Rocco Siffredi
Rocco Siffredi (born Rocco Antonio Tano on 4 May 1964 in Ortona, Italy) is an Italian pornographic actor, director and producer and one of the best-known male performers in the history of pornography. Known as The Italian Stallion, Siffredi became especially famous for rough sex, anal sex, deep throat, analingus and gonzo-style pornography.
Siffredi has had one of the longest and most successful careers in European porn, appearing in a huge number of adult films while also working as a director and producer. His name became closely associated with hard anal sex, aggressive sexual performances and the rough European gonzo style that became increasingly popular during the 1990s and 2000s.
Unlike many male porn stars who mainly appeared as supporting performers, Rocco became a major attraction himself. His name was prominently used to market films and series, and his sexual stamina, dominant screen persona and distinctive performance style made him internationally famous.
Rocco took his stage name from Roch Siffredi, the character played by Alain Delon in the French gangster film Borsalino (1970). He is commonly known simply as Rocco and has also been nicknamed The Italian Stallion.
Contents
- 1 Porn Career
- 2 Rocco Siffredi Rough Sex
- 3 Anal Sex
- 4 Rocco Siffredi Productions
- 5 Rocco Siffredi and Evil Angel
- 6 Retirement and Comebacks
- 7 Rocco Siffredi Academy
- 8 Supersex
- 9 Mainstream Media
- 10 Personal Life
- 11 Rocco Siffredi and Women
- 12 Rocco Siffredi and Male Porn Stars
- 13 Penis
- 14 Popular Rocco Siffredi Movies and Series
- 15 Awards
- 16 Rocco Siffredi in Popular Culture
- 17 See Also
Porn Career
Siffredi entered the porn business during the 1980s after meeting French porn actor Gabriel Pontello in Paris.
Pontello introduced him to producer Marc Dorcel and other people in the French porn business. Rocco soon appeared in his first adult movies and performed anal sex early in his career.
Siffredi briefly left porn and worked as a fashion model, but returned to the business a couple of years later.
He eventually became one of the biggest stars of European porn.
Rocco performed in both story-based porn movies and gonzo porn. His scenes ranged from ordinary sexual intercourse to some of the roughest mainstream pornography being produced at the time.
His performances became particularly known for:
- Rough sex
- Anal sex
- Analingus
- Deep throat
- Spanking
- Slapping
- Spitting
- Hair pulling
- Choking
- Erotic humiliation
- Group sex
- Orgies
Rocco's style was much rougher than the typical romantic porn of earlier decades. His scenes could look extremely aggressive, although performers appearing with him generally knew they were shooting Rocco-style porn.
He also became known for talking to girls during sex and pushing scenes further than many other male performers.
Porn actress Bobbi Starr once said that girls working with Rocco often ended up doing things with him that they would never do with another male performer.
Rocco Siffredi Rough Sex
Rough sex became one of the things most strongly associated with Rocco Siffredi.
Rocco scenes often include hard anal sex, deep throat, face fucking, spanking, slapping, hair pulling, spitting and other dominant sex acts.
At the same time, Rocco sometimes switched roles and allowed female performers to slap, dominate or humiliate him.
This made his porn different from scenes where the male performer simply dominates the woman from beginning to end.
Some Rocco scenes became notorious even by porn standards.
One famous scene in Sandy Insatiable involved actress Sidony Lamour having her head pushed into a toilet during anal sex.
Rocco later described the scene as spontaneous and consensual.
His name eventually became almost a category of porn by itself. Fans knew that a movie with Rocco Siffredi on the cover was probably going to contain rough sex, anal sex and extreme scenes.
Anal Sex
Anal sex has always been a major part of Rocco Siffredi's porn career.
He became particularly famous during a period when anal scenes were becoming more common in mainstream porn.
Rocco directed and performed in numerous anal-oriented movies and series.
He was also involved with performers who became famous for extreme anal porn and helped make this type of scene more common in European and American adult films.
His work with studios such as Evil Angel helped spread gonzo-style anal pornography internationally.
Rocco Siffredi Productions
Siffredi eventually became much more than a porn actor.
He established Rocco Siffredi Produzioni and became a major director and producer.
A large amount of his production work has been based around Budapest, which became one of Europe's most important porn-production centers.
Rocco travelled around the world looking for new female performers and filming porn in places including Hungary, Czech Republic, Brazil and other countries.
His productions often mixed established porn actresses with newcomers and amateur girls.
Rocco also became known for discovering and mentoring other male porn performers, including Nacho Vidal.
Rocco Siffredi and Evil Angel
Rocco had an important relationship with John Stagliano's Evil Angel studio.
Evil Angel became famous for distributing director-owned gonzo porn and gave performers and directors much more control over their own movies.
Rocco's rough gonzo style fitted Evil Angel perfectly.
His movies helped build both his own international reputation and the popularity of aggressive European gonzo porn during the 1990s and 2000s.
Retirement and Comebacks
Rocco has announced his retirement from porn several times.
In 2004 he said he wanted to stop performing because his children were getting older. He continued directing and producing porn but largely disappeared from the camera.
That retirement did not last.
Rocco returned to performing in 2009, saying that he missed sex and was disappointed with some of the male performers he was directing.
He later announced another retirement in 2015.
As usual with Rocco, retirement did not mean disappearing completely from porn. He continued directing, producing, casting and occasionally appearing in adult projects.
By the 2020s Rocco remained one of the biggest names in European pornography.
Rocco Siffredi Academy
Rocco has also been involved in training and casting new adult performers through projects connected with the Siffredi Academy.
The idea is basically a porn academy where newcomers can learn how professional adult productions work.
Rocco has spent years looking for new girls and male performers for his productions and has turned this process into shows, casting events and training projects.
The academy continues the same role Rocco has played for decades: porn actor, director, producer and talent scout.
Supersex
In 2024 Netflix released Supersex, a seven-part drama inspired by Rocco Siffredi's life.
Actor Alessandro Borghi plays Rocco.
The series follows his childhood in Ortona, move to Paris, discovery of sex and pornography and eventual rise to become one of the world's most famous porn stars.
Supersex is inspired by Rocco's real life but is not a documentary and changes or invents parts of the story.
Rocco himself supported the project and appeared at the premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The Netflix series introduced the Rocco Siffredi story to a huge audience that had never watched his porn.
Mainstream Media
Siffredi is one of the few male porn actors who became widely famous outside pornography.
His face and name are particularly well known in Italy, where he has appeared on television, reality shows, commercials and mainstream entertainment programs.
He appeared nude in Playgirl in 1990.
In 1999 he appeared in Catherine Breillat's controversial movie Romance.
He later appeared in Breillat's Anatomy of Hell, playing a gay man who becomes sexually involved with a woman.
Both films blurred the line between mainstream cinema and pornography and included unsimulated sexual material.
Rocco has also appeared in Italian television commercials and entertainment programs.
His image as Italy's most famous porn star has been used for jokes, advertisements and pop-culture references for decades.
Personal Life
Siffredi is married to Hungarian model Rosa Caracciolo.
The couple met in the early 1990s and appeared together in the porn movie Tarzan X: Shame of Jane.
They have two sons, Lorenzo and Leonardo.
Rocco has often talked openly about the difficulties of separating his porn career from family life.
When he returned to performing after his first retirement, he said that his wife had never asked him to stop and that returning to porn was his own decision.
Rocco Siffredi and Women
Rocco has performed with a huge number of female porn stars during his career. Some of his better-known professional partners include Bobbi Starr, Kelly Stafford, Tracey Adams, Seka, Amber Lynn and Teresa Orlowski
He has also worked with hundreds of lesser-known performers, newcomers and amateur girls. His reputation has always attracted women who specifically wanted to shoot a Rocco scene, although those scenes could be considerably rougher than ordinary porn.
Rocco Siffredi and Male Porn Stars
Rocco also had a major influence on younger male performers.
Nacho Vidal was one of the best-known performers associated with him.
Rocco spent years looking for male performers who could match his stamina, sexual aggression and camera presence.
Finding somebody who could replace him became almost a running theme in his career.
Penis
Rocco's penis has also been part of his porn-star image.
Unlike John Holmes, whose enormous dick became almost more famous than the man himself, Rocco's reputation was built more around performance, stamina, rough sex and anal scenes than penis size alone.
Still, his large penis and ability to maintain erections during long and physically demanding scenes helped make him one of the most successful male performers in porn.
Popular Rocco Siffredi Movies and Series
Rocco has appeared in and directed hundreds of porn movies.
Some of the best-known titles and series connected with him include:
- Buttman's Ultimate Workout
- Tarzan X: Shame of Jane
- Sandy Insatiable
- Rocco: Animal Trainer
- Rocco More Than Ever in London
- Rocco Ravishes L.A.
- Who Fucked Rocco?
- Ass Collector
- Rocco's Initiations
- True Anal Stories
- Rocco Invades Poland
His filmography is far too large to list completely.
Awards
Rocco Siffredi has won dozens of adult-film awards during his career.
He has received numerous AVN Awards, including awards for acting, directing, anal scenes, group sex scenes and foreign productions.
He has won Male Performer of the Year awards and multiple Foreign Male Performer awards.
He has also received XBIZ Awards, Hot d'Or awards and other European adult-film awards.
Rocco was inducted into both the AVN Hall of Fame and XRCO Hall of Fame.
Rocco Siffredi in Popular Culture
Rocco's name has become a common reference for a man with a huge sex drive or a big dick, particularly in Italy and other parts of Europe.
Bands and musicians have referenced him in songs.
Italian band Elio e le Storie Tese recorded Rocco e Le Storie Tese and Rocco appeared in and directed the video.
His name has also appeared in jokes, television programs and movies.
The phrase "It's only smells" from one of Rocco's old porn scenes became an internet meme years later.
See Also
- Ron Jeremy | John Holmes | Nacho Vidal | Seka
