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| name = Rocco Siffredi |
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| name = Rocco Siffredi |
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| image = Rocco Siffredi - Lucca Comics & Games 2016.jpg |
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| birth_name = Rocco Antonio Tano<ref name=IAFD/> |
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| birth_name = Rocco Antonio Tano<ref name=IAFD/> |
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|5|4|df=yes}}<ref name=IAFD/> |
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| birth_place = ], Italy<ref name=IAFD/> |
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| birth_place = ], Italy<ref name=IAFD/> |
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| height = {{convert|1.8|m|ftin|abbr=on}}<ref name=IAFD>{{iafd name|id=RSiffredi}}</ref> |
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| alias = {{hlist|Rocko Sifreddi|Rocco de Milano|Rocko Siffredi|Rocco Fiffreddi|Rocco Siffredy|Tano Rocco|Rocco Daryl Tano Jr.|Rocco Daryl Tano|Rocco Ziffredi|Roco|Rocky Siffreddy|Rocco Sieffredi|Rocco Sifredi|Rocco Tano<ref name=IAFD/>}} |
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| spouse = {{marriage|Rosa Caracciolo|1994}}<ref name="Marriage"/> |
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'''Rocco Siffredi''' (born '''Rocco Antonio Tano'''; 4 May 1964) is an Italian ], director and producer.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ilgazzettino.it/articolo.php?id=84759&sez=PERSONE|newspaper=Il Gazzettino|title=Rocco Siffredi, grande ritorno al porno: "Mi mancava troppo il sesso"|date=18 December 2009|language=it|access-date=18 February 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://terranoticias.terra.es/cultura/articulo/siffredi_rey_porno_publica_secretos_1127881.htm|title=El 'rey del porno' Siffredi publica los secretos de su vida|date=6 October 2006|work=Terra España|language=es|access-date=20 July 2009}}</ref> Known as the "Italian Stallion", Siffredi has starred in more than 1,300 pornographic films since 1986.<ref name="IAFD" /> |
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'''Rocco Antonio Tano''' (born 4 May 1964), known professionally as '''Rocco Siffredi''', is an Italian ], director, and producer.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ilgazzettino.it/articolo.php?id=84759&sez=PERSONE|newspaper=Il Gazzettino|title=Rocco Siffredi, grande ritorno al porno: "Mi mancava troppo il sesso"|date=18 December 2009|language=it|access-date=18 February 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://terranoticias.terra.es/cultura/articulo/siffredi_rey_porno_publica_secretos_1127881.htm|title=El 'rey del porno' Siffredi publica los secretos de su vida|date=6 October 2006|work=Terra España|language=es|access-date=20 July 2009}}</ref> Known as the "Italian Stallion", Siffredi has starred in more than 1,300 pornographic films since 1986.<ref name="IAFD" /> |
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Siffredi is known for his rough style of pornography, often involving anal sex, spitting, slapping and choking, his collaboration with the pornographic studio ], as well as his own productions.<ref name=":7">{{Cite news |last=Stern |first=Marlow |date=2016-10-22 |title=Rocco Siffredi, Godfather of Rough Sex: 'What You Call Violence, I Call Pain with Pleasure' |language=en |work=The Daily Beast |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/22/rocco-siffredi-godfather-of-rough-sex-what-you-call-violence-i-call-pain-with-pleasure |access-date=2023-12-03}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Buttman & Rocco's Brazilian Butt Fest AVN|url=https://avn.com/movies/17481/buttman-rocco-s-brazilian-butt-fest|access-date=2022-02-21|website=AVN}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Buttman and Rocco Go to Montreal AVN|url=https://avn.com/movies/19720/buttman-and-rocco-go-to-montreal|access-date=2022-02-21|website=AVN}}</ref> |
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Siffredi is known for his rough style of pornography, often involving anal sex, spitting, slapping and choking, his collaboration with the pornographic studio ], as well as his own productions.<ref name=":7">{{Cite news |last=Stern |first=Marlow |date=2016-10-22 |title=Rocco Siffredi, Godfather of Rough Sex: 'What You Call Violence, I Call Pain with Pleasure' |language=en |work=The Daily Beast |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/22/rocco-siffredi-godfather-of-rough-sex-what-you-call-violence-i-call-pain-with-pleasure |access-date=2023-12-03}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Buttman & Rocco's Brazilian Butt Fest AVN|url=https://avn.com/movies/17481/buttman-rocco-s-brazilian-butt-fest|access-date=2022-02-21|website=AVN}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Buttman and Rocco Go to Montreal AVN|url=https://avn.com/movies/19720/buttman-and-rocco-go-to-montreal|access-date=2022-02-21|website=AVN}}</ref> |
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Siffredi is one of a few porn actors to enjoy crossover appeal and success with respect to other segments of the adult film industry, as well as some in mainstream media. |
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Siffredi is one of a few porn actors to enjoy crossover appeal and success with respect to other segments of the adult film industry, as well as some in mainstream media. |
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In 1999, he appeared in the controversial ] film '']''. His performance in this role was followed by a part specifically written for him by the same director in her 2003 film '']'' (''Anatomy of Hell''), in which he played a gay man who became sexually involved with a woman. Both films featured unsimulated sexual scenes involving Siffredi, although it is disputed whether he actually had intercourse with co-star ] in ''Romance'' (she said no, Siffredi said yes).<ref name=Times>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article457870.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2|title=Culture: Is it art or porn?|access-date=24 September 2009|date=18 July 2004|publisher=]}}</ref> In 2012, he made a cameo as himself in the successful French comedy '']''. |
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In 1999, he appeared in the controversial ] film '']''. His performance in this role was followed by a part specifically written for him by the same director in her 2003 film '']'' (''Anatomy of Hell''), in which he played a gay man who became sexually involved with a woman. Both films featured unsimulated sexual scenes involving Siffredi, although it is disputed whether he actually had intercourse with co-star ] in ''Romance'' (she said no, Siffredi said yes).<ref name=Times>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article457870.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604153627/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article457870.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 June 2011|title=Culture: Is it art or porn?|access-date=24 September 2009|date=18 July 2004|publisher=]}}</ref> In 2012, he made a cameo as himself in the successful French comedy '']''. |
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Siffredi is also visible in non-pornographic roles on Italian television, including television commercials for Amica Chips, a snack food, which have spawned considerable controversy and have at one point been taken off the air, a ] show, ''Ci pensa Rocco'', and a ] docu-reality series, ''Casa Siffredi''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bloccato lo spot con Rocco Siffredi|url=http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Cronache/2006/03_Marzo/19/siffredi.shtml|access-date=4 September 2015|work=]|language=it|date=20 March 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Ci pensa Rocco, "il prete del sesso"|url=http://www.vanityfair.it/show/tv/13/10/30/ci-pensa-rocco-sesso-siffredi-programma-cielo|access-date=4 September 2015|work=]|language=it|date=24 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Canino|first=Francesco|title=Casa Siffredi: un reality racconta il lato inedito del porno star|url=http://www.panorama.it/televisione/casa-siffredi-reality-show-la5-rocco-siffredi-famiglia-anticipazioni/|access-date=4 September 2015|work=]|language=it|date=26 August 2015}}</ref> |
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Siffredi is also visible in non-pornographic roles on Italian television, including television commercials for Amica Chips, a snack food, which have spawned considerable controversy and have at one point been taken off the air, a ] show, ''Ci pensa Rocco'', and a ] docu-reality series, ''Casa Siffredi''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bloccato lo spot con Rocco Siffredi|url=http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Cronache/2006/03_Marzo/19/siffredi.shtml|access-date=4 September 2015|work=]|language=it|date=20 March 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Ci pensa Rocco, "il prete del sesso"|url=http://www.vanityfair.it/show/tv/13/10/30/ci-pensa-rocco-sesso-siffredi-programma-cielo|access-date=4 September 2015|work=]|language=it|date=24 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Canino|first=Francesco|title=Casa Siffredi: un reality racconta il lato inedito del porno star|url=http://www.panorama.it/televisione/casa-siffredi-reality-show-la5-rocco-siffredi-famiglia-anticipazioni/|access-date=4 September 2015|work=]|language=it|date=26 August 2015}}</ref> |
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In 1997, Italian band ] dedicated a song and a video, "Rocco e Le Storie Tese", to Siffredi. Siffredi directed the video, in addition to appearing in it.<ref name=Deregibus>{{cite book|last=Deregibus|first=Enrico|title=Dizionario completo della canzone italiana|url={{GBurl|QBko1XW9KOUC}}|lang=it|publisher=Giunti Editore|orig-year=2006|year=2010|isbn=978-8809756250}}</ref> He later sang a duet with the band on the song "Un bacio piccolissimo" at the ] of the ] in 2013.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sanremo giovani, vince Antonio Maggio. Elio-show con Siffredi|language=it|url=http://www.ilmattino.it/SPETTACOLI/SANREMO/sanremo_giovani_vince_maggio_elio_show_con_rocco_siffredi/notizie/252036.shtml|access-date=4 September 2015|work=]|date=16 February 2013}}</ref> Siffredi appeared as himself in a cameo in the 2018 Italian comedy film '']''. |
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In 1997, Italian band ] dedicated a song and a video, "Rocco e Le Storie Tese", to Siffredi. Siffredi directed the video, in addition to appearing in it.<ref name=Deregibus>{{cite book|last=Deregibus|first=Enrico|title=Dizionario completo della canzone italiana|url={{GBurl|QBko1XW9KOUC}}|lang=it|publisher=Giunti Editore|orig-year=2006|year=2010|isbn=978-8809756250}}</ref> He later sang a duet with the band on the song "Un bacio piccolissimo" at the ] of the ] in 2013.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sanremo giovani, vince Antonio Maggio. Elio-show con Siffredi|language=it|url=http://www.ilmattino.it/SPETTACOLI/SANREMO/sanremo_giovani_vince_maggio_elio_show_con_rocco_siffredi/notizie/252036.shtml|access-date=4 September 2015|work=]|date=16 February 2013}}</ref> Siffredi appeared as himself in a cameo in the 2018 Italian comedy film '']''. |
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In June 2023, Siffredi featured in the Spring-Summer 2024 runway show of Milan-based fashion brand ], playing the role of a pornographic movie director.<ref>. ]. 17 June 2023. Retrieved 27 June 2024.</ref> |
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== Personal life == |
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Siffredi is married to Rosa Caracciolo (born Rózsa Tassi), a Hungarian model whom he met in 1993 in Cannes and with whom he performed two years later in ''Tarzan X: Shame of Jane.'' Together they have two sons, Lorenzo and Leonardo.<ref name="Marriage">{{cite web|url=http://www.elmundo.es/magazine/2002/162/1036066267.html|title=Rocco es un hombre que disfruta muchísimo con su trabajo|publisher=elmundo.es|access-date=27 January 2010|date=3 November 2002|author=Juan Carlos Rodríguez|language=es}}</ref> |
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Siffredi is married to Rosa Caracciolo (born Rózsa Tassi), a Hungarian model whom he met in 1993 in Cannes and with whom he performed two years later in ''Tarzan X: Shame of Jane.'' Together they have two sons, Lorenzo and Leonardo.<ref name="Marriage">{{cite web|url=http://www.elmundo.es/magazine/2002/162/1036066267.html|title=Rocco es un hombre que disfruta muchísimo con su trabajo|publisher=elmundo.es|access-date=27 January 2010|date=3 November 2002|author=Juan Carlos Rodríguez|language=es}}</ref> |
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During his initial retirement starting in 2004, Siffredi battled sex addiction and disappeared from home for days to have sex, including with women, trans women, seniors, and men.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Stern |first1=Marlow |title=Rocco Siffredi, Godfather of Rough Sex: 'What You Call Violence, I Call Pain with Pleasure' |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/rocco-siffredi-godfather-of-rough-sex-what-you-call-violence-i-call-pain-with-pleasure |access-date=17 August 2018 |work=The Daily Beast |date=22 October 2016 |language=en}}</ref> Upon his decision to return to on-screen pornographic performance in 2009, Siffredi recounted, "I spoke with my wife and she said it's my problem only, it doesn't belong to her and the boys. And she said, 'You decided to stop; we never asked you. So if you want to go back, just go back'."<ref name="business.avn.com" /> However, after a long period of intensive performing, with much time away from his home in Italy, Siffredi announced his retirement again in 2015 for the sake of his marriage. "Today I can see, my wife, she is the top priority", he said in a press statement. "She deserves to have what she wanted from day one, to be with only me without sharing with other girls."<ref name="xbiz" /> Caracciolo told the press, "I know him very well and I love him for who and what he is. Let's see what the new version of him will be like."<ref name="mirror" /> |
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During his initial retirement starting in 2004, Siffredi battled ], disappearing from home for days to have sex, including with trans women, seniors and men.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Stern |first1=Marlow |title=Rocco Siffredi, Godfather of Rough Sex: 'What You Call Violence, I Call Pain with Pleasure' |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/rocco-siffredi-godfather-of-rough-sex-what-you-call-violence-i-call-pain-with-pleasure |access-date=17 August 2018 |work=The Daily Beast |date=22 October 2016 |language=en}}</ref> Upon his decision to return to on-screen pornographic performance in 2009, Siffredi recounted, "I spoke with my wife and she said it's my problem only, it doesn't belong to her and the boys. And she said, 'You decided to stop; we never asked you. So if you want to go back, just go back.{{'"}}<ref name="business.avn.com" /> However, after a long period of intensive performing, with much time away from his home in Italy, Siffredi announced his retirement again in 2015 for the sake of his marriage. "Today I can see, my wife, she is the top priority", he said in a press statement. "She deserves to have what she wanted from day one, to be with only me without sharing with other girls."<ref name="xbiz" /> Caracciolo told the press, "I know him very well and I love him for who and what he is. Let's see what the new version of him will be like."<ref name="mirror" /> |
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Siffredi discussed his personal life in 2015 on the reality television show '']'' (''The Celebrity Island''). Speaking of his sexuality, Siffredi discussed his ] as emerging from "some kind of devil in me" and spoke of himself, " sometimes sends me out of my mind." He discussed asking God for intervention from the spirit of his mother, whose photograph he always carries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dagospia.com/rubrica-2/media_e_tv/diktat-spaak-ona-mancata-naufraga-avrebbe-preteso-che-suo-93752.htm|last=Dandolo|first=Alberto|website=Dagospia|title=Rocco Siffredi|date=3 February 2015|access-date=21 March 2017}}</ref> He considers himself "a believer in God".<ref>{{cite news|first=Piero|last=Degli Antoni|url=https://www.quotidiano.net/cronaca/rocco-siffredi-1.8221295|title=Rocco Siffredi sulle frasi del Papa: "Il porno non è il male. Le crociate sono inutili"|language=it|work=Quotidiano Nazionale|date=27 October 2022|access-date=27 October 2022}}</ref> |
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Siffredi discussed his personal life in 2015 on the reality television show '']'' (''The Celebrity Island''). Speaking of his sexuality, Siffredi discussed his sex addiction as emerging from "some kind of devil in me" and spoke of himself, " sometimes sends me out of my mind." He discussed asking God for intervention from the spirit of his mother, whose photograph he always carries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dagospia.com/rubrica-2/media_e_tv/diktat-spaak-ona-mancata-naufraga-avrebbe-preteso-che-suo-93752.htm|last=Dandolo|first=Alberto|website=Dagospia|title=Rocco Siffredi|date=3 February 2015|access-date=21 March 2017}}</ref> He considers himself "a believer in God".<ref>{{cite news|first=Piero|last=Degli Antoni|url=https://www.quotidiano.net/cronaca/rocco-siffredi-1.8221295|title=Rocco Siffredi sulle frasi del Papa: 'Il porno non è il male. Le crociate sono inutili'|language=it|work=]|date=27 October 2022|access-date=27 October 2022}}</ref> |
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Siffredi is known for his rough style of pornography, often involving anal sex, spitting, slapping and choking, his collaboration with the pornographic studio Evil Angel, as well as his own productions.
Siffredi first got to the idea to work in the porn business after discovering a pornographic magazine as a teenager. He moved to Paris in his early twenties and attended different sex clubs where he was eventually discovered by French porn actor and director Gabriel Pontello, who introduced him to other producers. Siffredi made his pornographic debut in the 1986 film Sodopunition pour dépravées sexuelles. He took his stage name from the character Roch Siffredi played by Alain Delon in the French gangster film Borsalino (1970).
In June 2004, Siffredi declared that he would retire from performing in porn for the sake of his children, and instead focus on direction and production. "My children are growing up", he said, "and I can no longer just say 'Dad is going to work to make money for the family'. They want to know more." Regarding Siffredi's long career, Axel Braun commented, "The problem is that he's been trying for years to find an 'heir to the throne', but it's no easy task. He thought he found him in Nacho Vidal, but then Nacho went his own way."
Siffredi, while continuing to direct, was largely absent as an on-screen performer for nearly five years. However, sexual frustration and disappointment as a director with his male talent and the state of the porn industry overall led Siffredi to return as a performer in 2009. Despite renewed success, Siffredi announced his retirement once again in 2015, shortly after appearing on the Italian reality television show L'isola dei famosi (The Celebrity Island), which saw him stranded naked and alone on a beach for one week. He was reported to have told a friend, "I never felt so naked as I did then. I was all alone and it gave me a lot of time to think about what is important. And I realised I don't want to lose my wife." In 2015, he told the press, "More than a year ago I started to get uncomfortable in the front of the camera...Something inside of me has changed."
Siffredi would later continue to perform in various pornographic films and his own casting series. In 2020, his cousin and long-time collaborator Gabriel Zero died. Siffredi subsequently announced the possibility of collaborating with his son Lorenzo on productions. In late 2022, Siffredi announced that he had stopped performing in scenes, but stated that he had not retired and noted "I don't say 'I'm retiring' anymore" due to previous retirements and comebacks.
Siffredi is one of a few porn actors to enjoy crossover appeal and success with respect to other segments of the adult film industry, as well as some in mainstream media.
Siffredi is also visible in non-pornographic roles on Italian television, including television commercials for Amica Chips, a snack food, which have spawned considerable controversy and have at one point been taken off the air, a Cielo show, Ci pensa Rocco, and a La5 docu-reality series, Casa Siffredi.
In June 2023, Siffredi featured in the Spring-Summer 2024 runway show of Milan-based fashion brand Dsquared², playing the role of a pornographic movie director.
Siffredi is married to Rosa Caracciolo (born Rózsa Tassi), a Hungarian model whom he met in 1993 in Cannes and with whom he performed two years later in Tarzan X: Shame of Jane. Together they have two sons, Lorenzo and Leonardo.
Siffredi at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival_(cropped).jpg)
