Kim Rossi Stuart
Kim Rossi Stuart (born 31 October 1969 in Rome, Italy ) is an Italian film and theater actor and film director.
Life
The son of movie actor Giacomo Rossi Stuart and a former fashion model grew up with his three sisters Ombretta, Valentina and Loretta. At the age of five years, he made his film debut in Mauro Bologninis Drama The affair Muri ( Fatti di gente perbene, 1974).
It was not until ten years later in 1984, he was seen again in front of the movie camera. During the filming of the ten -part television series The cave kids (I Ragazzi della valle misteriosa ), based on the eponymous children's book trilogy of the Czech writer Alois Theodor Sonnleitner, he met his childhood friend Veronica Logan, with whom he was romantically involved for several years. Contrary to the expectations of his parents studied Rossi Stuart then acting and therefore broke out of school. Nevertheless, he continued his education as an autodidact, he speaks his native language, Italian, English and French. One of his first film roles, which he received while studying, the supporting role of a novice in Jean -Jacques Annaud's successful literary adaptation was The Name of the Rose ( The Name of the Rose, 1986).
The role, however, with which he became known in the German-speaking world, was that of the Prince Romualdo Lamberto Bava in 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 recent years, Rossi Stuart has increasingly operated in the theater. Among the most famous pieces in which he participated, including King Lear and The Visit of the Old Lady. In 2006 he returned with the film I liked swimming never ( Anche libero va bene ) his directorial debut, for which he also wrote and starred took over.
In 2008 he drove near Civitavecchia a diver with his motorboat. Whose right arm had to be amputated.