Spaghetti Western Actresses

1. Ida Galli

Ida Galli was born on October 8, 1939 in Sestola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Psychic (1977), La Dolce Vita (1960) and The Leopard (1963).

2. Nieves Navarro

Actress | La morte cammina con i tacchi alti

Nieves Navarro was born on November 10, 1938 in Almería, Andalucía, Spain. She is an actress, known for Death Walks on High Heels (1971), Death Walks at Midnight (1972) and The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (1970). She was previously married to Luciano Ercoli.

3. Nicoletta Machiavelli

Actress | Scarabea - wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch?

Full name - Nicholetta Rangoni Machiavelli. The first role in the movie - Domenikangela Piras in the film of Luigi Zampa "The Question of Honor" (1965). In 1969, she was nominated for the German Academy Award as the best actress in the film "How Much Does a Man Need?" / Scarabea - wieviel Erde ...

4. Mónica Randall

Actress | Cristina Guzmán

Mónica Randall was born on November 18, 1942 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress and director, known for Cristina Guzmán (1968), Retrato de familia (1976) and La escopeta nacional (1978).

5. Claudia Cardinale

Actress | C'era una volta il West

Like many other female Italian film stars, Claudia Cardinale's entry into the business was by way of a beauty pageant. She was 17 years old and studying at the Centro Sperimentale in Rome when she entered a beauty contest, which resulted in her getting a succession of small film roles. Her earthy ...

6. Brigitte Bardot

Actress | Le mépris

Brigitte Bardot was born on September 28, 1934 in Paris, France. Her father had an engineering degree and worked with his father in the family business. Brigitte's mother encouraged her daughter to take up music and dance, and she proved to be very adept at it. By the time she was 15, Brigitte was ...

7. Jeanne Moreau

Actress | Jules et Jim

When people gave Louis Malle credit for making a star of Jeanne Moreau in Elevator to the Gallows (1958) immediately followed by The Lovers (1958), he would point out that Moreau by that time had already been "recognized as the prime stage actress of her generation." She had made it to the Comédie ...

8. Michèle Mercier

Actress | Angélique, marquise des anges

For Michèle Mercier, the role of Angélique, "the Marquise of the Angels," was both a blessing and a curse. It catapulted her to almost instant stardom, rivaling Brigitte Bardot in her celebrity and popularity, but ruined her acting career. The character of Angélique made to forget the other aspects...

9. Rosalba Neri

Actress | Esther and the King

She won a beauty pageant and attended il Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (The Center for Experimental Cinematography). In 1956, she received an offer to go to Hollywood and attend the Actor's Studio but didn't take the offer for undisclosed reasons.

She began her film career at the age of 15 ...

10. Rita Pavone

Soundtrack | The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Pavone's career began in 1962 when she won the first edition of the "Festa degli Sconosciuti" (Unknown performing artist contest), organized by famous singer Teddy Reno, who later became her husband and manager. In the following decade she became one of the most famous international stars, with Top...

11. Elisa Montés

Actress | Las últimas banderas

Her first acting steps took place on stage. In movies, her films can be divided in two periods: The first 10 years, usually embodying young angelic or prudish wives and the next 15 years, taking part in a wide number of co-productions. After the 70s, she has preferably dedicated to television and ...

12. Mara Krupp

Actress | Per qualche dollaro in più

Mara Krupp was born on October 26, 1935 in Italy. She is an actress, known for For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Big Bust-Out (1972) and Squillo (1964).

13. Lynn Redgrave

Actress | Gods and Monsters

Actress of both the English and American stage and screen, Lynn Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, England, into one of the world's most famous acting dynasties. As the daughter of Rachel Kempson and Sir Michael Redgrave, sister of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, and granddaughter of Roy...

14. Joan Collins

Actress | Dynasty

Joan Collins is an English actress from Paddington, London. She is most famous for playing the role of vengeful schemer Alexis Carrington Colby in the soap opera "Dynasty" (1981-1989). In 1997, She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama. In 2015, She...

15. Susan George

Actress | Straw Dogs

Susan George was born on July 26, 1950 in Surbiton, Surrey, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Straw Dogs (1971), Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974) and Mandingo (1975). She was previously married to Simon MacCorkindale.

16. Stella Stevens

Actress | The Poseidon Adventure

The early film career of Stella Stevens could be said to mirror that of Marilyn Monroe. She began by playing a succession of sensuous, blond glamour girls, from naïve virgins and funny coquettes to precocious or briny-tongued floozies. Her early maturity on screen may have reflected her own ...

17. Raquel Welch

Actress | The Three Musketeers

A new reigning 1960s international sex symbol took to the cinematic throne as soon as Raquel Welch emerged from the sea in her purposely depleted, furry prehistoric bikini. Tantalizingly wet with her garb clinging to all the right amazonian places, One Million Years B.C. (1966), if nothing else, ...

18. Jill Ireland

Actress | Hard Times

Jill Ireland was a British-American actress best known for her appearance as "Leila Kalomi," the only woman Mr. Spock ever loved (in the Star Trek (1966) episode, Star Trek: This Side of Paradise (1967)) and for her many supporting roles in the movies of Charles Bronson. She is also known for her ...

19. Sue Lyon

Actress | Lolita

Suellyn Lyon was born in Davenport, Iowa, the youngest of five siblings born to Sue Lyon (née Karr) and James Lyon. Sue Karr Lyon was 42 years old when she was widowed, when Suellyn was just 10 months old. Her mother worked in a hospital to provide for her children, and money was tight. The family ...

20. Janis Ian

Soundtrack | Mean Girls

Janis Ian is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s; her most widely recognized song, "At Seventeen", was released as a single from her 1975 album Between the Lines which reached number 1 on the Billboard chart.

Born in New York City, Ian entered ...

21. Dyanik Zurakowska

Actress | El coleccionista de cadáveres

Dyanik Zurakowska was born on March 22, 1947 in Elisabethville, Congo. She was an actress, known for Cauldron of Blood (1968), La llamada (1966) and The Destructors (1974). She died on January 24, 2011 in Malaga, Spain.

22. Françoise Fabian

Actress | Ma nuit chez Maud

Françoise Fabian was born on May 10, 1933 in Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]. She is an actress and writer, known for My Night at Maud's (1969), Belle de Jour (1967) and Me, Myself and Mum (2013). She was previously married to Marcel Bozzuffi and Jacques Becker.

23. Sylvie Fennec

Actress | Goodbye Emmanuelle

Sylvie Fennec was born on May 19, 1946 in Paris, France. She is an actress and production designer, known for Emmanuelle 3 (1977), Cinéma 16 (1975) and Châteauvallon (1985).

24. Pamela Tudor

Actress | Caccia ai violenti

Pamela Tudor is known for King of Africa (1968), The Stone Forest (1965) and Man on the Spying Trapeze (1966).

25. Luciana Gilli

Actress | Il conquistatore di Atlantide

Luciana Gilli was born on November 11, 1944 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Conqueror of Atlantis (1965), Sword of Damascus (1964) and Mexican Slayride (1967).

26. Elisa Ramírez

Actress | Los tres mosqueteros

Elisa Ramírez was born on December 2, 1943 in Alzira, Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain. She is an actress, known for The Three Musketeers (1970), La revoltosa (1969) and La Celestina (1969).

27. Chelo Alonso

Actress | Maciste nella valle dei Re

If you remember those sword and sandal spectacles that became the rage of Italian cinema during the late 1950s and early 1960s, then you will certainly recall this torrid brunet bombshell. Invariably cast as the ambitiously evil queen or undulating dancer/temptress whose soul mission was to ...

28. Magda Konopka

Actress | The Persuaders!

Magda Konopka was born on March 15, 1943 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. She is an actress, known for The Persuaders! (1971), Department S (1969) and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970). She was previously married to Jean-Louis Dessy.

29. Loredana Nusciak

Actress | Django

Loredana Nusciak was born on May 3, 1942 in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. She was an actress, known for Django (1966), No Way Out (1973) and Gladiators 7 (1962). She was married to Gianni Medici. She died on July 12, 2006 in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.

30. Carole André

Actress | Sandokan

Carole André was born on March 11, 1953 in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for Sandokan (1976), Face to Face (1967) and Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1983).

31. Agata Flori

Actress | 7 pistole per i MacGregor

Agata Flori was born on April 15, 1938 in Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia [now Tunisia]. She is an actress, known for 7 pistole per i MacGregor (1966), Operation Kid Brother (1967) and Up the MacGregors (1967).

32. Gabriella Giorgelli

Actress | I compagni

Gabriella Giorgelli was born on July 29, 1941 in Carrara, Tuscany, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Organizer (1963), The Police Are Blundering in the Dark (1975) and Bersaglio altezza uomo (1978).

33. Vonetta McGee

Actress | Repo Man

Born Lawrence Vonetta McGee, she got her break in Melinda (1972) and Hammer (1972) and hit paydirt as the love interest of the vampire in Blacula (1972), then starred with her then-boyfriend Max Julien in Thomasine & Bushrod (1974). In 1978 she starred opposite Bernie Casey and Ron O'Neal in ...

34. Miou-Miou

Actress | La science des rêves

Miou-Miou was born Sylvette Herry on February 22, 1950, in Paris, France. Her father was a gendarme, her mother was a sales-woman. Young Miou-Miou was selling strawberries helping out at her mother's fruit and vegetable stand at a street market. There she was spotted by actor-director Romain ...

35. Anne Francis

Actress | Forbidden Planet

Anne Francis got into show business quite early in life. She was born on September 16, 1930 in Ossining, New York (which is near Sing Sing prison), the only child of Phillip Ward Francis, a businessman/salesman, and the former Edith Albertson. A natural little beauty, she became a John Robert Powers...

36. Soledad Miranda

Actress | Eugénie

Soledad Miranda was a Spanish actress who appeared in many films in the 1960s. Her remarkable beauty and her tragic untimely death make her story the stuff of legend. She was born on July 9, 1943 in Seville, Spain. She started her career when only eight years old as a flamenco dancer and singer. ...

37. Gina Rovere

Actress | Adua e le compagne

Gina Rovere was born on May 18, 1936 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for Adua e le compagne (1960), Life Is Beautiful (1997) and Catch-22 (1970).

38. Mary Paz Pondal

Actress | Tristana

Mary Paz Pondal was born in 1942 in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. She is an actress, known for Tristana (1970), Teatro Club (1976) and Residencia para espías (1968).

39. Michèle Girardon

Actress | Hatari!

This stunning, fragile starlet was born Henriette Michèle Leone Girardon in Lyon in August 1938. Having completed her acting studies at the local conservatoire she won a competition as "the most photogenic girl in France" by the age of twenty. Photo shoots followed and a minor career as a model ...

40. Giulia Rubini

Actress | Le ragazze di San Frediano

Giulia Rubini was discovered by the director Luciano Emmer who spotted her photo in her art photographer uncle's shop window. Emmer, casting for a heroine for his comedy High School (1954), auditioned 18-year old Giulia who passed the test and went on to star in the picture. Giulia then tended to ...

41. Agnès Spaak

Actress | Gern hab' ich die Frauen gekillt

Agnès Spaak was born on April 29, 1944 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. She is an actress, known for Killer's Carnival (1966), La ragazzola (1965) and Killer Caliber .32 (1967).

42. Barbara Carroll

Actress | Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei

Barbara Carroll is known for The Last Days of Pompeii (1959), Zorro in the Court of England (1969) and The Fourth Wall (1969).

43. Rossana Martini

Actress | Requiescant

Rossana Martini was born on September 10, 1926 in Fidenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for Requiescant (1967), The Tough and the Mighty (1969) and It's a Hard Life (1964). She was married to Nino Crisman. She died on February 2, 1988 in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.

44. Mirella Maravidi

Actress | Io uccido, tu uccidi

Mirella Maravidi is known for Io uccido, tu uccidi (1965), Veneri al sole (1965) and How to Rob the Bank of Italy (1966).

45. Barbara Frey

Actress | I cento cavalieri

Barbara Frey was born on November 17, 1941 in Berlin, Germany. She is an actress and costume designer, known for I cento cavalieri (1964), Ein Mann namens Harry Brent (1968) and ...und keiner schämte sich (1960). She was previously married to Mark Damon.

46. Annabella Incontrera

Actress | Eneide

Annabella Incontrera was born on June 11, 1943 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for Eneide (1971), The Assassination Bureau (1969) and The Ambushers (1967). She was married to Guglielmo Biraghi. She died on September 19, 2004 in Rome, Italy.

47. Daniela Giordano

Actress | I barbieri di Sicilia

Daniela Giordano was born on November 7, 1946 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Giordano attended school in Milan, Italy, where she lived with her family for ten years before returning to Palermo at age fourteen. Daniela was the winner of several local beauty pageants in her home town of Palermo and, in ...

48. Lucia Modugno

Actress | Diabolik

Lucia Modugno was born on July 9, 1932 in Bitonto, Bari, Italy. She is an actress, known for Danger: Diabolik (1968), Operation White Shark (1966) and Isabella, Duchess of the Devils (1969).

49. Gemma Cuervo

Actress | Aquí no hay quien viva

Gemma Cuervo was born on June 22, 1936 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress, known for Aquí no hay quien viva (2003), I Hate My Body (1974) and Estudio 1 (1965). She was previously married to Fernando Guillén.

50. Rosy Zichel

Actress | L'uomo di Toledo

Rosy Zichel is known for Captain from Toledo (1965), War of the Zombies (1964) and Violenza segreta (1963).

51. Dana Ghia

Actress | Peccati di gioventù

Dana Ghia was born on July 13, 1932 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for So Young, So Lovely, So Vicious... (1975), Burn! (1969) and Smile Before Death (1972). She died on January 15, 2024 in Mori, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy.

52. Diana Lorys

Actress | O.K. Yevtushenko

Diana Lorys was born on October 20, 1940 in Madrid, Spain. She is an actress, known for O.K. Yevtushenko (1967), Proceso a Jesús (1974) and Residencia para espías (1968).

53. Luz Márquez

Actress | La tirana

Luz Márquez was born on December 12, 1935 in Madrid, Spain. She is an actress, known for La tirana (1958), Saul e David (1964) and The Texican (1966).

54. Marianna Hill

Actress | High Plains Drifter

A familiar character actress, Marianna Hill is the daughter of a building contractor. From her native southern California, her family moved around frequently, including to Canada, Spain and Great Britain. As a result, she became familiar with different accents and dialects, whether a French accent ...

55. Imogen Hassall

Actress | Toomorrow

Imogen Hassall is sometimes referred to as "The Countess of Cleavage" as she was better known for her glamorous celebrity than her acting talent. Imogen was born on August 25 1942, in Woking, Surrey, England and rose to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an international B-movie ...

56. Laura Antonelli

Actress | Passione d'amore

Laura Antonelli was born on November 28, 1941 in Pola, Istria, Italy [now Pula, Istria, Croatia]. She was an actress, known for Passion of Love (1981), Malicious (1973) and The Innocent (1976). She was married to Enrico Piacentini. She died on June 22, 2015 in Ladispoli, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

57. Perla Cristal

Actress | Il ponte dei sospiri

Perla Cristal was born on September 29, 1937 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is an actress, known for The Avenger of Venice (1964), Novela (1963) and Espionage in Tangiers (1965).

58. Femi Benussi

Actress | Poppea... una prostituta al servizio dell'impero

Femi Benussi was born on March 4, 1945 in Rovigno, Istria, Italy [now Rovinj, Istria, Croatia]. She is an actress, known for Poppea... una prostituta al servizio dell'impero (1972), Bloody Pit of Horror (1965) and La commessa (1975).

59. Marisa Traversi

Actress | Flashman

Marisa Traversi was born on August 6, 1934 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for Flashman (1967), Shoot First, Die Later (1974) and Detective Story (1970). She died on March 15, 2023 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

60. Antonietta Fiorito

Actress | Samoa, regina della giungla

Antonietta Fiorito is known for Samoa, Queen of the Jungle (1968), Assalto al tesoro di stato (1967) and ... If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death. (1968).

61. Marianne Koch

Actress | Per un pugno di dollari

After the birth of her two children, Marie Aumüller married Rudolf Koch. Her children took the name of their stepfather. Although the marriage of Rudolf and Marie Koch was short-lived, the children did not know the identity of their biological father, Rudolf Schindler, a well-known ...

62. Ethel Rojo

Actress | Esa pícara pelirroja

Ethel Rojo was born on December 23, 1937 in Santiago del Estero, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Esa pícara pelirroja (1963), No toca botón (1987) and Así es mi México (1963). She was married to Gerardo González. She died on June 24, 2012 in Buenos Aires, ...

63. Helga Liné

Actress | Laberinto de pasiones

Gorgeously svelte and classy redhead stunner Helga Line was born as Helga Lina Stern on July 14th, 1931 in Berlin, Germany. Helga began her career as a dancer and acrobat in circus performances in Portugal. She also later worked as a model. Line began acting in movies in the early 40s. Helga moved ...

64. Lorella De Luca

Actress | Orlando e i Paladini di Francia

Lorella De Luca was born on September 17, 1940 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress and assistant director, known for Orlando e i Paladini di Francia (1956), Le fils de Tarass Boulba (1962) and Tough Guys (1974). She was married to Duccio Tessari. She died on January 9, 2014 in Rome, ...

65. Sylvia Syms

Actress | The Queen

London-born Sylvia May Laura Syms hit major film appeal at a relatively young age. Born on January 6, 1934, she was educated at convent schools before receiving dramatic training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She made her stage debut in a production of "The Apple Cart" in 1954.

A repertory ...

66. Kate O'Mara

Actress | Department S

Kate O'Mara was born Frances Meredith Carroll on August 10, 1939 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. A hard-looking brunette with high cheekbones, Kate was the daughter of actress Hazel Bainbridge and John Carroll and prodded into performing as a child. Educated at the Aida Foster School, she ...

67. Sheila Burrell

Actress | Cold Comfort Farm

Sheila Burrell was born on May 9, 1922 in Blackheath, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Paranoiac (1963) and The Feathered Serpent (1976). She was married to David Sim and Laurence Payne. She died on July 19, 2011 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, ...

68. Jany Clair

Actress | Maciste e la regina di Samar

Jany Clair was born on September 2, 1938 in Lille, France. She is an actress, known for Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964), Conquest of Mycene (1963) and The Night They Killed Rasputin (1960).

69. Monika Brugger

Actress | Wanted Johnny Texas

Monika Brugger is known for Wanted Johnny Texas (1967), Buckaroo: The Winchester Does Not Forgive (1967) and Suchen Sie Dr. Suk! (1972).

70. Alida Chelli

Actress | Le corniaud

Alida Chelli was born on October 23, 1943 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Sucker (1965), They're a Weird Mob (1966) and Casa dolce casa (1992). She was married to Walter Chiari. She died on December 14, 2012 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

71. Rosanna Schiaffino

Actress | La mandragola

Rosanna Schiaffino was born on November 25, 1939 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. She was an actress, known for La mandragola (1965), The Miracle of the Wolves (1961) and Romulus and the Sabines (1961). She was married to Giorgio Enrico Falck and Alfredo Bini. She died on October 17, 2009 in Milan, ...

72. Patty Shepard

Actress | Descanse en piezas

Strikingly comely brunette Patty Shepard was born in 1945 in Greenville, South Carolina. The daughter of a U.S. Air Force official, Patty moved to Spain when she was only 18 years old. After becoming popular as a model in a series of TV commercials, the lovely Ms. Shepard embarked on an acting ...