Biography
Pietro Sarubbi is an Italian actor and writer, also credited as Pedro Sarubbi. Born in Milan on 22 June 1961, he trained at the Civica Scuola d'Arte Drammatica del Piccolo Teatro and began working in theatre in 1979 before appearing in RAI programmes from 1980.
He made his cinema debut in Yuppies 2 (1985) and has appeared in numerous Italian films and television series, including under directors Gabriele Salvatores and Nanni Loy. Sarubbi gained wider recognition for roles in international productions, playing Velisarios, The Strongman (credited as Pedro Sarubbi) in Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) and Barabbas in The Passion of the Christ (2004). He has also written a book about his experience filming the latter.
