Rocco Siffredi (born Rocco Antonio Tano, 4 May 1964) is the stage name of an Italian pornographic actor, director and producer of pornographic movies who is known for his rough sex scenes. As of October 2011, he has starred in more than 1,300 pornographic films.

Rocco took his stage name from the character "Roch Siffredi" played by Alain Delon in the French gangster film Borsalino (1970). He is also known as the "Italian Stallion".

Biography

Siffredi 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. 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." 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." Carocciolo 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."

SIffredi discussed his personal life on the reality television show Isola dei famosi (Island of the famous). 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.