Rubini, Sergio 1959-

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RUBINI, Sergio 1959-

PERSONAL: Born December 21, 1959, in Grumo Appula, Italy. Education: Attended the Italian National Acting Academy.

ADDRESSES: Home—via di Parione 11, 00186 Rome, Italy. Office—c/o studio Antonangeli, via Lutezia 5, 00198 Rome, Italy.

CAREER: Actor, director, and screenwriter. Actor in films, including (as Stefano) Desiderando Giulia, 1985; (as Giovanni Moro) Il caso Moro (also known as The Moro Affair), 1986; (as reporter) Intervista (also known as Frederico Fellini's Intervista), 1987, Castle Hill, 1992; (as Razzo) Il grande Blek, 1987; (as Marco Morelli) Figlio mio infinitamente caro (also known as My Dearest Son), 1987; Treno di panna (also known as Cream Train), 1988; Una notte, un sogno, 1988; I giorni randagi (also known as Stray Days), 1988; Mortacci (also known as Death to You and The Hateful Dead), 1989; (as Domenico) La Stazione (also known as The Station), CDI, 1990, subtitled version, Aries Film, 1992; Oltre l'oceano (also known as Beyond the Ocean), 1990; (as the hitchhiker) Chiedi la luna (also known as Ask for the Moon), Titanus, 1991; (as Tommaso) La bionda (also known as The Blonde), 1992; (as Vanni) Al lupo, al lupo (also known as Wolf! Wolf!), Pentafilm, 1992, Pentafilm, 1993; (as Roberto) Condannato a nozze (also known as Condemned to Wed), 1993; (as Andre the young policeman) Una pura formalità 1994 (also known as APure Formality, Sony Pictures Classics, 1994; (as Aldo) Prestazione straordinaria (also known as Disclosures: Italian Style), 1994; (as Roberto) Stori d'amore con i crampi (also known as Love Story with Cramps), 1995; Il cielo è sempre più blu (also known as Bits and Pieces), 1995; (as Joystick) Nirvana, Miramax, 1997; (as Bartolo) Il viaggio della sposa (also known as The Bride's Journey), Cecchi Gori Distribuzione, 1997; (as Massimo) L'albero delle pere (also known as The Pear Tree and Shooting the Moon), RaiTrade, 1998; (as madman) Ecco fatto (also known as That's It), 1998; (as Nelu) Die letzte Station (also known as The Last Stop), 1998; (as Italo) Del perduto amore (also known as Of Lost Love), CDI/Buena Vista, 1998; Panni Sporchi (also known as Dirty Linen), CDI, 1999; (as Inspector Roverini) The Talented Mr. Ripley, Paramount, 1999; (as Helmut) Mirka, Mikado, 1999; (as Carlo's father) Tutto l'amore che c'è (also known as All the Love There Is), Cecchi Gori Distribuzione, 2000; Giorni dispari, 2000; Scarlet Diva, 2000; (as Antonio) Denti (also known as Teeth), Cecchi Gori Distribuzione, 2000; (as Remo) A.A.A. Achille, 2001; (as Angelino) Amnèsia, 2002; (as Gianni Orzan) La forza del passato (also known as The Power of the Past), Istituto Luce, 2002; (as Angelantonio) L'anima gemella, 2002; and (as Dismas) The Passion, 2004.

Actor in television programs, including (as Bertuccio) Le comte de Monte Cristo (miniseries; also known as The Count of Monte Cristo), Bravo, 1998; (as Eugene Sue) Balzac (movie; also known as Balzac: A Life of Passion), Bravo, 1999; and (as Giacomo Leopardi) Chiara e dolce è la notte (miniseries), 1999. Director of radio adaptions of plays, including Hamlet and Faust.

AWARDS, HONORS: Silver Ribbon, Davide di Donatello, Italian Golden Globe, Grolla d'Oro, Fipresci prize, Golden Ciak, and Kodak prize, all for La stazione.

WRITINGS:

SCREENPLAYS

(With Umberto Marino and Fillippo Ascione; and director) La stazione, CDI, 1990, subtitled version released as The Station, Aries Film, 1992.

(With Umberto Marino and Fillippo Ascione; and director) La bionda (also known as The Blonde), Video Search of Miami, 1992.

(With Filippo Ascione, Fabrizio Bettelli, and Angelo Pasquini; and director) Prestazione straordinaria (also known as Disclosures: Italian Style), 1994.

(With Umberto Marino, Fillippo Ascione, and Raffaele Nigro; and director) Il viaggio della sposa (also known as The Bride's Journey), Cecchi Gori Distribuzione, 1997.

(With Domenico Starnone; and director) Tutto l'amore che c'è (also known as All the Love There Is), Cecchi Gori Distribuzione, 2000.

(With Domenico Starnone; and director) L'anima gemella (also known as Soul Mate), 2002.

The film Figli di Annibale (also known as Children of Hannibal), Medusa Distribuzione, 1998, was based on a story by Rubini.

SIDELIGHTS: Sergio Rubini, although best known as a comic actor, has also written and directed several of his own films. These include Il viaggio della sposa (The Bride's Journey), a seventeenth-century story of a lower-class but honorable man, played by Rubini, who must convey a chaste young woman safely from her former home in a convent school to the estate of her rich, noble fiancée after bandits attack the group of armed escorts her future husband had sent to accompany her. This "fanciful tale" is "safe family fare," Deborah Young noted in a review for Variety.

Rubini also wrote the screenplay for Tutto l'amore che c'è (All the Love There Is), an autobiographical story about a sixteen-year-old boy, Carlo, and his friends in a small, southern Italian town in the 1970s. The boys' world is shaken by the arrival of three cosmopolitan girls from Milan, whose father has been sent there by his job. "Generally adopting a light touch, the ensemble drama approaches questions of first love and sex, family relationships, class differences and social inequalities," David Rooney explained in a review for Variety.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Volume 35, Gale (Detroit, MI), 2001.

PERIODICALS

Los Angeles Times, September 8, 1996, Kenneth Turan, review of Intervista, p. 2.

New York Times, January 3, 1992, Vincent Canby, review of The Station, p. C6; January 4, 1996, Vincent Canby, review of The Station, p. 11; November 20, 1992, Vincent Canby, review of Intervista, pp. B3, C10.

Variety, September 1, 1997, Deborah Young, review of The Bride's Journey, p. 77; March 16, 1998, David Rooney, review of Figli di Annibale, p. 65; August 30, 1999, Derek Elley, review of The Last Stop, p. 62; March 20, 2000, Deborah Young, review of Mirka, p. 27; March 27, 2000, David Rooney, review of All the Love There Is, p. 21; September 18, 2000, David Rooney, review of Teeth, p. 36; October 21, 2002, David Rooney, review of The Power of the Past, pp. 37-38.