The bright and slightly crazy seventies and eighties gave the world many interesting personalities in various spheres of life, including pop culture. One of these interesting personalities is actress, singer, model and famous fitness trainer Sidney Rom.
In her younger years, she embodied the standard of beauty of that time: a slender blonde with huge eyes, very feminine and artistic, she attracted the eyes of men, and in women she caused the desire to be like her. She was a real TV personality of those years.
Biography
The future actress was born in 1951 in Akron, Ohio. The Rom family was quite wealthy: her father was the head of the largest plastics manufacturing plant in the United States. From childhood, Sydney was independent, and after graduation she told her parents that she would do whatever she wanted. And when she was nineteen years old, she moved to her beloved Italy and became completely independent.
Perhaps the call of the ancestors spoke in her, because her roots, her family originate from this southern country. From her Italian ancestors she inherited a wonderful slender figure, bright appearance, temperament and positive energy.
Of course, not everything worked out right away, but the seventies became "stellar" for Rum. Back in America, she played the role of Flicka in the film "Some Girls". This work was successful, which helped the girl to believe in herself and continue to develop in the acting field. In addition, she had not only a bright appearance, but also good vocal abilities, and purposefulness played an important role in the growth of her popularity.
Film career
After moving to Italy, Rom began to appear in films quite often. If you look at the list of directors who invited her to their projects, it turns out to be quite impressive: Roman Polonsky, Otto Schneck, Pierre Granier-Defer, Rene Clement, Claude Chabrol, Sergey Bondarchuk and others..
Rom's significant achievement as an actress was that she could fit into any project and play in any film genre: detective, thriller, comedy, melodrama or horror. Her portfolio includes more than forty roles in films and TV shows. She worked on the same set with such celebrities as Marcello Mastroianni, Alain Delon, Aldo Maccione, Maria Schneider and others. The geography of filming is also impressive: starting in the United States, the actress during her career has visited, in addition to Italy, France, Russia, Spain, Great Britain and Germany.
Her demand was also due to the fact that Sydney was a "singing actress" and could perform any musical composition if the plot required it.
Rom was constantly developing these data and, in the wake of her success in cinema, she also decided to advance in her vocal career. The first song she performed was a cover version of the song Hearts, which was written by Jersey Neil Barish. Sidney shot a video for this song, and it instantly became the most popular among viewers around the world, including in Russia. It was already the eighties, when foreign serials and clips of foreign performers began to be shown on television. The name Sydney was then on the lips of all music lovers, and her success could only be compared with some of the most famous Hollywood celebrities.
She also tried herself in the role of a model and in the same years starred for Playboy magazine, which further increased her popularity and attracted even more fans to her. She even began to be called "the queen of television" - so often Rom began to appear on the screens and the projects with her participation were so popular. A young, energetic and optimistic girl attracted the attention of millions of viewers.
In addition to creative talents, the actress inherited an entrepreneurial gift from her father, and as soon as the programs of aerobics coaches began to appear on television, she decided to become the same coach.
At that time, girls with slender, fit figures were very fashionable, and aerobics was considered the most fashionable trend in women's sports disciplines. Moreover, there was no need to go anywhere - all the exercises could be done at home, in front of the TV, to the rhythmic music and the presenter's motivating words. In the eighties, there was a boom in aerobics, and Rom was at the right time in the right place - she became a television fitness guru.
She recorded her aerobics workouts on video, and they began to be broadcast on many television channels in different countries. Rum even made real competition in this case for such a celebrity as Jane Fonda.
The peculiarity of her classes was that she showed the exercises not alone, but with a group of assistants, and thus created the feeling of a group lesson. In addition, Cindy constantly invited various performers for vocal accompaniment, which was also interesting and created variety.
Her videos were a huge success, they were watched by millions of women around the world, discs with recordings of classes were quickly sold out. And the album Aerobic Fitness Dancing went platinum.
Personal life
The first time Sydney got married in 1973 - the photographer Emilio Larry became her chosen one. This marriage was short-lived, and when there were many invitations to shoot, the actress was not at all up to her personal life. She traveled to different countries, starred a lot and worked on television.
In 1987, Rom met the architect Roberto Bernabei, and they were soon married. Her husband is Italian, the couple live in Rome. They have no children of their own, so they took two kids from the orphanage and raised them.
With age, when changes began in her face and figure, Sydney began to undergo plastic surgery, and too much passion for them led to sad consequences. Now Sydney Rom is known as one of the most famous actresses who fell victim to plastic surgeons.
Perhaps that is why she stopped showing herself in public and lives quite closed.
