Luca Barbareschi

Luca Giorgio Barbareschi (born July 28, 1956) is an Uruguayan-born Italian actor, filmmaker, businessman, and politician. He represented Sardinia in the Chamber of Deputies between 2008 and 2013.

Early life
Barbareschi was born in Montevideo, Uruguay to Italian parents Francesco Saverio, an engineer and former World War II partisan from Milan, and Maria Antonietta Hirsch, an economist of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. His parents divorced when he was six, and Barbareschi moved to Milan.

Acting career
Barbareschi studied acting with Alessandro Fersen, and began his professional career in 1970 as an assistant director to Virginio Puecher at the Teatro di Verona. He spent a year as an assistant director at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, then to Frank Corsaro at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He subsequently enrolled in the Actors Studio, where he studied for four years.

He was one of four actors whom the Italian police believed had been murdered in the making of the 1980 horror film Cannibal Holocaust, where he also abused and killed a young piglet. So realistic was the film that shortly after it was released, its director, Ruggero Deodato was arrested on suspicions of murder. The actors had signed contracts to stay out of the media for a year in order to fuel rumors that the film was a snuff movie. The court was only convinced that they were alive when the contracts were canceled, and the actors appeared on a television show as proof.

Political career
In 2008, he was elected as a Member of the Italian Parliament in the Chamber of Deputies with Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right party, The People of Freedom. In 2010, he joined, with the other 32 deputies and 10 senators, the Gianfranco Fini's new party Future and Freedom. He left parliament in 2013.

Controversies
On June 11, 2012, during an interview for the program Le Iene, Barbareschi attacked journalist Filippo Roma and his cameraman, and stole Roma's cellphone. The police rushed to the scene but did not make any arrests. Roma filed a complaint for theft, but according to some witnesses, his phone, never returned, was destroyed by Barbareschi. A similar incident repeated in Filicudi in August, when Barbareschi again battered Roma.

Barbareschi was accused of homophobia during April 30, 2022 speech in Sutri, in which he said "the homosexual mafia is the problem." He later claimed the comments were taken out of context and were intended as a joke, and the he himself had had homosexual experiences.

Barbareschi has defended director Roman Polanski, with whom he has worked several times as a producer, against his sexual abuse conviction, claiming the case against him is due to "political correctness."

Marriages and relationships
Barbareschi has been married twice. With his first wife, Patrizia Fachini, he had three daughters: Beatrice, Eleonora and Angelica. He married his second wife, Elena Monorchio, the daughter of Ministry of Economy and Finance economist Andrea Monorchio, on 20 June 2015. They have two children, Maddalena (b. 2010) and Francesco Saverio (b. 2012).

Barbareschi was previously in a seven-year long relationship with actress Lucrezia Lante della Rovere,

Religion
Barbareschi practices Judaism.

Cinema

 * 1977 – Ultimo mondo cannibale
 * 1979 – Da Corleone a Brooklyn
 * 1980 – Cannibal Holocaust as Mark
 * 1983 – Dream of a Summer Night
 * 1984 – Impiegati
 * 1986 – Via Montenapoleone
 * 1987 – Private Affairs
 * 1988 – Bye Bye Baby
 * 1990 – In nome del popolo sovrano
 * 1991 – L'amico arabo
 * 1992 – La bionda
 * 1992 – Obiettivo indiscreto
 * 1994 – La delegazione
 * 1995 – La tenda nera
 * 1995 – La famiglia Ricordi
 * 1995 – Il cielo è sempre più blu
 * 1996 – Ardena
 * 1999 – Le fils du Français
 * 2002 – Il Trasformista
 * 2008 – The International
 * 2010 – Noi credevamo
 * 2013 – Something Good (director, actor)
 * 2019 – Dolceroma (producer)
 * 2019 – An Officer and a Spy (producer)
 * 2021 – Appunti di un venditore di donne (producer)
 * 2022 – Ero in guerra ma non lo sapevo (producer)
 * 2023 – The Palace (producer)

Television

 * 1992 – Questo è amore
 * 1992 – That's Amore
 * 1997 – Trenta righe per un delitto
 * 1998 – Cronaca nera
 * 1999 – Jesus
 * 2000 – Greed
 * 2002 – Giorni da leone
 * 2003 – Una vita in regalo
 * 2004 – Rivoglio i miei figli
 * 2005 – Nebbie e delitti
 * 2005 – Les Rois maudits
 * 2006 – Giorni da leone 2
 * 2006 – La profezia dei templari
 * 2007 – Nebbie e delitti 2
 * 2009 – Nebbie e delitti 3
 * 2012 – Nero Wolfe (producer)
 * 2013 – Le Iene con Botte da Orbi
 * 2015 – Pietro Mennea - La freccia del sud (fiction)
 * 2022 – Il grande gioco (producer)

Theatre

 * 2004 – Amadeus
 * 2006 – Il Sogno del Principe di Salina, l'Ultimo Gattopardo