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My Take
Urbano Barberini is one of those figures I find irresistibly contradictory. He is an actual Roman aristocrat, of the Barberini line, yet he made his name fronting cult horror like Demons rather than coasting on pedigree. That refusal to hide behind nobility appeals to me enormously. Add translator, theater producer, artistic director, and fluency in Italian and French, and you have a genuine polymath who took genre cinema seriously. I admire performers who marry old-world cultivation with unpretentious craft. Barberini does exactly that, and the result is a career with far more texture than his blue blood alone would suggest.
Overview
Urbano Barberini Riario Sforza Colonna di Sciarra (born 18 September 1961), best known as Urbano Barberini or sometimes Urbano Barberini Sforza, is an Italian actor. He is also a translator, theater producer and artistic director. He is fluent in Italian and French languages and is mostly known for starring or appearing in many horror, fantasy and drama films, including the cult classic Dèmoni (Demons).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Urbano Barberini
- Name (Japanese)
- ウルバノ・バルベリーニ
- Reading
- うるばの・ばるべりーに
- Born
- September 18, 1961 (age 64)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Ox
- Origin
- Rome, Province of Rome, Italy
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film actor / stage actor / actor / aristocrat
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Film actor — see all → · Stage actor — see all → · More people from Italy →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.