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Ingrid Steeger was the third child of Kurt and Käthe Stengert, who already had son Udo and daughter Jutta. After school Ingrid worked as a secretary when she was discovered by photographer Frank Quade. Soon pinup photos of her appeared in numerous men's magazines, especially "SEXY", where even today she is the girl with the most cover shots. She was elected Miss Filmfestival (Berlin 1968) and soon was into movies herself. Her early films were cheap sex movies, mostly of the "Report" type. Not wanting to use her real name--because her father objected--and not yet having decided on a stage name, her first movie billed her as "Ingrid Stengel".
Her "very" first movie deserves a special mention. Before the age of video, porn films for home viewing were Super 8 shorts and Ingrid starred uncredited in one of those, Die perverse Herrin und ihre Opfer (1969) ("The Perverted Mistress and Her Victims"). This movie had long been forgotten when, at the height of her career, producer Gerd Wasmund (aka Mike Hunter) reissued it on video, retitled "Ingrid Steeger's Porno Action". She went to court to stop distribution and won. The same thing happened again when Beate Uhse distributed a collection of old naturalist shots of Ingrid, titled "Ingrid - blutjung und verführerisch" ("Ingrid--Youngblooded and Tempting"). Again she had to go to court to stop distribution. In addition to her movies, she was given small but serious roles in TV productions, where--strange as it might seem--nobody seemed to know about her sex films. Helmut Holger, one of her colleagues, suggested her to director Michael Pfleghar, who was casting for a new TV comedy series called Klimbim (1973), a German version of the American show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967). This was her breakthrough. The public loved her in her new role as "Klimbim-clown", and decent pictures of her appeared in women's and teen's magazines. The readers of Germany's biggest teen magazine, "BRAVO", awarded her the "Otto", its top award, four times. (1975: Bronze, 1976 & 1977: Silver, 1978: Gold). It seemed that nobody could stop her now.
She followed "Klimbim" with Zwei himmlische Töchter (1978) ("Two Heavenly Daughters"), another successful comedy series, but flopped badly with Susi (1980) a third one, all directed by Pfleghar. From then on it was downhill for her. She went to France to live with her actor-friend Jean-Paul Zehnacker, but they soon separated. Ingrid returned to Germany to become a mature, serious actress, in the vein of her idols Shirley MacLaine and Goldie Hawn, but the public wouldn't let her. The same public that once had forgiven her sex-film past would not forget "Klimbim", though the series hadn't been shown for ages. Nearly every article on her began with "Ingrid Steeger, ex-clown ("Klimbim"), will ...".Michael Phlegar couldn't help her, either; he ran into severe personal problems and committed suicide a few years later. Though Ingrid can act, her few serious roles were doomed from the start. In recent years she has concentrated on theater and played mostly boulevard comedies. In 1995 she starred in the Karl May summer theater in Bad Segeberg as "Cowgirl Mona".
Her private life has been rather chaotic, too. Her marriages, liaisons and affairs are well chronicled and always mentioned when she is seen with somebody new. When she first entered films, she married cameraman Lothar E. Stickelbrucks in 1973, but they divorced two years later. She had an affair with director Michael Pfleghar, though neither one admitted it at that time (it was rumored that she even wanted to leave Germany to go to Hollywood with him). Next was Peter Koenecke, who organized safari tours in Kenya. They planned to marry in 1979 and move to Kenya together. She was even said to have learned Swahili. Next was French actor Jean-Paul Zehnacker, who starred with her in "Susi". She moved to live with him in France, but returned to Germany in 1984 when love turned to friendship. After him came Lothar Köllner (1985-86), owner of a hi-fi shop in Murnau, and she even obtained her driver's license at the age of 38 to see him more often. Then came film director Dieter Wedel (1988-91), whom she shared with another woman. At least, he starred her in his TV series Wilder Westen inclusive (1988) and Der große Bellheim (1993), giving her a chance for some serious acting.
Then she met Tom LaBlanc, an American Indian of the Dakota tribe, at a World Uranium hearing and they got married in a rush in August 1992. Nobody gave them much of a chance, because he didn't speak German and she didn't speak much English. Most photos show them side by side, Tom having to wear Indian clothing with feather headdress for the photographers, holding Ingrid's dachshund and looking very uneasy. Nevertheless, the press never accepted him. The couple was always referred to as "Ingrid and her Indian". Soon he was spending most of his time in America, fighting for the rights of his people while Ingrid was left at home. They divorced in October 1995.
Next was Swiss actor Bernd Seebacher. Immediately following her divorce from LaBlanc, she fell in love with Bernd and August 1996 was set as the date for the wedding. The couple was shown in magazines, choosing rings and posing in their wedding dresses, but at the last possible moment the wedding was postponed. Unfortunately, Ingrid had already sold her apartment in Munich to live with her husband in Switzerland. Now that she remained a foreigner, she had to leave the country. Her only true friend in all those years was her dachshund Felix. There is scarcely one private photo of Ingrid without her dog. When Felix was killed in France by a hit-and-run driver, she mourned a long time and finally got Felix II. This one even went on stage with her in "Champagner-Complex" and was said to have been the matchmaker when she met Dieter Wedel. When Felix II had to be put to sleep in 1995, she didn't want another one, but Wedel kept up the tradition by presenting her with a young dachshund called Lucky Luke.- Actress
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Christine Schuberth was born on 11 February 1944 in Vienna, Austria. She is an actress, known for The Games Schoolgirls Play (1972), Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast (1997) and Abarten der körperlichen Liebe (1970).- Yelena Samarina was born on December 16, 1927 in Omsk, Russian SFSR, USSR as Yelena Georgievna Volozhanina. She was an actress, known for The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971), Los felices sesenta (1963), El filo del miedo (1967) and Don Juan in Hell (1991). She was married to Juan Manuel López Iglesias, the founder of Spain's Alta Films. She died on May 4, 2011 in Madrid, Spain.
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Andrea Albani was born on 13 October 1960 in Catalonia, Spain. She was an actress and writer, known for El pico (1983), Mad Foxes (1981) and La desnuda chica del relax (1981). She died on 18 January 1994 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.- Birgit Bergen was born on 17 August 1938 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She is an actress, known for Brass Target (1978), Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhos'n (1973) and Maciste contro i mostri (1962).
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The daughter of actress Geneviève Sorya, in 1948 she played the part of Juliette in The Lovers of Verona (1949). During the 1950s and 1960s she made various films, including Montparnasse 19 (1958) and La Dolce Vita (1960), but only Lola (1961) , Jacques Demy, and A Man and a Woman (1966) Claude Lelouch saw major success. With the latter she had, but did not use, the chance to establish herself in America. Therefore she was only participating in second-row productions in Europe and America.- Gabriella Andreini was born on 16 April 1938 in Naples, Campania, Italy. She was an actress, known for Invasion 1700 (1962), Totò contro Maciste (1962) and Captain from Toledo (1965). She died on 28 April 2024 in Salerno, Campania, Italy.
- Tina Aumont was born on 14 February 1946 in Hollywood, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Texas Across the River (1966), Man, Pride & Vengeance (1967) and Satyricon (1969). She was married to Jean-François Ferriol and Christian Marquand. She died on 28 October 2006 in Port-Vendres, Pyrénées-Orientales, France.
- Born in Pula, near Trieste, young Marisa Bartoli who was soon to bloom into an alluring beauty, studied drama at the Teatro Stabile di Trieste before moving to Rome to further her training at Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica. In the Italian capital, she took part in the "New faces Contest", organized by the RAI state TV channel and had the luck to find herself among the chosen. Thanks to this prize, Marisa could start her TV career, appearing for the first time in 1963 in a TV mini-series. From then on she worked mainly for the small screen in series, filmed plays and TV films, her most significant role being that of Andromache in Franco Rossi's remarkable "Le avventure di Enea" (1974). She also played in four films for the big screen, the most interesting of which is doubtless Maurizio Lucidi's Hitchcockian "La vittima designata" in 1971. After thirty-four filmed performances, Marisa Bartoli decided to retire by the end of 1991.
- Isabella Biagini was born on 8 December 1940 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for F.F.S.S., cioè: '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?' (1983), Nick the Sting (1976) and Quelli belli... siamo noi (1971). She was married to Roberto Romagnani Cardella and Pietro Campagnola. She died on 14 April 2018 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Marina Marfoglia was born on 15 May 1946 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for Quella peste di Pierina (1982), Rita the Mosquito (1966) and Un uomo da ridere (1980). She died on 20 June 2022 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Marilda Donà was born on 19 November 1955 in Meran, South Tyrol, Italy. She is an actress, known for La nouvelle malle des Indes (1981), Speed Cross (1980) and Ritornano quelli della calibro 38 (1977).
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Mimsy Farmer first began acting at age 16, when a press agent noticed her and offered her work in the film, Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961), an unbilled bit with one line as a girl in the lobby. Her first billed film was a featured part in Spencer's Mountain (1963), starring Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara and James MacArthur. After her first acting role, Mimsy took acting lessons after graduation and landed a few more roles, playing featured characters in the films, Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965), Hot Rods to Hell (1966), Riot on Sunset Strip (1967) and Devil's Angels (1967). After spending a year in Canada and working in a research hospital, she returned to the USA, moved to Los Angeles, and was soon cast for a role in Roger Corman's The Wild Racers (1968), which was directed by Daniel Haller. Her experience on that film was to her 'a pleasant one' because she first traveled to Europe and experienced the various countries, and to England to visit her older brother, who worked as a math teacher at a university in London.
After appearing in the film, More (1969), Mimsy traveled to Italy for a vacation and met her future husband, screenwriter Vincenzo Cerami, who wanted to write her a part in a film. He was later fired as the scriptwriter and her role was not cast. After spending time in Italy, and disillusioned by the civil unrest and political problems with the USA and its involvement in the Vietnam War, Mimsy, a liberal left-winger, settled in Italy to continue her acting career there.
Mimsy Farmer first became an international star when Dario Argento cast her to appear alongside Michael Brandon in 'giallo' mystery-thriller, Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971) (aka "Four Flies on Grey Velvet"), in 1971. After her success with "Four Flies on Grey Velvet" (1971), Mimsy remained in Italy and a steady stream of acting roles followed with dramatic parts in dramas and thrillers, including Allonsanfan (1974), and The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974), directed by Francesco Barilli. One of her best roles was a starring role in the horror-mystery-thriller, Autopsy (1975) (aka "Autopsy"), directed by Armando Crispino, where she played a pathologist investigating a murder.
She also appeared in two films, directed by Ruggero Deodato, titled Concorde Affaire '79 (1979) and Body Count (1986). Lucio Fulci even cast her, in 1981, for a co-starring part in The Black Cat (1981) (aka "The Black Cat") (1981), playing the heroine/victim. She also appeared in a number of French language films and TV. After her divorce from Vincenzo Cerami in the 1980s, Mimsy and her teenage daughter, Aisha Cerami, settled in France, where she also did some French-language movie and TV roles and she considers French an easier language to learn and speak than Italian.- Rosa Fumetto was born on 22 August 1946 in Torino, Italy. She is an actress, known for Les tentations de Marianne (1973), La vedova del trullo (1979) and Cartoline italiane (1987).
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Diminutive Irish-Italian Lisa Gastoni began her acting career in Britain after her family settled there in 1948. Though she had initially wanted to be an architect, she changed her mind and became a model and then an actress, making her debut screen appearance in 1954. She appeared mostly in B-movies, at one time under contract to British Lion. Her first featured role of note was in the naval farce The Baby and the Battleship (1956), followed by a few leads in comedies like Three Men in a Boat (1956) and Second Fiddle (1957), or crime thrillers like Menace in the Night (1957), Thunder Over Tangier (1957) and Prescription for Murder (1958). She also guest starred in two episodes of ITV's Danger Man (1960). She was briefly married in the mid-50s to a physics professor.
In 1961, Gastoni returned to Italy, following a second marriage to a Greek actor. She was immediately elevated to higher profile roles, beginning with that of legendary pirate Mary Read in the swashbuckling adventure Queen of the Seas (1961). She also paid her inevitable ornamental dues in a handful of sword-and-sandal spectacles. However, by the middle of the decade, Gastoni began to shed her 'good girl' image to parlay her prominence into a series of effective villainous portrayals: the nefarious Milady de Winter in I quattro moschettieri (1964), Lucrezia Borgia in L'uomo che ride (1966) and the wife of gangster Luciano Luttring ("the machine gun soloist") in Carlo Lizzani's Wake Up and Die (1966). This role won her a Best Actress Silver Ribbon, followed in 1968 with a Golden Plate at the David di Donatello Awards (the Italian equivalent of the Oscars) for her performance in the morbidly perverse drama Come Play with Me (1968).
In the 70s, Gastoni had yet more critical success playing seductive or sexually frustrated middle-class women in avant garde productions like Amore amaro (1974) (the story of two lovers separated by age, social background and irreconcilable political ideologies) and the morally ambiguous drama Submission (1976). She also played Benito Mussolini's mistress, Claretta Petacci, in The Last 4 Days (1974). Less well received (despite a famous score by Ennio Morricone) was the excessively arty erotic fantasy Maddalena (1971), a curious and belated foray into psychedelics.
Gastoni absented herself from the screen between 1979 and 2005 to pursue other muses (painting and writing). A more recent performance in the drama Sacred Heart (2005) won her a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the David di Donatello Awards.- Actress
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Pam Grier was born in Winston-Salem, NC, one of four children of Gwendolyn Sylvia (Samuels), a nurse, and Clarence Ransom Grier Jr., an Air Force mechanic. Pam has been a major African-American star from the early 1970s. Her career started in 1971, when Roger Corman of New World Pictures launched her with The Big Doll House (1971), about a women's penitentiary, and The Big Bird Cage (1972). Her strong role put her into a five-year contract with Samuel Z. Arkoff of American-International Pictures, and she became a leading lady in action films such as Jack Hill's Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974), the comic strip character Friday Foster (1975) and William Girdler's 'Sheba, Baby' (1975). She continued working with American-International, where she portrayed William Marshall's vampire victim in the Blacula (1972) sequel, Scream Blacula Scream (1973).
During the 1980s she became a regular on Miami Vice (1984) and played a supporting role as an evil witch in Ray Bradbury's and Walt Disney Pictures' Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983), then returned to action as Steven Seagal's partner in Above the Law (1988). Her most famous role of the 1990s was probably Jackie Brown (1997), directed by Quentin Tarantino, which was an homage to her earlier 1970s action roles, She occasionally did supporting roles, as in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! (1996), In Too Deep (1999) and a funny performance in Jawbreaker (1999). She also appeared in John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001) and co-starred with Snoop Dogg in Bones (2001). Her entire career of over 30 years has brought only success for this beautiful and talented actress.
A sister of Grier's died from cancer in 1990 and the son of that sister committed suicide because of his mother's illness. Pam herself was diagnosed with cancer in 1988 and given 18 months to live, which has had an effect on how she has chosen to live. She has never been wed, although she has been romantically linked to Richard Pryor and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in the past.- Monica Guerritore was born on 5 January 1958 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for La lupa (1996), Love Under the Elms (1975) and On the Edge (2009). She has been married to Roberto Zaccaria since 17 August 2010. She was previously married to Gabriele Lavia.
- Beba Loncar was born on 28 April 1943 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. She is an actress, known for Some Girls Do (1969), The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966) and Love and Fashion (1960). She is married to Stevan Marinkovic Knicanin. She was previously married to Josip Radeljak.
- Krista Nell was born in 1946 in Austria. She was an actress, known for Un corpo caldo per l'inferno (1969), Hand of the Godfather (1972) and The Million Eyes of Sumuru (1967). She died on 19 June 1975 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Gloria Piedimonte was born on 27 May 1955 in Mantua, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for Insanlari Seveceksin (1979), Baila guapa (1979) and Violence for Kicks (1976). She was married to Tony. She died on 6 January 2022 in Mantua, Lombardy, Italy.
- Tiziana Pini was born on 13 August 1958 in Sanremo, Liguria, Italy. She is an actress, known for Una gita scolastica (1983), In viaggio con papà (1982) and The Raffle (1991).
- Giovanna Ralli was born on 2 January 1935 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress and writer, known for We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974), The Mercenary (1968) and A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State (1971). She was previously married to Ettore Boschi.
- Dominique Sanda was born in 1951, in Paris, France. When she was 16, she left her upper-class family and married, but divorced two years later. She found a temporary job as a Vogue model, when Robert Bresson gave her the starring part in his absorbing drama A Gentle Woman (1969); she was quite impressive as a young woman who commits suicide when she finds out that her husband is unable to love her for what she really is. She was then offered the female lead in Vittorio De Sica's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970), as the provocative daughter of a rich Jewish family. Afterwards, she worked with Bernardo Bertolucci on the much-discussed The Conformist (1970), as the sensual wife of an anti-fascist professor, and co-starred with Paul Newman in John Huston's spy thriller, The MacKintosh Man (1973). She worked again with Bertolucci in the epic, 1900 (1976), and won the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Prize for her performance in Mauro Bolognini's The Inheritance (1976), as an Italian patriarch's daughter-in-law. She gave one more unforgettable performance in Jacques Demy's original musical, A Room in Town (1982), as a femme fatale. Today, in her seventies, she is still busy, appearing in international films and TV series.
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Romy Schneider was born on 23 September 1938 in Vienna, Austria into a family of actors. Making her film debut at the age of 15, her breakthrough came two years later in the very popular trilogy Sissi (1955). Her mother, supervising her daughter's career, immediately approved Romy's participation in Christine (1958), the remake of Max Ophüls's Playing at Love (1933), where Magda Schneider once starred herself. During the shooting, she fell in love with her co-star Alain Delon and eventually moved with him to Paris. At that time, she started her international career collaborating with famous directors such as Luchino Visconti and Orson Welles. After Delon had broken up with her in 1964, she married Harry Meyen shortly after. Although she gave birth to a boy, David-Christopher, their relationship was difficult, so they divorced in 1975. Being unsatisfied with her personal life, she turned to alcohol and drugs, but her cinematic career -especially in France- remained intact. She was the first actress, receiving the new created César Award as "Best Actress" for her role in That Most Important Thing: Love (1975). Three years later, she was awarded again for A Simple Story (1978). After a short marriage to her former secretary Daniel Biasini, being the father of her daughter Sarah Biasini, she suffered the hardest blow of her life when her son was impaled on a fence in 1981. She never managed to recover from this loss and died on 29 May 1982 in Paris. Although it was suggested she committed suicide caused by an overdose of sleeping pills, she was declared to have died from cardiac arrest.- Actress
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Maria Schneider was a French actress. At age 19 she became famous for Bernardo Bertolucci's film Last Tango in Paris (1972), and The Passenger (1975).
As a teenager, she adored films, going to the cinema up to four times a week. She left home at 15 after an argument with her mother and went to Paris, where she made her stage acting debut that same year.
Her film debut was an uncredited role in The Christmas Tree (1969).
In Last Tango in Paris she performed several nude scenes. After the film release she decided never to work nude again.
In early 1976, she abandoned the film set of Caligula and was replaced by Teresa Ann Savoy.
She and Brando remained friends until his death.
Schneider died of breast cancer on 3 February 2011 at age 58.- Erna Schurer was born on 18 August 1942 in Naples, Campania, Italy. She is an actress, known for Deported Women of the SS Special Section (1976) and The Doll of Satan (1969).
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Catherine Spaak was born on 3 April 1945 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. She was an actress and writer, known for The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971), The Easy Life (1962) and The Empty Canvas (1963). She was married to Vladimiro Tuselli, Daniel Rey, Johnny Dorelli and Fabrizio Capucci. She died on 17 April 2022 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Actress
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Ingrid trained as a ballet dancer and attended Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre. She came to fame thanks to Bergman's "Wild Strawberries". She acted in 9 Ingmar Bergman's films. Her fame allowed her to act in Luchino Visconti's "The Damned" in 1969. Ingrid Thulin lived in Rome since the 1960's. She came back to Sweden for her health treatment recently.- Eleonora Vallone was born on 1 February 1953 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for Fuga scabrosamente pericolosa (1981), Carnada (1980) and A Tale of Africa (1980).
- Elisabetta Virgili is known for Il maestro di violino (1976), The Great Adventure (1975) and Peccato originale (1981).
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Milena Vukotic was born on 23 April 1935 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), Letters to Juliet (2010) and A Good Woman (2004).- Italian actress Antiniska is mostly remembered as one of the female victims in Pier Paolo Pasolini's 'Salò; o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975)_. She was 18 when Pasolini found her in a model agency and gave her her role in the movie where she, like the rest of the young cast, played a character with her own name. Her next movie was the comedy La sposina (1976), probably her only main role. After that, Antiniska would go on taking only supporting roles. The most memorable of which was in the nazi-exploitation The Gestapo's Last Orgy (1977),. Her last know role was a brief appearance in The Sister of Ursula (1978). Her scenes were added to the script after the shooting had already begun.
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Anita Sanders, born Anita Johannesson, in Sweden, is a Swedish actress and photo model. Anita Sanders began her film career with a minor role in "La fuga" (1964), followed by a topless appearance in Federico Fellini's "Juliet of the Spirits" and Elio Petri's "The 10th Victim" (1965). In 1967, she was cast for the lead role in Tinto Brass-Dino De Laurentiis experimental film "Nerosubianco". Her last film as an actress was "That Malicious Age" of Silvio Amadio in 1975, where she played the supporting role beside Gloria Guida.- Mara Venier was born on 20 October 1950 in Venice, Veneto, Italy. She is an actress, known for Un'emozione in più (1979), Caramelle da uno sconosciuto (1987) and Urban Animals (1987). She has been married to Nicola Carraro since 28 June 2006. She was previously married to Jerry Calà and Francesco Ferracini.
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Pamela Villoresi was born on 1 January 1957 in Prato, Tuscany, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Seagull (1977), The Great Beauty (2013) and Splendor (1989).- Actress
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Daughter of the former speaker of the Italian Communist Party's delegation at the Lazio's Regional Council, Sabrina Ferilli never kept secret her leftism. Firm and stubborn, she did not care about the first unsuccessful attempts to come on to the stage. Her stubbornness was rewarded in the 1990, when she got a part in the Alessandro D'Alatri's film Americano rosso (1991). From that moment her success never ended. She lives with their two pets, a kitten and a tiny dog. Since she loves her privacy, she does not like to talk about their love affairs. She is also a big AS Roma's (Football Team) fan: she launched the official presentation of the team, in the summer of the 1999, at the Olympic Stadium, and she is a member of the AS Roma's Fans Council (a consultive board composed by famous Roma's fans like the actor Alberto Sordi). Typical Italian beauty - she also made an advertising campaign for a famous Spaghetti brand - a recent poll (in which Italian males from 15 to 34 yrs. were asked for to indicate one of the famous Italian women they would love) stated that Sabrina Ferilli is the most loved Italian woman.- Actress
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Gioia Scola was born on 28 October 1961 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress and producer, known for Réquiem por Granada (1991), Atlantis Interceptors (1983) and Obsession: A Taste for Fear (1987).- Trine Michelsen was born on 21 January 1966 in Gentofte, Denmark. She was an actress, known for The Idiots (1998), Tentazione (1987) and The Girl in a Swing (1988). She died on 17 January 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Petra Scharbach was born in Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.
- Virna Bonino was born on 28 May 1963 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. She was an actress. She died on 3 December 2015 in Rome, Italy.
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Luciana Turina was born on 10 August 1946 in Malavicina, Mantua, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Ciao marziano (1980), Fearless (1978) and Carioca tigre (1976).- Annarita Grapputo was born in 1954. She is an actress, known for Don't Look in the Attic (1982).
- Manuela Arcuri is an actress, model, and TV personality who graduated from the Accademia d'arte drammatica in Rome, Italy. She made her first appearances as an actress in Black Holes (1995) and I laureati (1995). In 1999, director Giorgio Panariello offered her a major role for his film Bagnomaria (1999). A year later, Manuela graced the cover of Playboy Italia's October issue and continued her work for TV shows such as Mai dire Gol, Carabinieri, Festival di Sanremo (1951) and Scherzi a parte (1992).
Her most challenging role happened in 2008 for the TV drama Io non dimentico (2008). The Italian beauty continues to excite and impress with the lead role in the series Il peccato e la vergogna (2010) and later with Pupetta: Il coraggio e la passione (2013) where she was joined by iconic Italian actress Eva Grimaldi and won the Best Actress award at Roma Fiction Fest. Manuela Arcuri varies her acting skills while remaining hot and tantalizing with the comedy Non si ruba a casa dei ladri (2016) and romance mini-series Il bello delle donne... alcuni anni dopo (2017). - Hunziker is the daughter of a Dutch woman and a Swiss painter. In 1980 the family moved to German-speaking Switzerland and lived, among other places, in the Bernese community of Ostermundigen and in Zuchwil near Solothurn. In 1993 Michelle moved to Bologna with her mother and worked as a catalog model. During this time, she traveled to Milan at the age of 17 to pursue a career as a model. In the Lombard metropolis she discovered Riccardo Gay, one of Italy's most renowned agents, who immediately signed her up. Since then, Hunziker has attracted a lot of attention, especially with erotic lingerie advertising. As an 18-year-old, Hunziker met Eros Ramazotti in a discotheque. In 1997 the couple had a child, daughter Aurora. The following year they married. In 1998, Hunziker accepted her first offer as a presenter on the Italian prime-time comedy show "Paperissima Sprint".
Soon afterwards she also hosted the shows "Zelig" and "Scherzi a parte" for Italian television, for which she was twice awarded the most coveted Italian TV award in April 2002. Michelle Hunziker later also took acting lessons with Belitta Moreno in Los Angeles, after which she also took on smaller roles in four films: "Voglio stare sotto al letto", "The Protagonist", "Ancient Warriors" and "Alex, the Aries". In Germany, Hunziker hosted the "Golden Camera" for the first time in 1998 with Thomas Gottschalk. She then appeared as a laudator at the Bambi Awards and as a guest on several shows. Together with Thomas Elstner, Frank Elstner's son, she also directed the ARD program "Erstes Glück", in which celebrities talked about their first love. In Italy, Michelle Hunziker recorded the show "Festival Bar", a superlative music show with 40 international artists, two episodes of which were broadcast in prime time in autumn 2002.
In 2002 she also toured theaters throughout Italy with the cult TV show "Zelig". After seven years of marriage to the Italian pop star Eros Ramazotti, Hunziker initiated the separation of the relationship in 2002. She retained custody of their daughter Aurora. In November 2002, Hunziker was seen as the presenter of the RTL show "Deutschland sucht den Superstar" together with Carsten Spengemann. In this role, she was able to take part in the election of the "Superstar" in the spring of 2003 - together with Dieter Bohlen, among others - which was chosen on March 9th by 19-year-old Alexander Klaws. In September 2003, the second season of "Deutschland sucht den Superstar" started on RTL, with Michelle Hunziker once again serving as presenter. After working in Germany, she returned to her native Italy in 2004. Here Michelle Hunziker moderates the show "Striscia La NOTEIA" (in German: "News Streiflichter") on the channel Canale 5. Her first album "Lole" and the single from it "From Noon Till Midnight" were released in December 2006.
In 2007, she hosted the 57th edition of the San Remo Music Festival alongside Pippo Baudo. From October 3, 2009, she hosted the German-language television show "Wetten,dass..?" alongside Thomas Gottschalk. - Actress
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Carla Calò was born on 21 September 1926 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. She was an actress and costume designer, known for Caesar the Conqueror (1962), Le calde notti di Poppea (1969) and Goliath and the Dragon (1960). She died on 29 December 2019 in Forano, Lazio, Italy.- Carla Brait is known for Escape from the Bronx (1983), La cameriera nera (1976) and The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972).
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Zora Kerova was born on 11 August 1950 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She is an actress, known for The True Story of the Nun of Monza (1980), Cannibal Ferox (1981) and The Grim Reaper (1980). She was previously married to Petr Hapka.- Annie Carol Edel is known for Almost Human (1974) and Crazy Desires of a Murderer (1977).
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Brigitte Lahaie was born on October 12, 1955 in Tourcoing, Nord, France. Her father was a banker and her mother was an accountant. Brigitte also has two brothers and a sister. Lahaie moved with her sister to Paris, France in 1975 and worked in a shoe store prior to getting her first film job through a newspaper advert. Brigitte began performing in explicit hardcore movies in 1976 just a year following the legalization of hardcore pornography in France. After establishing herself as a star attraction in adult fare, Brigitte played a small role in the horror picture The Grapes of Death (1978) for cult cinema director Jean Rollin. Lahaie went on to tackle a lead role in Fascination (1979) for Rollin. Moreover, in the early 1980's Brigitte decided to stop doing porn and made a concentrated effort to appear in more traditional mainstream films under the alias Brigitte Simonin. (She has small parts in such mainstream movies as Diva (1981) and Henry & June (1990).) In addition, Lahaie published an autobiography in 1987, recorded and released a pop single, and even did a successful one-woman stage show about her life and career before going on to become the hostess of her own daily talk radio show that largely centers on issues concerning sexuality and relationships. Brigitte was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame as a Film Pioneer in 2014.- Actress
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Stunningly comely and slinky brunette Lina Romay rates highly as one of the boldest, most sensuous, and enticing actresses to have appeared with tremendous frequency in a large volume of European horror and exploitation features made from the early 1970s to the early 21st century.
Romay was born Rosa Maria Almirall on June 25, 1954, in Barcelona, Cataluna, Spain. Her cinematic pseudonym was taken from Lina Romay, a singer/actress in mambo king Xavier Cugat's band in the 1940s. Following graduation from high school, Romay studied the arts, married actor/photographer Raymond Hardy (they later divorced), and began acting in stage productions. Lina first met infamous and prolific maverick Spanish independent filmmaker Jesús Franco in the early 1970s. Romay and Franco eventually became a couple. Lina for a long time was Franco's common law wife until they officially wed on April 23, 2008.
Lina made her film debut as a gypsy girl in The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973). She had small parts in a few other Franco films before playing more substantial lead and co-starring roles (she acted in over 100 Franco films). Despite her lack of formal training, Lina nonetheless naturally projected an extremely brazen, earthy, and uninhibited screen presence that was both alluring and captivating in equal measure. In fact, her open, unabashed, and downright aggressive sexuality even led to her willing and enthusiastic participation in explicit scenes in hardcore porno fare. Lina's most memorable roles include the voracious Countess Irina Karlstein in Female Vampire (1973), brutalized innocent Maria in the sensationally sleazy Barbed Wire Dolls (1976), vicious top con Juana in the similarly scuzzy Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (1977), especially inspired in a dual part in Die Marquise von Sade (1976) and bawdy prostitute Marika in the gloomy Jack the Ripper (1976).
Moreover, Romay posed for nude pictorials in such men's magazines as "Cinema X" and "Sex Stars System." In addition to acting, Lina also worked on a handful of films as a writer, director, producer, and assistant editor. In real life Lina was the total radical opposite of her wild and outrageous screen persona: she was a very quiet, soft-spoken, and self-effacing woman who usually dressed in frumpy clothes. Romay died from cancer at age 57 on February 15, 2012 in Malaga, Spain.- Tinì Cansino was born on 23 September 1959 in Volos, Magnisia, Greece. She is an actress, known for Arabella: Black Angel (1989), Nightmare in Venice (1989) and Delizia (1986).
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Italian adult-film star Moana Pozzi was born on April 27, 1961, in Genova, Italy. In 1981 she began her film career, appearing in small uncredited parts in films and on television. Five years later she appeared in the Federico Fellini film Ginger & Fred (1986). It was on the set of this film that she met Ilona Staller, known better by her porn name of "Cicciolina". It was soon afterwards that Pozzi began appearing in hardcore sex films, under her real name. It wasn't long before she became a national sensation in Italy, eventually exceeding even Cicciolina's popularity.
In her 1991 autobiography, "La Filosofia di Moana", she hints at affairs and sexual liaisons with a variety of prominent and important men in Italian society (including, rumor had it, former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi. That same year she and Staller started the Partito dellAmore (Party of Love), a short-lived political organization whose platform called for the legalization of brothels, improved sexual health and "love parks", but the party did poorly in the 1992 elections, and did no better in the next round of elections in 1993.
Unfortunately, she contracted liver cancer and died of the disease in Lyon, France, in 1994, at age 33. It wasn't long, though, before dark rumors began circulating about her death; one was that she actually died of AIDS instead of liver cancer, another being that she had faked her death because she wanted to leave both porn and politics, and yet another claiming that prominent members of the new government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had been among those who had had affairs with Pozzi, and in order to avoid embarrassment they had her quietly "silenced". The fact that no one except her family had actually seen her body added fuel to the rumors.
In 1999 the film Guardami (1999) was released, which was largely based on Pozzi's life. In September of 2005, Italian federal prosecutors announced that they would re-open the investigation of her death, due to the discovery of many errors and inconsistencies in the original official report. The next month a report on Italian television aired that gave the official register of deaths of the cemetery in Lyon where she was buried, revealing that she had indeed died of liver cancer and that her body had been cremated.- Chiara Francini was born on 20 December 1976 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She is an actress, known for Miracle at St. Anna (2008), The Worst Week of My Life (2011) and Men Vs Women (2010).
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Nancy Brilli was born on 10 April 1964 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for Piccoli equivoci (1989), Italia-Germania 4-3 (1990) and Tutti gli uomini di Sara (1992).- Loredana Martinez was born on 20 January 1947 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for Oci ciornie (1987), No, the Case Is Happily Resolved (1973) and The Sex Machine (1975).
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Didi Perego was born on 14 April 1935 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for Kapo (1960), Jusqu'au bout du monde (1963) and La parmigiana (1963). She died on 28 June 1993 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Annabella Incontrera was born on 11 June 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 19 September 2004 in Rome, Italy.
- Laura Trotter was born on 9 June 1950 in Cles, Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. She is an actress, known for Nightmare City (1980), La presidentessa (1977) and Albergo Roma (1996).
- Minnie Minoprio was born on 4 July 1942 in Ware, Hertfordshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Una storia ambigua (1986), Zingara (1969) and Roma bene (1971).
- Edy Angelillo was born on 7 September 1961 in Venice, Veneto, Italy. She is an actress, known for No Spring Chicken (1997), Cindy - Cinderella '80 (1984) and Cugino e cugino (2011).
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Monica Vitti was born on 3 November 1931 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for L'Avventura (1960), Red Desert (1964) and L'Eclisse (1962). She was married to Roberto Russo. She died on 2 February 2022 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Jessica Leri is known for State buoni se potete (1983), Zucchero, miele e peperoncino (1980) and Per vivere meglio, divertitevi con noi (1978).
- Rita Silva is known for The New York Ripper (1982), Nine Guests for a Crime (1977) and Detenute violente (1984).
- Marcella Petrelli is known for The Erotic Dreams of Cleopatra (1985).
- Adriana Giuffrè was born on 9 March 1939. She was an actress, known for Detenute violente (1984), Atlantis Interceptors (1983) and Apocalisse di un terremoto (1982). She died on 14 August 2023 in Tarquinia, Lazio, Italy.
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Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome on September 20, 1934. Her father Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry her mother Romilda Villani, despite the fact that she was the mother of his two children (Sophia and her younger sister Maria Scicolone). Growing up in the slums of Pozzuoli during the second World War without any support from her father, she experienced great sadness in her childhood. Her life took an unexpected turn for the best when, at age 14, she entered into a beauty contest and placed as one of the finalists. It was here that Sophia caught the attention of film producer Carlo Ponti, some 22 years her senior, whom she later married. Perhaps he was the father figure she never experienced as a child. Under his guidance, Sophia was put under contract and appeared as an extra in ten films beginning with Le sei mogli di Barbablù (1950), before working her way up to supporting roles. In these early films, she was credited as "Sofia Lazzaro" because people joked her beauty could raise Lazzarus from the dead.
By her late teens, Sophia was playing lead roles in many Italian features such as La favorita (1952) and Aida (1953). In 1957, she embarked on a successful acting career in the United States, starring in Boy on a Dolphin (1957), Legend of the Lost (1957), and The Pride and the Passion (1957) that year. She had a short-lived but much-publicized fling with co-star Cary Grant, who was nearly 31 years her senior. She was only 22 while he was 53, and she rejected a marriage proposal from him. They were paired together a second time in the family-friendly romantic comedy Houseboat (1958). While under contract to Paramount, Sophia starred in Desire Under the Elms (1958), The Key (1958), The Black Orchid (1958), It Started in Naples (1960), Heller in Pink Tights (1960), A Breath of Scandal (1960), and The Millionairess (1960) before returning to Italy to star in Two Women (1960). The film was a period piece about a woman living in war-torn Italy who is raped while trying to protect her young daughter. Originally cast as the more glamorous child, Sophia fought against type and was re-cast as the mother, displaying a lack of vanity and proving herself as a genuine actress. This performance received international acclaim and was honored with an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Sophia remained a bona fide international movie star throughout the sixties and seventies, making films on both sides of the Atlantic, and starring opposite such leading men as Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, Gregory Peck, and Charlton Heston. Her English-language films included El Cid (1961), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Arabesque (1966), Man of La Mancha (1972), and The Cassandra Crossing (1976). She gained wider respect with her Italian films, especially Marriage Italian Style (1964) and A Special Day (1977), both of which co-starred Marcello Mastroianni. During these years she received a second Oscar nomination and won five Golden Globe Awards.
From the eighties onward, Sophia's appearances on the big screen came few and far between. She preferred to spend the majority of her time raising sons Carlo Ponti Jr. (b. 1968) and Edoardo Ponti (b. 1973). Her only acting credits during the decade were five television films, beginning with Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980), a biopic in which she portrayed herself and her mother. She ventured into other areas of business and became the first actress to launch her own fragrance and design of eyewear. In 1982 she voluntarily spent nineteen days in jail for tax evasion.
In 1991 Sophia received an Honorary Academy Award for her body of work, and was declared "one of world cinema's greatest treasures." That same year, she experienced a terrible loss when her mother died of cancer. Her return to mainstream films in Ready to Wear (1994) was well-received, although the film as a whole was not. She followed this up with her biggest U.S. hit in years, the comedy Grumpier Old Men (1995), in which she played a sexy divorcée who seduces Walter Matthau. Over the next decade Sophia had plum roles in a few independent films like Soleil (1997), Between Strangers (2002) (directed by Edoardo), and Lives of the Saints (2004). Still beautiful at 72, she posed scantily-clad for the 2007 Pirelli Calendar. Sadly, that same year she mourned the death of her 94-year-old spouse, Carlo Ponti. In 2009, after far too much time away from film, she appeared in the musical Nine (2009) opposite Daniel Day-Lewis. These days Sophia is based in Switzerland but frequently travels to the states to spend time with her sons and their families (Eduardo is married to actress Sasha Alexander). Sophia Loren remains one of the most beloved and recognizable figures in the international film world.- Antonella Antinori is known for Play Motel (1979) and Quello strano desiderio (1980).
- Cristina Minutelli is known for Casa privata per le SS (1977) and Atti impuri all'italiana (1976).
- Elisa Mainardi was born on 27 July 1930 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress. She died on 8 May 2016 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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Franca Gonella was born on 1 March 1952 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress and producer, known for Verginità (1974), Babanin Evlatlari (1977) and Diabolicamente... Letizia (1975).- Actress
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Graziella Polesinanti was born on 12 March 1943 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for Il maresciallo Rocca (1996), Scugnizzi (1989) and Lo scandalo della banca romana (1977).- Sandra Julien was born on 14 February 1950 in Toulon, France. She is an actress, known for The Shiver of the Vampires (1971), Au théâtre ce soir (1966) and Dany la ravageuse (1972).
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Mónica Randall was born on 18 November 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).- Actress
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Maria Rohm was one of the rare gems in the movie business - acting, and in particular theatre and movies was truly her life's work. She started acting on-stage at the famous Vienna Burgtheatre as a child actor from ages 4 through 13. Having performed in such classics as William Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream", Lev Tolstoy's autobiography "Und das Licht scheint in der Finsternis", Ferdinand Raimund's "Der Bauer als Millionär" etc. She worked with many of the great German stage actors such as Attila Hörbiger, Paula Wessely, Curd Jürgens, Annemarie Düringer, Heinrich Schweiger, Judith Holzmeister to name a few.
The young Ms. Rohm continued her theatrical work until she auditioned for Harry Alan Towers at age 18, it was then that her movie career took off. Towers, smitten with the blonde beauty cast her as a lead in a number of his feature films - Maria's extraordinary acting abilities took over from there. Both stunning and immensely talented she soon became highly sought after as a leading lady all across Europe. Her movie roles took her to more than a dozen countries where she shared the screen with such greats as Frankie Avalon, Klaus Kinski, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price and Jack Palance .
Extensive traveling eventually took it's toll, and having 30 on-camera movie credits to her name combined with 4 decades experience as an actress, Rohm made the decision to join Towers, her now husband as a producer. Her considerable experience in the industry revealed an astute business woman, and Mr. & Mrs. Towers became power a couple in the independent feature market. The duo worked happily together until Harry Tower's death July 31st, 2009.
The last 10 years or her life, Ms. Rohm although largely retired from the business, continued to consult periodically in the industry and share her expertise of the business that she fondly remembers as bringing her together with the love of her life.- 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. She made her film debut at age sixteen as a dancer. During the following years, the fragile beauty appeared in numerous comedies, dramas, B-movies, and horror films, mostly in Spain (over thirty films altogether from 1960 to 1970). Her biggest break came from legendary director Jess Franco, who cast Soledad in such cult classics as Count Dracula and Vampyros Lesbos. Soledad is generally regarded as Franco's greatest discovery. On August 18, 1970 Soledad was in a car accident on a highway in Portugal. She died hours later, survived by her husband (a former race-car driver) and young son. Shortly before this tragic accident, a German film producer had offered her a contract which would have made her a great star. Soledad was destined to become a legend. Not until the years after her death has she become a cult starlet with fans all over the world now discovering the beautiful, doomed actress.
- Carla Romanelli was born on 23 August 1949 in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Fourth Wall (1969), Una cavalla tutta nuda (1972) and Fenomenal and the Treasure of Tutankamen (1968).
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Gorgeous and voluptuous brunette beauty Britt Christina Marinette Lindberg was born on December 6, 1950, in Gothenburg, Sweden, to a working-class family, with one sister and two brothers.
When she was a teenager, she lived in the isle of Hisingen, At high-school, she studied Latin and planned on being an archaeologist. Before graduation, with her lustrous long brown hair, doe eyes, sweetly comely face and full, ripe, well-endowed figure, Christina quickly became a popular pin-up girl. She did some modeling in bathing suits for several newspapers, and in 1970 she started doing nude pictorials in men's magazines such as "FIB-Aktuellt", "Penthouse" (Penthouse Pet of the Month in the June 1970 issue), "Playboy", "Lui", Oui" and "Mayfair." Also in 1970, she recorded a two-sided 45 rpm vinyl single with her face on the cover, for the FIB-Aktuellt label.
Christina's film debut was a starring role as the naive, virginal, yet enticing, 16-year-old Inga in Maid in Sweden (1971). She went on to both minor and major roles as tantalizing sexpots in racy exploitation fare as Rötmånad (1970), The Depraved (1971), Campus Swingers (1972), The Swinging Co-eds (1972), Secrets of Sweet Sixteen (1973) and Anita (1973).
Christina Lindberg is especially memorable as British spy and gambler Christina, in the Japanese crime pink movie Sex & Fury (1973). She appeared in two soft-core flicks for acclaimed adult picture writer-director Joseph W. Sarno: the lackluster Swedish Wildcats (1972) and the gloriously bizarre Young Playthings (1972). Her most enduring cult cinema fame stems from her outstanding performance as Frigga, a much abused and traumatized one-eyed mute junkie prostitute, who exacts a harsh retribution on her tormentors in the brutal and controversial revenge opus Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973).
In the early 1970s, she was the onetime girlfriend of Swedish king King Carl XVI Gustaf.
Her acting career began to falter in the mid 1970s because of her refusal to do hardcore sex scenes. Christina studied journalism in the late 1970s and subsequently wrote articles for various men's magazines. Lindberg returned to movies in 2000, in a cameo of her Frigga character in the over-the-top parody Sex, Lies and Video Violence (2000).
Christina is an animal rights activist, an environmentalist, and a vegetarian. She owns two Siamese cats and is a keen mushroom picker, and shared her knowledge in 1993 in a a 20-minute short, "Christina's Mushroom School".
Christina Lindberg lives in Stockholm, Sweden. She's the owner and editor-in-chief of the aviation magazine "Flygrevyn," which she took over following her fiancee Bo Sehlberg's death in 2004.- Attractive and seductive looking blonde Italian actress who is well known to fans of 1980's European horror cinema as the leading lady in two key cult films of the period. She co-starred in the ultra-bloody Zombie Holocaust (1980) aka "Dr Butcher MD", aka "Zombi 3" directed by Marino Girolami. Two years later she again co-starred in the serial killer tale The New York Ripper (1982) aka "The New York Ripper" directed by Italian gore master Lucio Fulci.
Alexandra was married to highly awarded Italian cinematographer Tonino Delli Colli, and she appeared in approximately eleven feature films in total. - Teresa Ann Savoy was born on 18 July 1955 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Caligula (1979), Madam Kitty (1976) and Bambina (1974). She died on 9 January 2017 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
- Ines Pellegrini is born in Massaua, Eritrea from Italian father and Eritrean mother. At the age of eight, she moved from Massaua to Asmara where she lived for ten years before moving to Rome, Italy. Then she began to work in minor movie roles until she met the Italian writer and director Pier Paolo Pasolini who, deeply moved by her uncommon beauty and attitude, offered her the major role of the slave Zumurrud in his movie "Il Fiore delle Mille e una notte" ("Arabian Nights"), 1974. She worked with Pasolini again in 1975, playing the role of the maid in "Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma" ("Salò Or The 120 Days Of Sodom"). Ines Pellegrini career went on between acting and modeling until 1985, when she left the movie industry.
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Antonia Santilli was born on 8 August 1949 in Spigno Saturnia, Latina, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Boss (1973), Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974) and Buona parte di Paolina (1973).- Actress
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Beryl Cunningham was born on 8 August 1946 in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She was an actress, known for Tarzana, the Wild Woman (1969), The Island of the Fishmen (1979) and The Black Decameron (1972). She died on 11 December 2020 in Borbona, Province of Rieti, Italy.- Barbara De Rossi was born on 9 August 1960 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for La piovra (1984), Mamma Ebe (1985) and Hearts and Armour (1983). She has been married to Simone Fratini since 11 December 2023. She was previously married to Branko Tesanovic and Andrea Busiri Vici.
- Silvia Monti was born on 23 January 1946 in Bassano del Grappa, Veneto, Italy. She is an actress, known for Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), Blackie the Pirate (1971) and The Fifth Cord (1971). She has been married to Carlo de Benedetti since 10 July 1997. She was previously married to Luigi Donà dalle Rose.
- Spanish-born actress who began working in films as a child in the 1960s, graduating to adult heroine roles in mostly horror films. Galbo quit the movie business in the 1980s and now tours the world as a flamenco dancer.
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Isabella Fogliazza in art Isabella Ferrari, was born in Ponte Dell'Olio. She debut in 1982 with the film "Sapore di Mare" directed by Carlo Vanzina and in 1983 in "Sapore di Mare 2", so her career took off and started participate in many cult comedies of the 80s such as: "Appuntamento a Liverpool" , "Chewingum" , "Il Ragazzo del Poni Express". In 1989 she starred in the film "Willi Signori e Vengo da lontano" directed by Francesco Nuti, in 1995 she worked on "Cronaca di un amore violato" directed by Giacomo Battiato, inspire by the book by Anna Maria Pellegrino "Diario di uno stupratore". The next year she works with Sergio Castellitto in "Hotel di Paura". In 1997 she was engaged by a French production in Alexandre Arcady's film "K" An important time in her artistic career is represented by "Romanzo di un Giovane Povero" with Alberto Sordi and directed by Ettore Scola, she won the Coppa Volpi Award (Venice International Film Festival) for best supporting actress. In 1998 she was in an Italian-French Production "Dolce far Niente", a comedy set in the 1800s followed by "Vajont" and "La lingua del Santo " directed by Carlo Mazzacurati. Throughout the years she participated as a protagonist in the television series "Distretto di Polizia", where she plays the police commissioner Giovanna Scalise, directed by her husband Renato De Maria and Antonello Grimaldi and then the mini-series "Liberi di Giocare", beside Pierfrancesco Favino. In 2005 she is the protagonist in the movie "Amatemi" by Renato de Maria and "Arrivederci Amore ciao" by Michele Soavi. She starred in the film "Vite Sospese" by Marco Turco, "Il Seme della Discordia" by Pappi Corsicato, "Saturno Contro" and "Un giorno Perfetto" by Ferzan Ozpetek (where she won the Pasinetti Award for the best actress), "Due partite" by Enzo Monteleone and then in the film "Caos Calmo" by Antonello Grimaldi. In 2006 she is in theaters with "Due Partite" by Cristina Comencini and "Il Catalogo" with Ennio Fantastichini, by Jean Claude Carriere and directed by Valerio Binasco. She participated in the show "Anestesia Totale" with Marco Travaglio and always with the latter he goes on stage in Italian theaters with "È Stato la Mafia". She had a cameo in the movie "To Rome with Love" by Woody Allen. In 2010 she returns to television with the Italian-German miniseries "Nel Bianco" based on the novel by Ken Follett and in the tv-film "Storia di Laura" by Andrea Porporati. In 2013 she is directed by Paolo Sorrentino in the Oscar-winning film "The Great Beauty". She also appears in Antonio Morabito's movie "Il Venditore di Medicine" and in the following year is one of the protagonists in Renato de Maria's movie "La Vita Oscena", presented at the International Venice Film Festival in the Horizons category. In 2017 she works again with Ferzan Ozpetek in "Napoli Velata", and then appears in "In Viaggio con Adele" by Alessandro Capitani and "Euphoria" by Valeria Golino. From 2018-2020 she is in the Netflix series "Baby" directed by Andrea De Sica, Anna Negri and Letizia Lamartire. She also appears in "Sotto I l Sole di Riccione" by Antonio Usbergo and Niccolò Celaia. In 2022 she appears in "La Mia Ombra è Tua" by Eugenio Cappuccio, "Sotto I l Sole di Amalfi" by Martina Pastori and Renato de Maria's movie "Rapiniamo I l Duce". In 2023 she worked on the tv series "Alfonso" by Eros Puglielli- Actress
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Monica Anna Maria Bellucci was born on September 30, 1964 in the Italian village of Città di Castello, Umbria, the only child of Brunella Briganti and Pasquale Bellucci. She originally pursued a career in the legal profession. While attending the University of Perugia, she modeled on the side to earn money for school, and this led to her modeling career. In 1988, she moved to one of Europe's fashion centers, Milan, and joined Elite Model Management. Although enjoying great success as a model, she made her acting debut on television in 1990, and her American film debut in Bram Stoker's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). Her role in the French thriller The Apartment (1996), shot her to stardom as she won the French equivalent of an Oscar nomination. Other credits include Malena (2000), Under Suspicion (2000) and Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001).- Stefania Careddu was born on 13 January 1943 in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Troppo per vivere... poco per morire (1967), Any Gun Can Play (1967) and The Legacy of Caine (1971).
- Loredana Mongardini is known for Dagli archivi della polizia criminale (1973), Ultimo tango a Zagarol (1973) and Women in Cell Block 7 (1973).
- Eleonora Vivaldi is known for The Hideout (1971), The Angels from 2000 (1969) and Plot of Fear (1976).
- Bruna Beani was born on 4 March 1937 in Pavia, Italy. She is an actress.
- Marzia Damon is known for Sex of the Witch (1973).
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Olivia Pascal was born on 26 May 1957 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany. She is an actress and publicist, known for The Fruit Is Ripe (1977), Sunshine Reggae auf Ibiza (1983) and The Joy of Flying (1977). She has been married to Peter Kanitz since 2009.- Actress
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Corinne Brodbeck is known for The Joy of Flying (1977), Le Marginal (1983) and The Fruit Is Ripe (1977).- Actress
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Gisela Hahn was born on 13 May 1943 in Briesen, Sudetenland, Germany. She is an actress and production manager, known for The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990), Zambo, King of the Jungle (1972) and Kommissar X jagt die roten Tiger (1971).- Patrizia Viotti was born on 25 June 1950. She was an actress, known for Amuck! (1972), La morte scende leggera (1972) and Charlys Nichten (1974). She died on 24 August 1994 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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Brunette bombshell and second-string goddess Jamaican actress Martine Beswick(e) was born on September 26, 1941, to a British father and Portuguese/Jamaican mother in Port Antonio, Jamaica. Some brief modeling and pageant entering came to be before seeking a career in films. She allegedly once won a "Miss Autoville" contest and won a car only to sell it in order to move to and study acting in London.
While finding roles on such British TV series as "Secret Agent," "Love Story" and "Court Martial," a minor break occurred for Martine in the James Bond "007" film series. Director Terence Young cast her twice -- as the gypsy girl Zora in From Russia with Love (1963) and then as the doomed spy Paula in Thunderball (1965). After playing in the well-tanned minority ranks for years, Martine finally got noticed after cat-fighting with Raquel Welch in the cult prehistoric saga One Million Years B.C. (1966), which also starred handsome caveman John Richardson. She also starred in her own back-in-time Neanderthal low-budget Prehistoric Women (1967).
Transporting herself to Hollywood in the late 1960's, Martine guested on such shows as "It Takes a Thief," "Mannix," "The Name of the Game" and "Longstreet." She then made an infamous mark as the distaff evil incarnate in the Hammer Studio horror cult hit Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971). Other films during that time usually had her in various stages of sexy undress, including Ultimo tango a Zagarol (1973), The Kiss of Death (1974) and Seizure (1974).
She later focused on TV with such mini-movie entries as Crime Club (1975), Strange New World (1975), Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978), My Husband Is Missing (1978) and The Tenth Month (1979), plus the mini-series Aspen (1977) and episodes of "The Six Million Dollar Man," "Baretta," "Quincy," "The Fall Guy," "Fantasy Island," "Hart to Hart," "Buffalo Bill" and "Sledge Hammer." In the mid-1980's, Martine also found back-to-back daytime work on the soap operas Days of Our Lives (1965) and Santa Barbara (1984).
On film, she would quicken pulses as Xaviera Hollander as The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980), but not return until the early 1990's with the horror films Evil Spirits (1991) and Trancers II (1991), the comedy Life on the Edge (1992) and the drama Wide Sargasso Sea (1993). After filming Night of the Scarecrow (1995), Martine retired from films.
Since then, she has mainly participated in film documentaries, providing commentary and relating her experiences on the many films in which she has appeared. She owned a removals business in London and is semiretired except for guest appearances at James Bond conventions. She did, however, more recently return (after 25 years) to star with fellow Hammer actors Caroline Munro and Veronica Carlson in a horror "tribute" to Hammer entitled House of the Gorgon (2019).- Nicoletta Elmi was a strikingly pretty, charming and gifted redhead child actress who graced a handful of Italian horror pictures in the early to mid 70's with her exceptionally ethereal and mesmerizing presence. Born on February 13, 1964 in Rome, Italy, Elmi began modeling and acting in TV commercials at age four. She made her film debut in "The Sisters." Her favorite aunt was popular TV presenter Maria Giovanna Elmi. Elmi's initial cinematic ventures were comedies; she made her first horror movie at age six. Elmi gave an excellent and enchanting performance as George Lazenby's sweet daughter who gets brutally murdered in the strong and gripping giallo "Who Saw Her Die?". Elmi was often cast as evil and obnoxious little brats in such Italian fright features as Mario Bava's highly influential proto-slasher body count landmark "Bay of Blood," "Flesh for Frankenstein," "The Cursed Medallion," and Dario Argento's masterful "Deep Red." A cute kid, Elmi grew up to become a stunningly beautiful young woman. Elmi was especially lovely and memorable as the movie theater usherette in Lamberto Bava's outrageously gory "Demons." In addition to her film credits, Elmi also did a bunch of TV commercials and popped up in several television shows. Alas, Nicoletta Elmi quit acting in the late 80's to become a doctor.
- Elizabeth Turner is known for The Psychic (1977).