Rocco Siffredi, byname of Rocco Tano (born May 4, 1964 in Ortona, Abruzzo, Italy) is a former pornographic actor, now working as a director and producer of pornographic movies. As of 2005, he has starred in over 1,300 pornographic films.
Siffredi's screen name was reportedly inspired by a character from the movie Borsalino (1970), "Roch Siffredi", played by Alain Delon. He is also known as "the Italian Stallion", a reference to his penis size.
Son's name is Lorenzo (b. 16 April 1996)
European adult film star.
Choose his screen name from Alain Delon's character in Borsalino (1970): Roch Siffredi. Ten years before Delon had played the sensitive young Rocco in Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960), the movie that set his stardom.
His second son with his wife Rosa, named Leonardo, was born in 1999.
Announced that he was retiring from performing on camera in adult movies. However, he will continue to work behind the scenes as a director. (June 2004)
Got his first break-through into the adult film industry in a Parisian swinger's club when he met Gabriel Pontello, editor of Supersex magazine. He was 19.
In a good year, he makes about $200,000.
At 17, he quit his college of technology and went to Paris, where he worked as a waiter in his brother's restaurant.
He has filmed on location from Los Angeles to Kenya, and from Australia to the Philippines.
