Throughout history, the canons of beauty have been constantly changing. Almost every type of appearance and figure at one time or another was considered the standard to which the girls sought. Temperamental actress, model, fitness guru, singer Sidney Rum has firmly established herself on Soviet television of the 80s era. Admiring glances were riveted to the screens, men adored this beauty, and women aspired to the ideal, looking at her.
short biography
Sidney Rum was born in Akron, Ohio, USA, in the family of an industrialist on March 17, 1951. Her father was president of the largest plastic manufacturing facility. In 1970, she moved to Italy and still lives in Rome.
Sidney inherited a beautiful slender figure, bright appearance, sophisticated facial features, temperament and energy from her Italian ancestors. That is what contributed to its rapid popularity and success on the Star Trek in the 70s.
Bright charismatic blonde won the love of millions of viewers. Given that in the mid-80s, television became not only a source of information, but also entertainment, Sidney Rum became a real “Queen of TV”, especially after she appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine a couple of times.
She skillfully combined acting and vocal skills, physical development. In America, Europe, the USSR was known as a star of aerobics.
The actress is married twice:
- First marriage in 1973 with Emilio Lari.
- Since 1987, has been married to Italian architect Roberto Bernabei. They bring up two adopted children.
Film career and filmography
On the big screen, Sidney Rum made her debut at the age of 18 (1969) with the role of Flicky in the film "Some Girls" by English director Ralph Thomas. Some film critics believe that the actress performed her best roles in the 70s:
- "What?" - 1972 film of Roman Polansky;
- "Carousel" - a 1973 film by Otto Schnek;
- "The race of gentlemen" - a 1974 film by Pierre Granier-Defer;
- "The Babysitter" - 1975 film by Rene Clement;
- “The Madness of the Bourgeoisie” - a 1976 film by Claude Chabrol;
- "Monster" -1977;
- "Stop calling me baby!" - 1977, France;
- "Beautiful Gigolo, Poor Gigolo" - 1978 film by David Hemmings;
- "Red Bells" - 1982 film by Sergei Bondarchuk.
Since the mid-80s, Sidney has been actively starring in Italian TV shows. Throughout her career, she performs in major and minor roles in more than four dozen film works (detectives, thrillers, comedies, melodramas, erotic, historical films, westerns, horrors):
- Quo vadiz? - 1985 - France;
- "The Last Romance" - 1986 Spain;
- "The Land of Rules" - 1999 Spain
- "Lourdes" - 2001 film by Ludovico Gasparini;
- "Pope Giovanni - John XXIII" - 2002;
- "Callas and Onassis" - 2005 - a film by Giorgio Capitani;
- "Refuge" - 2009;
- "Big Girl Heart" - 2009;
- "Anna Karenina" - 2013
Her partners in the movie area were: Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean Yann, Lucia Bose, Alain Delon, Claude Brasser, Enrico Maria Salerno, Franco Nero, Aldo Machchon, Bernard Girodo, Maria Schneider and others. She participated not only in Italian and American film projects, but also starred in France, Russia, Spain, Britain, Germany.
In addition to working in films, Sidney Rum acts as a singer. She also recorded a video course of aerobics, which was broadcast on television.
Vocal data
In the 80s, Marty Balin's first solo album appeared, the compositions Angelo ptepotente and Hearts, written by Jersey Neil Barish, were especially successful. Sidney gained her fame as a singer precisely because of the performance of a cover version of the Hearts song.
The clip with blonde curly beauty flew almost the whole world, she became the favorite of music lovers, and her songs won popularity on Soviet screens.
"Sydney Rome" - sometimes this spelling of her name is found, but it is incorrect, true - Sydney (Sydne).
80s Fitness Guru
Aerobics has become the main direction among all sports "female disciplines" of the last decades of the past century. Tightened, slender supermodels are considered ideal, and in Russia and Europe, the boom of this sport direction has simply begun. Among the founders of this fitness movement was Sidney Rum. After she recorded her classes on video and began to broadcast them on various television channels, Sydney became a fitness guru and a competitor to the equally famous Jane Fonda.
Sydney demonstrated a program of aerobics classes to rhythmic musical compositions with her assistants. Training was later released in the form of audio and video recordings. The producer of the disc was Frank Farian, and the vocal trio LA MAMA and several guest artists created the musical accompaniment. Aerobic Fitness Dancing reached platinum status, and Let's Move Aerobic was soon released as a separate single.
Passion for Plastic Surgery
A bright actress, a spectacular woman, a sexy model over time could not come to terms with age-related changes in appearance. Therefore, Sidney Rum became an ardent fan of all kinds of anti-aging procedures and plastic surgery. The biography of the actress, unfortunately, includes the bitter truth of disappointments and failures of plastic changes.
After a series of endless suspenders and Botox, the actress lost not only her former natural charm, but also began to resemble a doll with an unnatural expression on her face. She is one of the 10 most famous women victims of plastic surgery. Now Sydney practically does not appear in public, leads a secluded lifestyle.