Luca Barbareschi (born July 28, 1956 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is an Italian-Uruguayan actor, television presenter and politician, member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. He was one of four actors whom the Italian police believed had been murdered in the making of the 1980 horror film Cannibal Holocaust. So realistic was the film that was shortly after it was released its director Ruggero Deodato was arrested for the murder. The actors had signed contracts to stay out of the media for a year in order to fuel rumors 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.