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Rocco Siffredi (born Rocco Antonio Tano; 4 May 1964) is an Italian pornographic
actor, director and producer of pornographic movies.[3][4]

Rocco Siffredi

Siffredi at the XBIZ Europa Awards in Berlin 2019
Born
Rocco Antonio Tano[1]
4 May 1964 (age 55)[1]
Ortona, Italy[1]
Other names
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[1]
Occupation
Pornographic actor[1] model[1]
Height
1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Spouse(s)
Rosa Caracciolo (m. 1993)[2]
Children
Lorenzo (b. 1996)[2]
Leonardo (b. 1999)[2]
Website
roccosiffredi.com
He took his stage name from the character Roch Siffredi played by Alain Delon in
the French gangster film Borsalino (1970).[5] Known as the "Italian Stallion",
Siffredi has starred in more than 1,300 pornographic films.[1] He became as popular
in Italy as Ron Jeremy in the United States.

Pornography career Edit


Siffredi with Rocco Tanica in 2016
Siffredi met porn actor Leonardo Codazzo in a French sex club in 1985 and was
introduced to producer Marco and director Michela, who cast him in his first
pornographic role, Attention fillettes... (Watch Out, Little Girls...) in 1987, in
which he performed anal sex. Siffredi then stepped away from porn and worked as a
fashion model, but returned to the business after two years with the help of porn
actress Teresa Orlowski.[6] Siffredi went on to perform in both plot-based and
gonzo-style pornography, with styles of sex ranging from ordinary to extreme.
However, it was Siffredi's performances involving anal sex and anilingus, as well
as rough sex and his psychological intensity and athleticism, which earned him
recognition and ultimately a cult following. Through collaboration with John
Stagliano's Evil Angel studio and then his own Budapest-based Rocco Siffredi
Produzioni as both a performer and director, Siffredi became one of the most
powerful and recognizable personalities in pornography. "Rocco has far more power
in this industry than any actress," Stagliano commented in 2001. Siffredi has
credited Stagliano with being his mentor through all 30 years of his career.[7]

Retirement Edit

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."[8] 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".[9] 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.[10] Despite renewed success, Siffredi announced his retirement
once again in 2015, shortly after appearing on the Italian reality television show
L'Isola dei Famosi (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."[11] He later told the
press, "[M]ore than a year ago I started to get uncomfortable in the front of the
camera...Something inside of me has changed."[7] However, he has continued
performing sex in titles such as Rocco One on One and Rocco's Intimate Castings.
[12]

Style of pornography Edit

Actress Bobbi Starr noted of Siffredi, "Any girl in the industry who has been with
him... will tell you that they have done things with him that they [would] never do
with anyone else."[13]

Speaking of his female partners, Siffredi says, "I want to see emotion... fear...
excitement... the eyes going up from being surprised."[10]

In mainstream media Edit

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.

In 1999, he appeared in the controversial Catherine Breillat film Romance. His

performance in this role was followed by a part specifically written for him by the
same director in her 2003 film Anatomie de L'enfer (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 Caroline Ducey in Romance (she said no,
Siffredi said yes).[14] In 2012, he made a cameo as himself in the successful
French comedy Porn in the Hood.

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,[15] a Cielo
show, Ci pensa Rocco,[16] and a La 5 docu-reality series, Casa Siffredi.[17]

In 1997, Italian band Elio e Le Storie Tese dedicated a song and a video, "Rocco e
Le Storie Tese", to Siffredi. Siffredi himself directed the video, also appearing
in it.[18] Siffredi also duetted with the band in the song "Un bacio piccolissimo"
at the 63rd edition of the Sanremo Music Festival.[19]

Personal life Edit

Siffredi had a three-year relationship with the actress Louise Germaine. He 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.[2] During his initial
retirement starting in 2004, Siffredi battled sex addiction and disappeared from
home for days to have sex; including with prostitutes, older women, transgender
women, and men.[20] 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".[10] 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".[7] 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".[11]

Siffredi discussed his personal life on the reality television show L'Isola dei
Famosi (Celebrity Island). Speaking of his sexuality, Siffredi discussed his sex
addiction as emerging from "some kind of devil in me" and spoke of himself, "[It]
sometimes sends me out of my mind". He discussed asking God for intervention from
the spirit of his mother, whose photograph he always carries.[21]

Awards Edit

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Rocco Siffredi

In popular culture Edit

Siffredi is referenced in the Hold Steady song "Most People Are DJs" from 2004's
Almost Killed Me.
The Polish punk rock band Anti Dread wrote the song "Roko na Sterydach" ("Rocco on
Steroids") about Siffredi.
Mark Holcomb and Matt Halpern, of progressive metal band Periphery, are avid fans
of Siffredi's work and quote his famous lines on-stage.
Siffredi is referenced in the songs "Kundel Bury" and "Wina Satana" from the band
Arka Satana.[22]
He is also referenced in the song "Padre Siffredi" from Danish hardcore band
Barcode in the album Showdown (1995), including lyrics like "Size does matter, the
bigger the badder".
Underground cult filmmaker Carlos Atanes stated that Stanley Kubrick, David Lean
and Rocco Siffredi were his main film references and he also said about Siffredi's
work that "Agnes' scene in Rocco invades Poland or Gabriella Kerez' pool scene from
True Anal Stories 9 are deeper than any Theo Angelopoulos' movie and show us the
human inside more accurately than any Ingmar Bergman’s film".[23]
In French crime drama Braquo (season 2, episode 6), Internal Affairs Inspector
Roland Vogel made a joke to a prostitute that his "tool" would make Rocco Siffredi
"hide in shame".
Siffredi is the male actor in the "It's Only Smellz" video that has become a
popular meme.
United Kingdom band The Singing Pictures released a secret track named "Siffredi
it" in reference to his porn acting style.
Siffredi is referenced in the song "Rocco Siffredi" by the German rapper SSIO.
Siffredi is mentioned in the article "Pharmaco-pornographic Politics: Towards a New
Gender Ecology" by Paul B. Preciado published by Routledge in the journal Parallax
(2008), vol. 14 no. 1, pp. 105–117. Preciado writes, "The dildo, a synthetic
extension of sex to produce pleasure and identity, eats Rocco Siffredi's cock" (p.
108).
Filmography Edit

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Pornographic Edit
Fashionistas (2002)
Non-pornographic Edit
Romance (1999)
Anatomy of Hell (2004)
Wedding in Paris (2011)
Porn in the Hood (2012)
Rocco (2016)
See also Edit

List of pornographic actors who appeared in mainstream films

Further reading

References

External links

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