaghirò ( Fantaghirò , 1991-1993). In 1995 he was also seen in Michelangelo Antonioni's star-studded episode film Beyond the Clouds ( Al di là delle nuvole ) alongside John Malkovich , Fanny Ardant , Jean Reno and Sophie Marceau .

In the last few years, Rossi Stuart has become increasingly active in the theater . The best-known plays in which he participated include King Lear and The Visit of the Old Lady . In 2006 he made his directorial debut with the film I never liked swimming ( Anche libero va bene ), for which he also wrote the screenplay and took on a leading role.

In 2008 he ran his motorboat over a diver near Civitavecchia . His right arm had to be amputated.

Filmography (selection)

actor

Giorgio Napolitano and Kim Rossi Stuart in the Quirinal Palace (2006)

Director

  • 2006: I've never liked swimming (Anche libero va bene)
  • 2016: Tommaso

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Italian film star runs over diver in an inflatable boat , spiegel.de , July 6, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Rossi Stuart, Kim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film and theater actor and film director
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy