Luca Barbareschi is an Italian- Uruguayan actor, television presenter and politician, member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies

Italian Chamber of Deputies

The Italian Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the Parliament of Italy. It has 630 seats, a plurality of which is controlled presently by liberal-conservative party People of Freedom. Twelve deputies represent Italian citizens outside of Italy. Deputies meet in the Palazzo Montecitorio. A...

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He was one of four actors whom the Italian police believed had been murdered in the making of the 1980 horror film Cannibal Holocaust

Cannibal Holocaust

Cannibal Holocaust is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Ruggero Deodato from a screenplay by Gianfranco Clerici. Filmed in the Amazon Rainforest and dealing with indigenous tribes, it was cast mostly with United States actors and filmed in English to achieve wider distribution...

. So realistic was the film that shortly after it was released its director Ruggero Deodato

Ruggero Deodato

Ruggero Deodato is an Italian film director and screen writer, best known for directing violent and gory horror films. Deodato is infamous for his 1980 film Cannibal Holocaust.- Biography :...

 was arrested for murder. The actors had signed contracts to stay out of the media for a year in order to fuel rumours that the film was a snuff movie. The court was only convinced that they were alive when the contracts were cancelled and the actors appeared on a television show as proof.

In 2008 he was elected as Member of the Italian Parliament at the Chamber of Deputies with Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi , also known as Il Cavaliere – from knighthood to the Order of Merit for Labour which he received in 1977 – is an Italian politician and businessman who served three terms as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006, and 2008 to 2011. Berlusconi is also the...

's centre-right party People of Freedom.
In 2010 he joined, with other 32 deputies and 10 senators, the Gianfranco Fini

Gianfranco Fini

Gianfranco Fini is an Italian politician, President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, leader of the center-right Future and Freedom party, and the former leader of the conservative National Alliance and the post-fascist Italian Social Movement...

's new party "Future and Freedom for Italy".

Cinema

• 1979 - Da Corleone a Brooklyn
• 1980 - Cannibal Holocaust
  Cannibal Holocaust
  Cannibal Holocaust is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Ruggero Deodato from a screenplay by Gianfranco Clerici. Filmed in the Amazon Rainforest and dealing with indigenous tribes, it was cast mostly with United States actors and filmed in English to achieve wider distribution...
  
  
• 1983 - Sogno di una notte d'estate
• 1984 - Impiegati
• 1986 - Via Montenapoleone
  Via Montenapoleone (film)
  Via Montenapoleone is a 1987 Italian film directed by Carlo Vanzina.-Cast:*Carol Alt*Luca Barbareschi*Corinne Clery*Renee Simonsen*Renato Scarpa*Paolo Rossi*Gianfranco Manfredi*Lorenzo Lena*Sharon Gusberti*Daniel Gélin*Valentina Cortese...
  
  
• 1988 - Bye bye baby
  Bye Bye Baby
  Bye Bye Baby may refer to:* "Bye Bye Baby", a song by Leo Robin and Jule Styne from the 1949 Broadway musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and sung by Marilyn Monroe in the 1953 film adaptation...
  
  
• 1990 - In nome del popolo sovrano
• 1991 - L'amico arabo
• 1992 - La bionda
  La Bionda
  La Bionda is a musical duo formed by brothers Carmelo and Michelangelo La Bionda, who are considered the inventors of Italian disco music.-Biography:The grew up in Milan....
  
  
• 1992 - Obiettivo indiscreto
• 1994 - La delegazione
• 1995 - La tenda nera
• 1995 - La famiglia Ricordi
• 1995 - Il cielo è sempre più blu
• 1996 - Ardena
• 2002 - Il Trasformista
• 2008 - The International
  The International (film)
  The International is a 2009 thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer. The film follows an Interpol agent and an American attorney who investigate corruption within the IBBC, a fictional merchant bank based in Luxembourg. It serves organized crime and corrupt governments as a banker and as an arms...
  
  

Television

• 1992 - Questo è amore
• 1997 - Trenta righe per un delitto
• 1998 - Cronaca nera
• 1999 - Jesus
  Jesus (1999 film)
  Jesus is a Biblical telefilm that retells the story of Jesus. It was shot in Morocco and Malta. It stars Jeremy Sisto as Jesus, Jacqueline Bisset as Mary of Nazareth, Debra Messing as Mary Magdalene and Gary Oldman as Pontius Pilate.-Overview:...
  
  
• 2000 - Greed
• 2002 - Giorni da leone
• 2003 - Una vita in regalo
• 2004 - Rivoglio i miei figli
• 2005 - Nebbie e delitti
• 2005 - Les Rois Maudits
  Les Rois Maudits
  The Accursed Kings , is a sequence of seven historical novels by Maurice Druon, of the Académie française.The seven books are:The book's characters are colorful and larger than life, but also have depth. The narration is gripping and very much plot-driven, whether a conspiracy to assassinate the...
  
  
• 2006 - Giorni da leone 2
• 2006 - La profezia dei templari
• 2007 - Nebbie e delitti 2
  Nebbie e delitti
  Nebbie e delitti is an Italian television series....
  
  
• 2009 - Nebbie e delitti 3
  Nebbie e delitti
  Nebbie e delitti is an Italian television series....
  
  

Theatre

• 2004 - Amadeus
  Amadeus
  Amadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer.It is based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, highly fictionalized.Amadeus was first performed in 1979...
  
  
• 2006 - Il Sogno del Principe di Salina, l'Ultimo Gattopardo

External links

• Luca Barbareschi official site