Personal Life
Rubbo is the son of Australian microbiologist, Sydney Rubbo, and the grandson of the painter and teacher, Antonio Dattilo Rubbo. He has always been a painter as well as film-maker. His brother, Mark Rubbo, is a prominent bookseller ( Readings) and his sister, Anna Rubbo, a global architectual activist. Rubbo lives in Avoca Beach with his wife Katerina (a Russian interpreter, icon painter and fundraiser for Russian orphans) and his daughter, Ellen Rubbo (studying events management). He also has a son, Nicolas, living in Canada working at McCarthy Tétrault, a top-ranked Canadian business law firm, as Director, Marketing and communications.
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