Alessandro Rossi (actor)

Rossi was born in Rome and began his career on stage in 1976 when he spent four years as a member of Teatro Il Politecnico. He subsequently worked in other theatre companies across Italy. As an actor on screen, he played the role of Commissioner De Zan in the television series Inspector Coliandro, which began in 2006 and ended in 2021. Rossi is known to the Italian public as a voice actor. He is the Italian voice dubber of Liam Neeson and Arnold Schwarzenegger.^[2] He also provided the Italian voice of Samuel L. Jackson, Ving Rhames, Michael Clarke Duncan and Patrick Stewart in some of their works.^[3]

Some of Rossi's notable film dubbing roles include Optimus Prime (performed by Peter Cullen) in the Transformers film franchise, Alex Murphy (performed by Peter Weller and Robert John Burke) in the RoboCop film franchise and Biff Tannen (performed by Thomas F. Wilson) in the Back to the Future film franchise. He also dubbed Jean-Luc Picard (performed by Patrick Stewart) in Star Trek: The Next Generation.^[4] In Rossi's animated roles, he has dubbed Goliath in Gargoyles, Zapp Brannigan in Futurama and Speed in The Swan Princess.^{[citation needed]}