Mainstream actresses who did explicit nudity and/or explicit sex scenes on screen

by Virtuosya | created - 07 Jan 2023 | updated - 3 days ago | Public

Non-exhaustive. This list is a work in progress. It is being updated in a chronological order. Currently reviewing the 1990's.

Last added :

Marina Maximova #163 (1st April 2024)
Caroline Sabin #164 (7th April 2024)
Hara Angelousi #3 (10th April 2024)
Soledad Marceignac #135 (12th April 2024)
Miranda Mariaux #136 (12th April 2024)
Catherine Guittoneau #165 (16th April 2024)
Marne Lucas #166 (27th April 2024)

Last updated:

Adrienne Larussa #7 (7th April 2024)
Maria Rohm #6 (23rd April 2024)
Anna Gaël #10 (25th April 2024)

Exploring the boundaries of arts should be encouraged, be it in painting, sculpting, photography, dance or cinema, for the sake of the freedom of expression and because it is the only way arts can evolve but it can be a risky undertaking. Venturing outside of what is viewed as acceptable as a general consensus can be an exciting experience but it generally means being subjected to some form of censorship and it can be disturbing for the spectators and the artists themselves if not done with respect and trust.

This list is meant as an eye-opener as to what went on in background during the making of the movies which dared to push the boundaries in their time when it comes to nudity and sexuality in the cinema and television industry. Surely, exposing their intimate parts and even sometimes performing sexual acts with complete strangers in front of an entire film crew, something that will be watched by millions afterwards, is probably not what actresses have in mind when they take acting classes.

So why do they do it? Each circumstance is unique but it very often coincides with a young actress who is at the start of her career. This is when an actress is at her most vulnerable and when she can be more easily convinced that this is a necessary step towards stardom. It is the viewer's responsibility to be aware of the personal cost behind an actress' career, especially when the information is public knowledge. It is enlightening to find out what were the circumstances in which actresses allowed themselves to be put in such vulnerable situations and how it helped or damaged their careers and private lives.

Was is consented? Was it under pressure? Was it to kickstart a career, to rekindle a career on the decline, or because the role was compelling and powerful? Were the nude scenes gratuitous and voyeuristic or supporting the storyline and the character development? Was it a liberating and enjoyable experience for the actress or was it hell? Did she quit the industry or did she become famous?

It can be a spectacular career boost and place an unknown actress on Hollywood's most talked about list in a matter of days, which is what "Basic Instinct" did for Sharon Stone. But for others, it had dire consequences. The saddest example of all probably being Karin Schubert who went from the limelight of big movie productions and the promise of stardom to the darkest limbos of the porn industry, which led her to a life of misery, loneliness, mental breakdown and eventually to her death by suicide.

This list is humbly attempting to bring some answers and to show actresses who go to such extremes under a different light. If anything, it puts an emphasis on their degree of resilience, on their incredible determination and on how much they are ready to sacrifice to reach their dream or simply to make a living. What is clear is that this kind of risk-taking can make or break an actress. Which brings us back to the respect and admiration they deserve, not only for their beautiful plastic and their acting skills but also for their exceptional courage. This list could easily be renamed "the actresses who had the guts to do it".

They clearly paved the way for the newer generations of actresses who now enjoy more freedom and more respect than their elders did before them, even if there is still a lot of room for progress in that area.

1. Sisse Reingaard

Actress | Der var engang

Sisse Reingaard was born on September 23, 1946 in Denmark. She is an actress, known for Der var engang (1966), Huset på Christianshavn (1970) and Den gale dansker (1969). She was previously married to Claus Loof.

(Denmark)

Explicit sex in "Gift" (1966)

She was 20 at the time of filming.

There had to be a first time. It came from Scandinavia. Sisse Reingaard originally wanted to be a ceramicist but she started acting in Stig Lommer revues in the theater in the mid-1960s.

She appeared in 28 films between 1965 and 1980 and in television series. Among the films in which she played lead roles, the most well-knowns are "Stine og drengene" also known as "Stine and the boys" (1969), a movie about hectic relationships between teenagers, and "Pigen fra Egborg" also known as "The Egborg Girl" (1969), a light-hearted comedy in which she plays the beautiful and candid daughter of a caretaker. In 1970, she played in "Skal vi leke gjemsel?" also known as "Let's Play Hide and Seek", a comedy depicting holidays at a Norwegian summer boarding house involving nude sunbathing and skinny dipping.

She played a young aspiring actress in a theatre company in "Nu går den på Dagmar" also known as "Dagmar Is Where It's at" (1972), based on a play by Leif Petersen, a role involving full frontal nudity. In 1980, she appeared in an episode of "Matador", the most successful TV series in Denmark ever. The first run was viewed by at least half the population. The first rerun in 1985 was an even bigger success, the final episode recorded an estimated audience of more than two thirds of the Danish population. In Danish, the title "Matador" refers to an influential businessman. It is also the Danish name of the board game "Monopoly".

Sisse Reingaard was married to cinematographer Claus Loof. Her sister Elsebeth Reingaard is a model and actress .

2. Lena Nyman

Actress | Ronja Rövardotter

Lena Nyman was born on May 23, 1944 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was an actress and writer, known for Ronia: The Robber's Daughter (1984), I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) and Autumn Sonata (1978). She was married to Jan Lundström. She died on February 4, 2011 in Stockholm, Sweden.

(Sweden)

Explicit sex in "Jag är nyfiken - En film i gult" also know as "I Am Curious (Yellow)" (1967)

She was 23 at the time of filming.

Lena Nyman was a child actress. She had her first roles in 1955 at age 11. Her career breakthrough came in 1967 with "I Am Curious (Yellow)" and its sequel "I Am Curious (Blue)" the following year. She won the award for Best Actress in a Lead Role for her performance in "I Am Curious (Yellow)" at the 1967/1968 Guldbagge Award, the official award ceremony for the Swedish film industry.

"I Am Curious (Yellow)" is acknowledged to be the first mainstream film to openly show a male full frontal. American obscenity laws were tested by this Swedish film. After the 1969 ruling by the Supreme Court that the film was not obscene because of its educational context, the late 1960s and early 1970s saw a number of films where a doctor dressed in a white coat would give an introduction to the graphic content that followed, like the Swedish movie-slash-documentary "Ur kärlekens språk" also known as "Language of Love" (1969).

Lena Nyman was also a stage actress. She participated in many of the films and stage productions of Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson. Nyman co-starred with Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann in Ingmar Bergman's "Autumn Sonata" (1978).

In 2004, Nyman received the royal medal Litteris et Artibus, a Swedish royal distinction awarded to people who have made important contributions to culture.

3. Hara Angelousi

Actress | Dafnis kai Hloi: Oi mikroi erastai

Hara Angelousi is known for Daphnis and Chloe: The Young Lovers (1969), The Death of Alexandros (1966) and O erotas tou Odyssea (1984).

(Greece)

Explicit nudity in "To prosopo tis Medousasl" also known as "Vortex, The Face of Medusa" (1967)

Hara Angelousi is a Greek actress. She made her screen debut in 1966 in Dimitris Kollatos' drama "O thanatos tou Alexandrou" also known as "The Death of Alexandros".

In what was only her second acting experience, she played the lead role in Nikos Koundouros' feature film "Vortex, The Face of Medusa" (1967), a Greek-British drama featuring a beautiful man-eating woman on a remote Greek island, eating stranded men. It was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.

She was also chosen to play the lead female role by Orestis Laskos in the romantic drama "Dafnis kai Hloi: Oi mikroi erastai" also known as "Daphnis and Chloe: The Young Lovers" (1969).

4. Viva

Actress | Lions Love

Viva was born Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann in Syracuse, New York, to Mary Alice (McNicholas) and Wilfred Ernest Hoffmann, a well-to-do lawyer. She is the first child of a devout Catholic family, and is of German, Irish, English, and one eighth Italian, ancestry. Her parents had eight more children. ...

(USA)

Explicit nudity in "Lonesome Cowboys" (1968)
Explicit sex in "Blue Movie" (1969)

She was respectively 30 and 31 at the time of filming.

Viva Auder's parents were strict catholic devots. She considered becoming a nun. Her father was a prosperous attorney. She started as a supermodel and painter before becoming an actress.

Viva approached Andy Warhol about being in one of his films, on the suggestion of her friend, actress Abigail Rosen McGrath. Warhol agreed but only on the condition that Viva takes off her blouse for the role. Viva responded by adhering bandaids to her breasts and visiting Warhol at The Factory, Andy Warhol's studio in New York City and the hip hangout spot for artists, musicians and celebrities alike. She appeared in several of Warhol's films and was a frequent guest at the Factory.

"Lonesome Cowboys" won Best Film at the San Francisco Film Festival in November 1968. It was originally conceived as a western version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. By far, Viva's most controversial role was in "Blue Movie" in 1969, a film that helped inaugurate the "porno chic" phenomenon in modern American culture. The film consists of improvised dialogue between Viva and Louis Waldon about a multitude of topics, conversations interrupted by the main event of the film, the scene in which Viva and Waldon perform unsimulated intercourse in front of the camera. Andy Warhol said, "I'd always wanted to do a movie that was pure fucking, nothing else". The New York Criminal Court ruled that "Blue Movie" was obscene. It was seized by the police and the staff of the New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre were arrested for possession of obscene materials.

After she began making films for other directors she also began writing. Her first book, "Superstar", was an insider's look at the Factory scene, a partly fictional autobiographical account of her time there. She also wrote for various publications, including The Village Voice and New York Woman. With former husband Michel Auder, Viva made and kept film diaries which included the birth of her first daughter. She was briefly engaged to the actor Anthony Herrera. They had a daughter, actress Gaby Hoffmann.

5. Gina Morett

Actress | Por la libre

Gina Morett was born on April 14, 1949 in Mexico city, Mexico. She is an actress, known for Por la libre (2000), Ángel de fuego (1992) and Noticias lejanas (2005).

(Mexico)

Explicit nudity in "La horripilante bestia humana" also know as "Night of the Bloody Apes" (1969).

She was 20 at the time of filming.

Gina Morett is a Mexican film, theater and television actress and singer. In the 1960s she launched herself as a singer with classics such as "Mi Novio Se Quiere Casar" and "Enamorada de Ti".

Gina Morret's had her first role and nude scene in horror flick "Night of the Bloody Apes" (1969). Its video cover featured a bloody surgeon's hands holding a scalpel with the caption "Warning: this film contains scenes of extreme and explicit violence." It contains the footage of an actual human heart transplant operation. When it was released in the United States, the distributor added more scenes of gore. It is to be noted that it was lead actress Norma Lazareno's first nude scenes and the only time she shows her breasts onscreen. She said years later that she agreed to film the nudity in order to be cast in a major role. She was nervous enough when it came time to strip, but to make matters worse, suddenly there were a lot more male crew on set than normal watching her. She ended up spending half a day naked on set surrounded by men. The director also talked her into filming both scenes with full frontal nudity without using a towel to cover herself so her pubic hair was showing. She didn't want to, but agreed anyway because she felt she had no choice. Later she learned from someone else that there was no way they would use the full frontal shots because censors wouldn't allow it. That meant the director probably just wanted to see her walking around stark naked for his own enjoyment. She always worried that the footage would show up one day but it never did. Gina Morett's (accidental) nudity remained however.

Gina Morett is well remembered for her character "Gina" in the classic movie "My second mother" (1989). She won the award for Best Actress in a Minor Role for her performance in "Ángel de fuego" (1992) at the 1993 Ariel Award, the award ceremony for the Mexican film industry. She won the award for Best Actress in a Minor Role for her performance in "Por la libre" (2000) at the 2001 Ariel Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Noticias lejanas" (2005) at the 2006 Ariel Award.

6. Maria Rohm

Actress | Ein Unbekannter rechnet ab

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 "...

(Austria)

Explicit sex in "Der heiße Tod" also know as "99 Women" (1969)

She was 24 at the time of filming.

Maria Rohm was an Austrian actress and producer. She was born in Vienna. She began her career as a child actress. She was only 4-years old when she held her first role on the stage of the famous Viennese Burgtheatre. She pursued her theatrical work until the age of 18 when she auditioned for British film producer, Harry Alan Towers, whom she would later marry. Rohm remained married to Towers from 1964 until his death in 2009. She received a classical training before moving to cinema.

She became famous for appearing in a number of films directed by Jesús Franco in the late 60's. She is often cast to play the role of the victim in his movies, typically violent and erotically charged, including "99 Women" (1969), which was censored on release, "Die sieben Männer der Sumuru" also known as "The Girl from Rio" (1969), a sequel to "The Million Eyes of Sumuru" (1967), also censored on release, "Paroxismus" also known as "Venus in Furs" (1969) starring James Darren who fell in love with co-star Maria Rohm during the production, "Il Trono di Fuoco" also known as "The Bloody Judge" (1970) opposite Christopher Lee, and "Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht" also known as "Count Dracula" with Christopher Lee, Klaus Kinski and Soledad Miranda. This is the first major role for Soledad Miranda in a Jesus Franco film. This is one of four films released in 1970 in which Christopher Lee played Count Dracula. Christopher Lee was reportedly tired of playing Count Dracula, and was convinced to join the cast only after being promised that this movie would be a faithful adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula novel. This movie, however, ultimately made numerous significant changes to the story. Christopher Lee rates his performance in the film, as the best he gave as Dracula. On a documentary included on the DVD, director Jesús Franco claims that Klaus Kinski ate real flies instead of fake ones.

In the mid-70's, Maria Rohm retired from acting and eventually became a full-time producer.

Rohm died in Toronto in June 2018 at the age of 72. She had been hospitalized for paralysis in the legs after collapsing to the ground. The tests led to the discovery of acute leukemia and a tumor pressing against her spine, which caused the paralysis, although Rohm remained convinced that she was suffering from sciatica. Her condition rapidly deteriorated and she died a few days after entering the hospital.

7. Adrienne Larussa

Actress | The Man Who Fell to Earth

Adrienne Larussa was born on May 15, 1948 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Centennial (1978) and The Conspiracy of Torture (1969). She has been married to Robert French since December 31, 1987. She was previously married to Steven Seagal...

(USA)

Explicit nudity in "Beatrice Cenci" also known as "The Conspiracy of Torture" (1969)
Explicit sex in "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (1976)

She was respectively 21 and 27 at the time of filming.

Adrienne Larussa is an American actress. She was born in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City, where a childhood friend was actor Henry Winkler. She graduated from Cold Spring Harbor High School on Long Island.

She made her film debut in Italy at age 19 with a supporting role in Luciano Salce's comedy "La Pecora Nera" also known as "The Black Sheep" (1968), a political satire about the corruption in the Italian government, opposite Vittorio Gassman and Lisa Gastoni. Immediately, her intensity and her unparalleled beauty made an impact in the Italian cinema industry. She obtained her first lead role the following year in Rossano Brazzi's giallo thriller "Salvare La Faccia" also known as "Psychout for Murder" (1969), alongside Rossano Brazzi, Paola Pitagora and Nino Castelnuovo.

That same year, Adrienne was chosen by Lucio Fulci to star in "Beatrice Cenci", opposite Tomas Milian, a movie based on a real story which remains, to this day, one of the most shameful scandals in Italy's History. The movie was censored on release. Not so much for the graphic nude scenes as for the open criticism of the Catholic Church and the Roman nobility. Director Lucio Fulci even received death threats after the release of the movie. An unapologetic Fulci considers this movie to be his best film.

Adrienne Larussa took a break from acting. It coincided with her return on the American continent. She reappeared on screen four years later in Larry Kent's romantic comedy "Keep It in the Family" (1973), opposite John Gavin and Patricia Gage. She started doing television work to make a name for herself in Hollywood. She appeared in an episode of the television series "The Streets of San Francisco" starring Karl Malden, Michael Douglas and Richard Hatch, in 1974, in an episode of the television series "The Manhunter", starring Ken Howard, the same year, and in an episode of the television series "McCloud", starring Dennis Weaver, in 1975.

The following year, Adrienne Larussa was cast by British director Nicolas Roeg to play in the sci-fi drama "The Man Who Fell to Earth", based on Walter Tevis's 1963 novel of the same name. It starred David Bowie, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, and Rip Torn. It is considered an important work of science fiction and one of the best films in Roeg's career. A kind of an oddball, this movie retains a cult following for its use of surreal imagery and Bowie's first starring film role. Roeg originally considered casting author Michael Crichton and actor Peter O'Toole for the lead role. Director Nicolas Roeg cast David Bowie after seeing Bowie in the 1975 documentary "Cracked Actor". David Bowie said in the 12th May 1983 edition of Rolling Stone Magazine: "I'm so pleased I made that movie. I just threw my real self into that movie as I was at that time. It was a pretty natural performance. A good exhibition of somebody literally falling apart in front of you. I was totally insecure with about 10 grams of cocaine a day in me. I was stoned out of my mind from beginning to end". David Bowie was unable to work on the movie for two days because he had drunk some "bad milk", allegedly. Bowie's co-star Candy Clark was romantically involved with director Nicolas Roeg at the time. She played Bowie's role in one scene while he was ill and unavailable to work, wearing a large black hat strategically pulled low to hide her face. Candy Clark remembered things differently: "David vowed to Nic, 'No drug use'," said Clark and he was a man of his word, "clear as a bell, focused, friendly and professional and leading the team. You can see it clearly because of Tony Richmond's brilliant cinematography. Look at David! His skin is luminescent. He's gorgeous, angelic, heavenly. He was absolutely perfect as the man from another planet." Between takes and when not filming, David Bowie composed songs, sketched drawings, wrote short stories, planned an autobiography to be titled "The Return of the Thin White Duke", filmed on a 16mm newsreel camera that director Nicolas Roeg had given him, and read books, including a biography of silent film comedian Buster Keaton. This is the only film that Bowie would go out of his way to promote. A highly edited version was broadcast for its first UK TV screening on BBC2 in 1981, due to the sex scenes. The British Board of Film Censors passed the film uncut for adult UK audiences with an X rating. Asked about her sex scene, Candy Clark said, "I had never done a nude scene before, I'd never done any nude modeling. I had never even let a boyfriend take a nude picture of me. And yet here I was nude, with David Bowie, in front of the cameras and a lot of strange men. I think David was as nervous as I was. Anyway, we sort of spontaneously decided to get it all over with as quickly as possible. We kind of lunged at each other and started these mad, frantic hugs and kisses. Suddenly the director called out. 'Hey. this isn't a wrestling match! Let's calm down and take it slowly.'"

Adrienne Larussa, however, is probably best known for her role in "Days of Our Lives", which she played for 265 episodes from 1975 till 1977. She had a supporting role in the iconic miniseries "Centennial" in 1978. She appeared in an episode of "Charlie's Angels" in 1979 and in six episode of the long-running series "General Hospital" in 1983.

Adrienne Larussa's marriage to actor and martial artist Steven Seagal in 1984 was annulled that same year.

8. Max Couper

Actress | Joe

Max Couper is known for Joe (1970).

Explicit nudity in "Joe" (1970).

Her only acting role in this Oscar nominated thriller. Also Susan Sarandon's film debut and her first full frontal nude scene. According to production manager William Sachs, up-and-comer Susan Sarandon only landed her role because her nose was like Dennis Patrick's who played her father in the film.

9. Anne Kehler

Actress | Stille dage i Clichy

Anne Kehler was born on February 15, 1946. She is an actress, known for Quiet Days in Clichy (1970) and Smil Emil (1969).

Explicit nudity in "Stille dage i Clichy" also know as "Quiet Days in Clichy" (1970)

She was 24 at the time of filming.

"Quiet Days in Clichy" was seized by the US authorities as pornography. The uncut version was released to DVD in 2004.

10. Anna Gaël

Actress | Nana

Anna Gaël was born on September 27, 1943 in Budapest, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Nana (1970), The Love Factor (1969) and Mademoiselle de la Ferté (1965). She was married to Alexander Thynne and Gilbert Pineau. She died on September 17, 2022 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

(Hungary)

Explicit sex in "Nana" also know as "Take Me, Love Me" (1970)

She was 27 at the time of filming.

Anna Gaël was a Hungarian actress and war correspondent born in Budapest. She also had French and British nationalities. She played in Hungarian, German, Italian and French.

Her father was a mathematician and her mother was a poet. She moved to France as a child and began acting when she was fifteen. She made her film debut at the age of 18 in Eriprando Visconti's drama "Una Storia Milanese" (1962), starring Danièle Gaubert, Enrique Thibaut and Romolo Valli.

In 1966, director Jean Leduc chose her for the female lead role in "Via Macau", opposite Roger Hanin and Françoise Prévost. The following year, she played in the crime drama "Hell Is Empty" (1967), with Anthony Steel, Shirley Anne Field, James Robertson Justice, Isa Miranda, Jess Conrad, Martine Carol and Catherine Schell. Production was briefly halted due to Martine Carol's illness. Although filmed in 1963, by the time it was released four years later, leading lady Martine Carol had died.

Anna Gaël then played in Michel Deville's romantic comedy "Benjamin ou Les Mémoires d'un Puceau" also known as "Benjamin, The Diary of an Innocent Young Boy" (1968), alongside Michèle Morgan, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, Pierre Clémenti and Catherine Rouvel. That same year, Anna Gaël starred in Radley Metzger's coming-of-age movie "Therese and Isabelle" (1968), alongside Essy Persson and Barbara Laage.

In 1969, she played in John Guillermin's war movie "The Bridge at Remagen", starring George Segal, Robert Vaughn, and Ben Gazzara. Filming in Czechoslovakia was interrupted by the Soviet invasion of August 1968. Cast and crew were taken to safety in a convoy of 28 taxis, except for Robert Logan, who stayed behind with film gear in order to capture the invasion on film and photo. One of the first films to be shot behind the Iron Curtain. Czechoslovakia was seen by Russia as becoming too liberal in its values, and in an attempt to justify the forthcoming invasion by the USSR, Soviet agents spread the rumor that the American soldiers in the film were real. Most of them, in fact, were played by Czech students. That same year, Anna Gaël starred in Michael Cort's sci-fi exploitation movie "Zeta One" (1969), co-starring James Robertson Justice, Brigitte Skay, Charles Hawtrey, Yutte Stensgaard, Robin Hawdon and Dawn Addams. It was released in the US as "The Love Factor" in 1974. The film was not a commercial success. According to a recent book, James Robertson Justice was very ashamed to be working on a film of this sort. It features Yutte Stensgaard's first nude scenes.

The following year, Anna Gaël starred in Mac Ahlberg's X-rated romantic drama "Nana" (1970), an adaptation of Emile Zola's novel of the same name, telling the story of a promiscuous woman living a lavish lifestyle. A year before, she got married to Alexander Thynn, Viscount Weymouth. In 1971, she appeared in an episode of the iconic television series "The Persuaders!" starring Tony Curtis and Roger Moore. She then starred in Jean-Paul Sassy's "L'obsédée sexuelle (Brutalités amoureuses)" (1972), alongside Blair Brown in her film debut.

In 1973, she starred in "Manalive", a mystery movie directed by Denise Geilfus and Frédéric Geilfus. She played in Edouard Molinaro's horror comedy "Dracula Père et Fils" also known as " Dracula and Son" (1976), alongside Christopher Lee, Catherine Breillat, Gérard Jugnot and Marie-Hélène Breillat. In 1978, she played in Michel Lang's comedy "L'Hôtel de la Plage" also known as "Holiday Hotel", starring Sophie Barjac, Daniel Ceccaldi, Myriam Boyer, Guy Marchand and Anne Parillaud. That same year, she played in Tom Clegg's crime movie "Sweeney 2", starring John Thaw, Dennis Waterman and Denholm Elliott, the second opus of a theatrical spin-off from the popular 1970's police series. Dennis Waterman once commented on the violence in "The Sweeney" (1974) while doing publicity for this movie by saying: "It's certainly no more violent than the real Flying Squad. The stories that we hear from policemen that we know are terrifying. We don't introduce gratuitous violence, but it is, in real-life, a violent job, and to pretend otherwise would be ridiculous." Anna Gaël retired from acting in 1981 and became a war correspondent.

She met Alexander Thynn, Viscount Weymouth, the son of Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath, in Paris in 1959. She later became the Viscount's mistress while she was married to French film director Gilbert Pineau. In 1969, she and the Viscount married. Later that year, she gave birth to a daughter. In 1974, she gave birth to their second child, a son. In 1992, she became a Marchioness when her husband succeeded his father as the Marquess of Bath. In 2013, her son married Emma McQuiston, the daughter of Nigerian businessman Oladipo Jadesimi. She reportedly disapproved of her son's marriage due to her daughter-in-law's African ancestry. She did not attend the wedding. Anna Gaël died in Paris on the 17th September 2022, at the age of 78, ten days before her 79th birthday.

11. Elisabetta Genovese

Actress | Alfredo Alfredo

Elisabetta Genovese is known for Alfredo, Alfredo (1972), Teresa the Thief (1973) and Bawdy Tales (1973).

(Italy)

Explicit sex in "Il Decameron" also know as "The Decameron" (1971).

It was Elisabetta Genovese's career debut. This movie was the first part of Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life". It was followed by "The Canterbury Tales" in 1972 and "Arabian Nights" in 1974. Due to the explicit nature of these movies, they were censored and banned in many countries. She played in all three.

12. 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 ...

(Italy)

Explicit sex in "La Bestia uccide a sangue freddo" also know as "Cold Blooded Beast" (1971)

She was 33 at the time of filming.

Rosalba Neri was one of the contestants of Miss Italia 1956. Eventually pursuing an acting career, she attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Center for Experimental Cinematography) in Rome, graduating in 1959.

She made her film debut in 1958 in the comedy "Mogli pericolose". Her second film role was in Roberto Rossellini's prize-winning drama "Era notte a Roma" (1960). Because of her dark, sultry beauty, Rosalba was often a natural fit to play certain legendary characters. That same year, she appeared in two sword and sandal films set in the Ancient world; "Il sepolcro dei re" also known as "Cleopatra's Daughter" (1960) and Raoul Walsh's biblical movie "Esther and the King" (1960), starring Joan Collins. This movie was made in Italy because of a writers' strike in Hollywood. She was Ramses' intended bride in the Hercules adventure "Il Leone di Tebe" also known as "The Lion of Thebes" (1964). She also played Delilah, the Biblical beauty who was the downfall of the Old Testament hero, Samson, in "I Grandi Condottieri" also known as "The Great Leaders" (1965).

Neri had quite a few roles in spy films, often playing a less than saintly character, like in "Superseven chiama Cairo" also known as "SuperSeven Calling Cairo" (1965), in "Due mafiosi contro Goldginger" also known as "The Amazing Doctor G" (1965) and in "Password: Uccidete agente Gordon" also known as "Password: Kill Agent Gordon" (1966). In 1967, she played her first part for Spanish director Jess Franco in "Lucky, el intrépido" also known as "Lucky, the Inscrutable", a spy film parody done in comic book style. The following year, she appeared in"Niente rose per OSS 117" also known as "OSS 117 Murder for Sale" (1968), starring John Gavin, Margaret Lee, Curd Jürgens, Robert Hossein and George Eastman.

She then followed the trends of European cinema by appearing in several Spaghetti Westerns such as "Johnny Yuma" (1966), "Arizona Colt" (1966), "Long Days of Hate" (1968), "A Long Ride from Hell" (1968), "The Reward's Yours... The Man's Mine" (1969), "Arizona Colt Returns" (1971), "Drummer of Vengeance" (1971) and "Man Called Invincible" (1973).

Rosalba Neri was also in great demand for erotic giallo thrillers, horror and sexploitation movies. She played in "Der heiße Tod" also known as "99 Women" (1969), Jess Franco's first women in prison film, also starring Maria Rohm. The same year, she played in x-rated "Top Sensation" (1969), opposite giallo films star Edwige Fenech. Neri's best-known films are from the horror-giallo genre. Credited as Sara Bay, she played Tania Frankenstein, daughter of the monster's creator, in "La figlia di Frankenstein" also known as "Lady Frankenstein" (1971). Just prior to the start of filming, a letter of credit from a film company was not accepted by the Italian banks. The financiers who gave the last-minute money needed to make the film chose Rosalba Neri as the lead role. She had explicit nude scenes in "La Bestia uccide a sangue freddo" also known as "Cold Blooded Beast" (1971). The movie was censored. There is a rumour that a body double may have been used for her most masturbation sequence. In 1972, she engages in kinky sex games with Barbara Bouchet in "Alla ricerca del piacere" also known as "Amuck!". Edwige Fenech was originally cast as Eleanora, but dropped out of the role upon discovering that she was pregnant with her son and the role went to Rosalba Neri. Bouchet and Neri teamed up again in 1972 in "Casa d'appuntamento" also known as "The French Sex Murders", another movie combining sex with horror, also starring Anita Ekberg.

1972 was probably her most prolific year as she also played the lead role in the erotic horror flick "L'amante del demonio" also known as "Lucifera: Demonlover". Rosalba Neri was really scared shooting this horror movie mixing satanic horror, vampirism, sex and torture. The following year, she starred as Lady Dracula, a vampire who uses Dracula's ring to lure young virgins to her home so she can murder them and bathe in their blood in "Il plenilunio delle vergini" also known as "The Devil's Wedding Night" (1973). She played in several more movies throughout the 70's before retiring in 1976.

13. Jenny Agutter

Actress | Logan's Run

Jenny Agutter was born on December 20, 1952, in Taunton, Somerset, England, UK. The daughter of an army officer, she spent her childhood traveling and living in different countries. Her film career began at the age of 12 in East of Sudan (1964), which was quickly followed by The Magical World of ...

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Explicit Nudity in "Walkabout" (1971). The movie was shot in 1969

She was 16 at the time of filming.

Jenny Agutter's father was an officer in the British Army. She began her career as a child actress at the age of 12 in an adventure movie called "East of Sudan" (1964). As a child, she lived in Singapore, Cyprus and Kuala Lumpur. She was discovered at Elmhurst Ballet School, a boarding school she attended from ages eight to sixteen, when a casting agent was looking for a young English-speaking girl for a film. She did not get that part, but he recommended her to the producers of "East of Sudan".

In 1968, she appeared in "Star!", a musical biography starring Julie Andrews and Richard Crenna. She was 16 when she starred in the critically acclaimed film "Walkabout". It was released in 1971 and nominated at the 1972 Cannes Festival but filming took place in 1969. Jenny Agutter's first nude scene. She said in an interview that when the director first asked her to do the full nude swimming scene, she was reluctant because she was "a very reserved 16-year old girl." But after he explained his reasons for it and that it was a very important part of the story, she agreed to do it because she trusted him. As many as possible of the crew were sent away. She was extremely nervous and felt uncomfortable, but she just went for it, took all her clothes off and kept swimming while they filmed her from several angles. When shooting was done the crew returned, stripped naked, and went for a swim while Agutter watched. When she saw the final film, she agreed it was the right thing to do because it depicted the innocence of her character, however she said that she was shocked when she realized that the Director had shot that scene with such explicitness.

That same year, she won the award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Drama for her performance in "The Snow Goose" (1971) at the 1972 Primetime Emmy Awards. She relocated to the United States in 1974 to pursue a Hollywood career and subsequently appeared in Oscar nominated "Logan's Run" (1976), also starring Farrah Fawcett, Michael York and Peter Ustinov, in "Amy" (1981), in John Landis' horror comedy "An American Werewolf in London" (1981), and in "Child's Play 2" (1990), the horror movie famously featuring the Chucky doll. She continued appearing in high-profile British productions and she won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Equus" (1977) at the 1978 BAFTA Awards. The producers were very glad when the movie received an R rating. They were worried the extensive full frontal nudity would qualify it for an X rating.

At a 1989 arts festival in Bath, Agutter met Johan Tham, a Swedish hotel director whom she married in 1990. They had a son that same year. She returned to Britain in the early 1990s to pursue family life. Her film work in recent years includes the Marvel blockbusters "The Avengers" (2012) and "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" (2014).

Agutter has appeared in numerous theatre productions since her stage debut in 1970, including stints at the National Theatre in 1972–73, the title role in a derivation of "Hedda Gabler" in 1980 and with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982–83, playing in "Arden of Faversham", in "King Lear" and in "Lear".

In 2012, she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her active support to charities.

14. Jagoda Kaloper

Actress | Kuca

Jagoda Kaloper was born on June 19, 1947 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia. She was an actress and set decorator, known for The House (1975), Handcuffs (1970) and WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971). She was married to Radovan Tajder. She died on October 1, 2016 in Vienna, Austria.

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Explicit sex in "W.R. - Misterije organizma" also know as "WR: Mysteries of the Organism" (1971)

She was 23 at the time of filming.

Jagoda Kaloper has had a successfull career as a painter, a graphic designer and as an actress.

She made her screen debut at 17 in the 1965 film "Ključ", without any previous acting experience. Parallel to her studies, she continued acting and appeared in Vatroslav Mimica's avant-garde drama "Ponedjeljak ili utorak" also known as "Monday or Tuesday" (1966). The film won the Best Film and the Best Director Golden Arena awards at the 1966 Pula Film Festival, the Yugoslav national film awards festival. She was freshly graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts when she won the award for Best Actress at the 1970 Pula Film Festival of Yugoslavian Films for her performance in Krsto Papic's drama "Lisice" also known as "Handcuffs" (1970). In 1999, a poll of Croatian film critics found it to be one of the best Croatian films ever made.

However, she was best known internationally for her role in Dušan Makavejev's 1971 controversial film "WR: Mysteries of the Organism", which explores through different settings the relationship between communist politics and sexuality, as well as presenting the controversial life and work of Austrian-American psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. It was banned in Yugoslavia immediately after release. Makavejev was subsequently indicted there on criminal charges of "derision" towards "the state, its agencies, and representatives" after he made intemperate remarks to a West German newspaper about the ban. He was exiled from his home country. In 2016, it was included in the Top 100 Serbian movies and protected as cultural heritage of great importance. That same year, she played in the war drama "Balada o svirepom..." also known as "Ballad of the Fierceone" (1971). She won the award for Best Actress for her performance in "Kuca" also known as "The House" (1975) at the 1975 Pula Film Festival of Yugoslavian Films.

Parallel to her acting career, Jagoda Kaloper was also an author and artist. She graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts in 1970 and she became a member of the Croatian Association of Artists. She did several exhibitions, mostly in the field of performance, public artistic actions, and happenings. During her artistic career, she also created graphic design for various magazines, books, catalogues, posters, as well as many visual identities for different exhibitions and events. In later years, she occasionally appeared in smaller film and television roles, but preferring to pursue her art career, mostly in the field of painting and sculpture. She won multiple awards in different art fields.

She was married to architect Radovan Tajder with whom she had a daughter, author Ana Tajder.

15. Debbi Morgan

Actress | Eve's Bayou

Debbi Morgan moved to New York City when she was three months old. Her most memorable role was on the television series All My Children (1970). She played Angie Baxter. Her performance in the series earned her four Daytime Emmy Award nominations, and one win. With over 50 film and television ...

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Explicit sex in "Cry Uncle" (1971)

She was 19 at the time of filming.

Born in North Carolina, Debbi Morgan was the daughter of a teacher and a butcher. She has a younger sister. The family relocated to the Bronx when Debbi was still a child. In a 1997 interview with People, she revealed that her father was an abusive alcoholic. While he never physically harmed his daughters, she recalled her mother often running from her father. Her father died of leukemia in 1975.

"Cry Uncle" (1971) was Debbi Morgan's debut. The movie's release was marred by controversy. Debbi, who was present in the film's unsimulated sex scenes, was officially 19 when the film was shot but it was rumoured that she was born in 1956 and not 1951, which would have made her only 14. As it was illegal, it led to an investigation, which eventually showed that Debbi Morgan was indeed born in 1951 and cleared the filmmakers of any wrong doing. In 1976, she had an uncredited role in the iconic Martin Scorsese movie "Taxi Driver", starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster and Cybill Shepherd, and she played in the blaxploitation movie "The Monkey Hu$tle", starring Yaphet Kotto.

She then had a recurring role in the television series "What's Happening!!" from 1976 to 1977 and appeared in an episode of the long running series "The Love Boat" in 1979. That same year, she received critical acclaim for her role in the Mini-Series "Roots: The Next Generations" and her guest-starring role in "The White Shadow". She appeared in an episode of "The Incredible Hulk" in 1980 and in an episode of "The Cosby Show" in 1992. In 1989, she became the first African-American to win the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role in the ABC soap opera "All My Children". She is known for portraying the same character on three different soap operas. She reprised her role in ABC's "Loving" in 1993 and in "The City" in 1995. She left soap operas and began her film career.

She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Eve's Bayou" (1997) at the 1998 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards. In 1999, she played in "She's All That" with Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook and Anna Paquin, and in "The Hurricane", starring Denzel Washington, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber and John Hannah. She did not turn her back on television, however. From 2002 to 2003, Morgan played a lead character alongside co-star Lea Thompson in "For the People". She also played in the fourth and fifth seasons of "Charmed", the popular television series starring Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano and Rose McGowan. In 2005, she was cast in "Coach Carter", a sports drama film starring Samuel L. Jackson based on the true story of Richmond High School basketball coach Ken Carter, who made headlines in 1999 for suspending his undefeated high school basketball team due to poor academic results.

Debbi Morgan reprised her role in "All My Children" in 2008. ABC cancelled the series in 2011 and Morgan joined the cast of "The Young and the Restless" in 2011 and 2012. In 2017, Morgan appeared in the Marvel miniseries "The Defenders", starring Charlie Cox as Daredevil, Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones, Mike Colter as Luke Cage and Finn Jones as Iron Fist. In 2023, she portrayed Keyshia Cole's mother in the Lifetime biopic "Keyshia Cole This Is My Story". Jasmine Blu from TVfanatic wrote in her review: "Debbi Morgan has always been a force, a legend who deserves every last bit of her flowers right here and now. To say she stole this film would be the understatement of the century. She was magnificent. She did such a remarkable job playing Franky; there were moments it literally gave me chills. It's almost eerie how well Morgan embodied the late mother and grandmother."

Morgan has been married four times and has no children. Her first marriage was to actor, director, singer, and songwriter Charles Weldon from 1980 until 1984. In 1989, Morgan married actor and director Charles S. Dutton, divorcing in 1994. From 1997 until 2000, Morgan was married to photographer Donn Thompson. Morgan has been married to Jeffrey Winston since June 2009.

16. Barbara Hershey

Actress | Black Swan

Barbara Hershey was born Barbara Lynn Herzstein in Hollywood, California, to Melrose (Moore) and Arnold Nathan Herzstein, a horse racing columnist. Her father, born in Manhattan, was from a Jewish family (from Hungary and Russia), and her mother, originally from Arkansas, had English and ...

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Explicit nudity in "The Pursuit of Happiness" (1971)
Explicit nudity in "Boxcar Bertha" (1972)
Explicit nudity in "The Stunt Man" (1980)
Explicit nudity in "The Entity" (1982)

She was respectively 23, 24, 31 and 33 at the time of filming.

In a career spanning more than 50 years, Barbara Hershey has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema in several genres, including westerns and comedies. She was born in Hollywood. Her father was a a horse-racing columnist. Her father's parents were Jewish emigrants from Hungary and Russia while her mother, a native of Arkansas, was a Presbyterian of Scots-Irish descent. The youngest of three children, Barbara always wanted to be an actress, and her family nicknamed her "Sarah Bernhardt". She was shy in school and so quiet that people thought she was deaf. By the age of ten, she proved herself to be an "A" student. Her high-school drama coach helped her find an agent.

In 1965, at age 17, she landed a role on Sally Field's television series "Gidget". Barbara said that she found Field to be very supportive of her in her first acting role. It was followed by a recurring role in the short-lived television series "The Monroes" (1966), which also featured Michael Anderson, Jr. By this point, she had adopted the stage name "Barbara Hershey". Although Hershey said the series helped her career, she expressed some frustration with her role, saying: "One week I was strong, the next, weak". While on the series, Hershey garnered several other roles, including one in Doris Day's final feature film "With Six You Get Eggroll" (1968). That same year, she appeared in an episode of the popular television series "The Invaders" (1968), starring Roy Thinnes in the famous role of David Vincent. She then obtained a more significant role in the Glenn Ford western "Heaven with a Gun" (1969), also starring Carolyn Jones, John Anderson and David Carradine with whom she began a romantic relationship. Carradine said that during the rape scene in that movie, he cracked one of Barbara's ribs. It was the first career nude scene for Angelique Pettyjohn.

In the same year, she played in the controversial drama "Last Summer" (1969), which was based on Evan Hunter's eponymous novel. In this film, Hershey played a character who influences two young men, played by Bruce Davison and Richard Thomas, to rape another girl, played by Catherine Burns who was making her feature film debut. Though the film received an X rating for the graphic rape scene, Burns earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her performance. The movie originally received an X-Rating upon its release. Some minor cuts were made to the dialog and the rape scene so it could receive a R-rating, thus enabling a much wider and profitable release. In 2012, Barbara Hershey revealed that she, Bruce Davison and Richard Thomas didn't really get along. She said: "Bruce and Richard might say something different, but I think Frank was encouraging us more to be into our characters than to bond. He was sort of isolating us from our lives.... We had interaction with each other, but it wasn't like we were a close-knit group." A seagull was killed during filming. Hershey explained, "In one scene, I had to throw the bird in the air to make her fly. We had to shoot the scene over and over again. I could tell the bird was tired. Finally, when the scene was finished, the director, Frank Perry, told me the bird had broken her neck on the last throw." Hershey felt responsible for the bird's death and changed her stage name to "Seagull" as a tribute to the creature. "I felt her spirit enter me," she later explained. "It was the only moral thing to do." The name change was not positively received.

Hershey once said that starring in "Boxcar Bertha" (1972) "was the most fun I ever had on a movie even though it's terribly crippled by Roger Corman (the producer) and the violence and sex." In his autobiography, Martin Scorsese said Roger Corman hired him to direct this film, gave him the script and told him to change whatever he wanted, but he had to remember to include nudity every 15 pages. Corman laughed about that in an interview. He said Scorsese probably remembered it wrong. The film, co-starring Hershey's domestic partner, David Carradine, was Martin Scorsese's first Hollywood picture. Barbara Hershey made it public that the sex scenes of "Boxcar Bertha" were not simulated as she was in a relationship with David Carradine at the time of filming. The two actors recreated some of the nude scenes from the movie in a Playboy spread. By the mid-1970s, Hershey concluded, "I've been so tied up with David [Carradine] that people have forgotten that I am me. I spend 50 percent of my time working with David." She had, in 1974, guest-starred in a two-part episode of Carradine's television series "Kung Fu". She also appeared in two of Carradine's independent directorial projects, "You and Me" (1975) and "Americana" (1983), both of which had been filmed in 1973.

She publicly acknowledged the desire to be recognized in her own right. She did just that, winning a gold medal at the Atlanta Film Festival for her role in the Dutch-produced film "Love Comes Quietly" (1973). Director Nikolai van der Heyde sent many letters to Barbara Hershey, practically begging her to play the lead in his picture. When she finally agreed, she took her then boyfriend David Carradine with her, who used the opportunity to do research for his planned picture about the life of Mata Hari. When Barbara Hershey agreed to participate in this film, she was six months pregnant and so Nikolai van der Heyde rewrote his screenplay to suit her condition. In a revealing scene, the actress undresses to swim in a lake, showing full frontal and rear nudity. The grandparents of Dutch topmodel Doutzen Kroes both play roles as extras. Her grandfather as the doctor and her grandmother as the farmer's wife teaching Barbara Hershey cleaning with sand. In October 1972, Hershey gave birth to a son.

Her relationship with Carradine fell apart around the time of his arrest for attempted burglary and malicious mischief while under the influence of peyote in 1974, and after he had begun an affair with Season Hubley who had guest-starred in "Kung Fu". When she was offered a part opposite Timothy Bottoms in "The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder" (1974), Producer Hugh Hefner insisted that Barbara Hershey's fee be cut in half when she insisted on being billed as "Barbara Seagull" as the new name reduced her box office clout. Later, Hershey starred with Charlton Heston and James Coburn in "The Last Hard Men" (1976). She hoped the film would revive her career after the damage it had suffered while she was with Carradine, believing that the hippie label she had been given was a career impediment. By this time, she had broken up with Carradine and shed her "Seagull" pseudonym. Reportedly, Brian Garfield liked this screen adaptation of his "Gun Down" novel first published in 1971 and gave the film a thumbs up. Throughout the rest of the 1970s, however, Barbara Hershey only appeared in made-for-TV movies, most of them being described as "forgettable", to the exception of the excellent TV-movie "Just a Little Inconvenience" (1977), in which she starred opposite Lee Majors and Jim Davis. In 1979, a blunt newspaper article from the Knight News Service referenced this period of her life, saying of her acting career that "it looked as if she blew it." The article referred to Hershey as a "kook" and stated that she was frequently "high on something". In addition to that criticism, she had been ostracized for breast-feeding her son during an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show and for breast-feeding him beyond the age of two. She said that this period of her life hurt her career: "Producers wouldn't see me because I had a reputation for using drugs and being undependable. I never used drugs at all and I have always been serious about my acting career."

After splitting up with Carradine, she changed her stage name back to Hershey, explaining that she had told the story of why she adopted the name "Seagull" so many times that it had lost its meaning. In 1980, Hershey landed a role in Richard Rush's "The Stunt Man" (1980), opposite Peter O'Toole, marking a return to the big screen after four years and earning her critical praise. Hershey felt that she would be forever in debt to Rush for fighting with financiers to allow her a part in that film. She also felt this role was an important transition for her, from playing girls to playing women. Columbia offered the film to Richard Rush on the strength of the success of his previous film, "Getting Straight" (1970). Columbia executives then rejected the script, saying it was difficult to find a genre to place it in. Richard Rush has said of the rejection of his first draft script by Columbia Pictures studio executives: "They couldn't figure out if it was a comedy, a drama, if it was a social satire, if it was an action adventure...and, of course, the answer was, 'Yes, it's all those things.' But that isn't a satisfactory answer to a studio executive." During the long period of the making and release of this film, director Richard Rush suffered two heart attacks. Publicity for this picture declared that the movie "defies categorization." The production notes stated that "while other films can be conveniently classified as comedies, westerns, thrillers or musicals" this film though is "a multi-layered experience." All the major American film distributors refused to distribute this picture. The 20th Century Fox film picked up the picture for distribution the same day the film won the Grand Prix at the Montreal Film Festival. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Leading Role - Peter O'Toole; Best Director - Richard Rush and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. The film is now considered a cult movie. Reportedly, when actor Peter O'Toole first read the movie's script a few years prior to the film getting made, O'Toole said to director Richard Rush "I am an articulate, intelligent man. I read the screenplay and if you don't give me the part I will kill you".

One of the "women roles" that followed for Barbara Hershey included the horror movie "The Entity" (1982). Actresses Jane Fonda, Jill Clayburgh, Bette Midler and Sally Field were initially sought for the role. This movie is based on the real life attack of a Californian woman named Doris Bither. According to Bither, she was constantly raped by the spirits of three men. Two would hold her down while the third raped her. After the premiere, some teenagers of that time sarcastically re-titled the movie as "The En-Titty", after the scene where the Entity attacks Hershey's character while she sleeps, touching her nude breast. Barbara Hershey said, "I resent being put in the position of defending the film. We worked really hard not to make it exploitative. Rape is one of the ugliest, if not THE ugliest thing that can happen to someone. It's murder of a sort. I have no answer for those who are offended. They're right, but I don't think our intention was to exploit the subject, or the result. Truly, I don't. I think we did well with it." When Hershey was interviewed for the Scream Factory Blu-ray of "The Entity" in 2018, she had nothing but kind words to say about director Sidney J. Furie, even saying that going to work on it was fun and stress-free because he was at the helm, making her feel comfortable, safe, and protected at every turn. She also described it as one of the best creative experiences of her career. She won the Best Actress award for her performance in "The Entity" (1982) at the 1983 Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival.

In 1983, she played Glennis Yeager, wife of test pilot Chuck Yeager, in Philip Kaufman's "The Right Stuff", alongside Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, Lance Henriksen, Veronica Cartwright and Pamela Reed. The movie won four Oscars; Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Effects and Best Music, Original Score. the following year, she was cast in Barry Levinson's sports drama "The Natural" (1984), in which she shot Robert Redford's character, inspired by a real-life incident where Ruth Ann Steinhagen shot ballplayer Eddie Waitkus. The film cast includes three Oscar winners: Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, and Kim Basinger; and three Oscar nominees: Glenn Close, Barbara Hershey, and Richard Farnsworth. In 1986, Hershey left her native California and moved to Manhattan with her son. Three days later, she met briefly with Woody Allen who offered her a role in "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986), with Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Carrie Fisher, Maureen O'Sullivan Michael Caine and Max von Sydow. The picture won three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe. The film also earned Hershey a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She described her part as "a wonderful gift". She also played the love interest to Gene Hackman's character in the basketball film "Hoosiers" (1986). Hershey then reunited with Barry Levinson for the comedy "Tin Men" (1987), opposite Danny DeVito and Richard Dreyfuss. Barbara Hershey then won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival two years in a row. For her role in "Shy People" in 1987 and for her role in "A World Apart" in 1988. She reunited with Martin Scorsese in "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988), also starring Willem Dafoe and Harvey Keitel. During the filming of "Boxcar Bertha", Hershey had introduced Scorsese to the Nikos Kazantzakis novel on which the latter film was based. That collaboration resulted in an Academy Award nomination for the director and a Golden Globe nod for Hershey. The film attracted controversy not only in the United States, but also internationally due to the frontal nudity in the crucifixion scenes, and the strong implication that Jesus had a sexual relationship with Mary Magdalene.

Barbara Cloud of the Pittsburgh Press gave attribution to Hershey for starting a trend when she had collagen injected into her lips for her role in "Beaches" (1988), which also starred Bette Midler. Barbara Hershey had collagen lip injections to make herself look younger (she was 40 at the time and was playing Hilary from college age to mid-thirties). In 1989, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as "one of America's finest actresses". In 1990, Hershey won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special for her role as Candy Morrison in "A Killing in a Small Town" (1990), which was based on the acquittal of Candy Montgomery who killed Betty Gore by hitting her 41 times with an ax. In preparation for the part, Hershey had a phone conversation with Montgomery. In 1992, Hershey married artist Stephen Douglas. The ceremony took place at her home in Connecticut where the only guests were their two mothers and Hershey's then 19-year-old son. The couple separated and divorced one year later. Hershey co-starred with Joe Pesci as a nightclub owner in the film drama "The Public Eye" (1992) and as the abused estranged wife of a homicidal Michael Douglas in the thriller "Falling Down" (1993), also starring Robert Duvall. Michael Douglas considers this his favorite performance of all the movies he has been in. In 1995, Barbara Hershey played in "Last of the Dogmen", co-starring Tom Berenger. Barbara Hershey then won the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Jane Campion's adaptation of the Henry James novel "The Portrait of a Lady" (1996), also starring Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Richard E. Grant, Valentina Cervi, Christian Bale and Viggo Mortensen. Barbara Hershey replaced Susan Sarandon who was originally cast to play Madame Merle, but had to pull out when the shooting schedule was delayed and interfered with the beginning of her daughter's school year.

In 1999, Hershey starred in an independent film called "Drowning on Dry Land". During production she she began a romantic relationship with co-star Naveen Andrews. In 2001, Hershey appeared in the psychological thriller "Lantana". She was the only American in a mostly Australian cast, which included Kerry Armstrong, Anthony LaPaglia and Geoffrey Rush. Anthony LaPaglia had to work with a dialect coach to regain his native Australian accent. He had lost it from years of working on American movies. Film writer Sheila Johnson said the film was "one of the best to emerge from Australia in years." In 2003, Hershey played in another thriller "11:14", which also featured Rachael Leigh Cook, Patrick Swayze, Hilary Swank, Clark Gregg and Colin Hanks.

During the 2000s, Barbara Hershey continuously appeared on television, including a season on the series "The Mountain" between 2004 and 2005. During a brief separation with Naveen Andrews in 2005, Andrews fathered a child with another woman. In May 2010, the couple announced that they had ended their 10-year relationship six months earlier. In 2010, Hershey appeared in an adaptation of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Expres"s for the British television series "Poirot" starring David Suchet. Also in 2010, Hershey co-starred in Darren Aronofsky's acclaimed psychological thriller "Black Swan" (2010) opposite Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. That same year, she co-starred Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson in the horror film "Insidious" (2010). From 2012 to 2016, she had a recurring role in ABC's hit television drama "Once Upon a Time", starring Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Carlyle, Jennifer Morrison and Emilie de Ravin. She reprised her role in "Insidious: Chapter 2" (2013), and again in "Insidious: The Last Key" (2018). That same year, she appeared in one episode of "The X Files". In 2020, she is part of the main cast in the television series "Paradise Lost", alonside Bridget Regan, Shane McRae, Nick Nolte and Josh Hartnett.

17. Serena

Actress | Le corps de mon ennemi

Serena is known for Body of My Enemy (1976), The Lovers! (1973) and Vampire Circus (1972).

Explicit nudity in "Vampire Circus" (1972)

She performs her nude scene with her husband Milovan Vesnitch. The movie was censored.

18. Maria Schneider

Actress | Ultimo tango a Parigi

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...

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Explicit sex in "Ultimo tango a Parigi" also know as "Last Tango in Paris" (1972)

She was 19 at the time of filming.

Maria Schneider was a French actress born in Paris from an adulterous relationship between French actor Daniel Gélin, who never recognised Maria as his daughter, and Marie-Christine Schneider, a former model from Romania who ran a bookshop in Paris. Daniel Gélin was married to actress and producer Danièle Delorme during the affair and his lack of father-level involvement was deeply felt by his daughter. Schneider was first brought up by her mother in a town near the French border with Germany. Eventually, her mother was unwilling to attend to her and entrusted her to a nurse for two years. Maria Schneider later lived for several years with her maternal uncle Michel Schneider and his wife. She reconnected with her biological father when she was sixteen, by visiting him unannounced. Schneider later said that she had met Gélin only "three times". Her cousin Vanessa Schneider wrote, in a biographical book published in 2018, that Maria Schneider had actually been in regular contact with her father during her late teens. It was he who first brought her to a film set. Over the years, Maria Schneider and her biological father met irregularly. She eventually bonded with her half-siblings who had been unaware of her until after she starred in "Last Tango in Paris", especially her half-sister, actress Fiona Gélin.

As a teenager, Schneider loved films, going to the cinema up to four times a week. She left home at age 15 after an argument with her mother and went to Paris, where she made her stage-acting debut that same year. She eked out a living as a film extra and a model. While working on a film set, she met Brigitte Bardot, who, having worked with her father on several productions (a father who refused to help his daughter), was "horrified" that the young actress was homeless and offered her a room in her house. Through Bardot, Schneider met people in the film business, including Warren Beatty, who was greatly impressed by Schneider, and introduced her to the William Morris Agency.

She was 18 when she had her first break in 1970, appearing in "Madly", starring Alain Delon and Mireille Darc. This was followed by relatively substantial roles in films such as "Les jambes en l'air" (1971), starring Sylva Koscina, Roger Vadim's "Hellé" (1972) in which she had full frontal nude scenes, and "La Vieille Fille" also known as "The Old Maid" (1972) with Philippe Noiret, Annie Girardot, Michael Lonsdale and Marthe Keller.

Maria Schneider gained international recognition at the age of 19 for her performance in Bernardo Bertolucci's sexually explicit "Last Tango in Paris" (1972). In 2001, Schneider commented: "Last Tango... first major role. In fact, it's a total coincidence. I was friends with actress Dominique Sanda. She was supposed to take the role opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant, but she was pregnant. She had a large picture with her of both of us. Bertolucci saw it and he made me do a casting. Sylvia Kristel auditioned for the role but failed. Two years later, Kristel became a global sex symbol after starring in "Emmanuelle". A lot of controversy surrounds "Last Tango in Paris" with the actress stating that Bertolucci only revealed to her on the same day of filming that she was going to do a rape scene which was not in the script. Bertolucci claimed that it was because he wanted her distress to be authentic. She was forced into it by a very unapologetic Marlon Brando who downplayed the incident. In 2007, she said: "I should have called my agent or had my lawyer come to the set because you can't force someone to do something that isn't in the script, but at the time, I didn't know that. Marlon said to me: 'Maria, don't worry, it's just a movie,' but during the scene, I was crying real tears. I felt humiliated and to be honest, I felt raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci. After the scene, Marlon didn't console me or apologise. Thankfully, there was just one take." Criminal proceedings were brought against Bertolucci in Italy. He received a four-month suspended prison sentence and his civil rights were revoked for five years. The film was confiscated by the censorship commission and banned in Spain. Maria Schneider said that Bernardo Bertolucci ruined her life. In his autobiography Marlon Brando said that Bertolucci was one of the best directors he ever worked with.

Schneider said that due to her experience with the film and her treatment afterward as a sex symbol rather than as a serious actress, she decided never to work nude again. She started struggling with depression, became a drug addict and made several suicide attempts. In 1973, she starred in Enrico Maria Salerno's drama "Cari genitori" also known as "Dear Parents", alongside Catherine Spaak and Florinda Bolkan, a movie about the generation gap that exists between a mother and a daughter, and in "Reigen" also known as "Dance of Love" with Sydne Rome, a movie based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler.

In 1975, she was cast opposite Jack Nicholson in the well-received Michelangelo Antonioni film "Professione: reporter" also known as "The Passenger", which remains one of the highlights of her career and was the personal favorite of the actress. After initially refusing the role, Maria Schneider did not sign until the film was several weeks into production. Susan George had arrived in Barcelona to play the part only to discover that Maria Schneider had been cast. Bollywood actress Simi Garewal was also considered for the lead role .This was when Maria Schneider was in drug rehab and had to opt out. Just as Simi gave her approval Maria got a letter from her doctor that she was fit to film the movie. Maria Schneider argued with Michelangelo Antonioni about her nude scene. Having just made "Last Tango in Paris", she was worried about being constantly perceived as a sex object. As it transpired, the scene in question is shot from a distance and is very discreet. Jack Nicholson also said publicly that it was "probably the biggest adventure in filming" that he ever had in his life. Wanting to protect a piece of art that he loved, Jack Nicholson bought the rights to the film from MGM shortly after its release, and kept it out of circulation for many years. Maria Schneider was suffering from excruciating back pain during filming and would often be in a medicated muddle towards the end of the day when her pain medications kicked in. In one scene, Jack Nicholson had to physically prop her up. That same year, Schneider also starred in René Clément's final movie, the Hitchcockian thriller "La baby sitter" also known as "Wanted: Babysitter" (1975), in which she shares the screen with Sydne Rome again and Robert Vaughn. According to Schneider, the director actually wanted the actress for the villainous role; yet, when Antonioni screened "The Passenger" for him, Clément decided that Schneider would be ideal for the heroine.

During the '70s, Schneider traveled (including to the Hopi Reservation and Navajo Nation) and lived in various parts of Europe, including Venice, Paris, and London. After "The Passenger" and "Wanted: Babysitter", Schneider settled in Los Angeles for a year, looking around for film opportunities. Schneider opted to star in small-budgeted, independent European productions, such as the little-seen Swiss period piece "Violanta" (1977), with a young Gérard Depardieu. She was offered roles in Hollywood movies such as "Black Sunday" (1977) as a Palestinian guerilla terrorist, which she turned down based on what she perceived to be poor quality material. She signed up with renowned talent agent and producer Paul Kohner and several movies were considered, but ultimately little came of this. Work became difficult for her to find, as she had become uninsurable. Moving back to Europe, Schneider was asked by director Tinto Brass to play Drusilla, the incestuous sister of a notorious Roman emperor, opposite Malcolm McDowell, in the infamous, pornographic, multi-million dollar Penthouse production of "Caligula". Schneider refused to perform nude or do graphic sex scenes. She stormed out of the film set shouting "I am an actress, not a prostitute!". She checked herself into a mental hospital in Rome for several days to be with her lover, photographer Joan Townsend, which led to her dismissal from the film and to be replaced mid-production with Teresa Ann Savoy. Around the same time, Schneider agreed to star in Luis Buñuel's "That Obscure Object of Desire" (1977). She showed up on set, yet argued with the filmmaker over how her role would be portrayed in light of Schneider's growing concern regarding the depiction of women in cinema, and because of excessive nudity. Schneider ultimately dropped out and Buñuel made the creative, unusual decision to replace her with not one but two actresses for the same role: Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina. She was asked to play Mary, mother of Jesus in Franco Zeffirelli's 1979 television miniseries "Jesus of Nazareth". Schneider said she did not feel right for the part, though later regretted missing out on this opportunity.

Maria Schneider became a women's rights advocate, in particular fighting for more female film directors, more respect for female actors, and better representation of women in film and media. "I'm still struggling for the image of women in film and I'm still working, not as much as I would like to because for a woman in her late forties, it's hard to find work. Not only in France. I had a chat with Anjelica Huston last year. We spoke about the same problem, you know. I don't know where it comes from? The writers, the producers, or the directors. But I think it's a pity for the public." She opted to play in three consciously feministic works: the Italian production "Io Sono Mia" also known as "I Belong to Me" (1978), with Stefania Sandrelli; the graphic, disturbing "La Dérobade" also known as "Memoirs of a French Whore" (1979), alongside Miou-Miou, and for which Schneider was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 1980 César Awards; and the lesbian Dutch drama "Een vrouw als Eva" also known as "A Woman Like Eve" (1979), directed by Nouchka van Brakel, in which Schneider plays the bohemian love interest of conflicted Monique van de Ven who is married to and has children with Peter Faber. During production, Maria Schneider had an affair with cinematographer Nurith Aviv.

Towards the end of the decade, famed arthouse director Jacques Rivette met Schneider at a café on the Champs-Elysées and asked her what kind of movie she'd like to make with him, to which Schneider replied "a thriller". Rivette then asked which actor she'd like to star with and she suggested her friend Joe Dallesandro, renowned for his association with Andy Warhol and leading performances in Paul Morrissey's films. The result was the vague, symbolic crime drama "Merry-Go-Round" (1980), a troubled production that Schneider and Rivette, both overcome by ill health and personal issues, eventually completed, and was finally released to mediocre reviews.

The 1980s were a much quieter period for Schneider, both personally and professionally. Following issues with multiple drug addictions (including cocaine, LSD, and heroin[18]) and a suicide attempt in the '70s, Schneider once and for all overcame these problems by the early '80s, which she accredited to 'her angel', which may have been life-partner Maria Pia Almadio. The beginning of the decade saw the actress appearing in a campy Belgian vampire comedy with Louise Fletcher, "Mama Dracula" (1980), based on the true story of Countess Bathory, an enthusiast of rejuvenation baths consisting of the blood of young virgins, which received universally negative reviews from critics. The same year, she performed alongside Klaus Kinski and Katia Tchenko in the French thriller "Haine" (1980).

1981 saw Schneider in "Sezona mira u Parizu", a Yugoslavian picture set in the French capital, which follows a documentarian researching the history of Nazism in Paris. There he meets and falls in love with Schneider's mysterious character, who helps him out on his quest. The picture won a Special Prize at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. It featured Schneider's father, Daniel Gélin, in a supporting role as a taxi driver. None of his scenes are shared with Maria, however. As of 2016 it was included in the #100 Serbian movies list (1911-1999) and protected as cultural heritage of great importance. She then offered performances in two comedies; the Italian "Cercasi Gesù" also known as "Looking for Jesus" (1982) with Fernando Rey, and the French "Balles perdues" also known as "Stray Bullets" (1983) with Capucine and Andréa Ferréol. Starting from 1984, Schneider began appearing more regularly in European television movies and shows, such as "A Song for Europe" (1985) with David Suchet, while doing supporting roles in cinematic turns like the Japanese "Yoroppa tokkyu" also known as "The Princess and the Photographer" (1984) alongside Mylène Demongeot. Towards the end of the 1980s, Schneider had substantial roles in the French thriller "Résidence surveillée" (1987) alongside Myriam Mézières, and the post-apocalyptic surrealistic comedy "Bunker Palace Hôtel" (1989) with three other legends of French cinema: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Bouquet, and Jean-Pierre Léaud, who was a member of the cast in "Last Tango in Paris".

In 1973, Schneider made her bisexuality public. She told The New York Times: "I left my mother's home when I was 15, and I had my first affair at 16. We did everything, but not penetration. Now I'm bisexual completely, and I've had quite a few lovers for my age. More men than women. Probably 50 men and 20 women. I'm incapable of fidelity. I have a need for a million experiences. Women I love more for beauty than for sex. Men I love for grace and intelligence." Schneider said that she disliked the instant fame accorded to her from "Last Tango in Paris". She suffered abuse and began taking drugs. "I was rock 'n' roll. About drugs, we did not know at the time, it was so dangerous. There was an ideal, to change society and especially a thirst for novelty. I have lost seven years of my life and I regret it bitterly. I started using drugs when I became famous. I did not like the celebrity, and especially the image full of innuendo, naughty, that people had of me after Last Tango. In addition, I had no family behind me to protect me. I suffered abuse. People who come up to tell you unpleasant things on planes. I was tracked down, and I felt hounded."

In 2001, Schneider was the guest of honor at the 23rd Festival Créteil Films de Femmes. In a master class at the festival, she called film "a tracing of memory", and said that women must be recognized as actors and directors. She also brought attention to the importance of assisting senior French actors who become unemployed and impoverished. Schneider was chosen the same year as vice-president of La Roue Tourne, an organization in Paris that supports senior French actors and directors. According to Schneider, Marcel Carné, director of "Children of Paradise" (1945) and one of the most important directors of the late 1930s, would have died in poverty but for La Roue Tourne supporting him for the last 10 years of his life. In 2010, Schneider was awarded the medal of Chevalier, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, for her contributions to the arts by the French Minister of Culture and Communication.

Schneider died of cancer in February 2011 at age 58. Her funeral was attended by actors, directors, and producers in French cinema such as Dominique Besnehard, Bertrand Blier, Christine Boisson, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, and Andréa Ferreol, her partner Maria Pia Almadio, half-siblings Fiona and Manuel Gélin. After Schneider's death, Patti Smith released a song on her 2012 album Banga called "Maria", which was dedicated both to the actress and nostalgic memories of the 1970s. In 2018, her cousin Vanessa Schneider published "Tu t'appelais Maria Schneider", a book about her.

19. Joyce Van Patten

Actress | Grown Ups

Adept at both comedy and drama, veteran "second lead" and character actress Joyce Van Patten was born on March 9, 1934, in New York City. Prodded by a typically assertive magazine editor (stage) mother, Joyce and her equally famous older brother Dick Van Patten displayed natural talent and began ...

(USA)

Explicit nudity in "Bone" (1972)

She was 38 at the time of filming.

She made her acting debut on stage at age 9. She was only aged 16 when she got married. She gave birth to a son a year later.

20. 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. ...

(Spain)

Explicit nudity in "Eugenie" also know as "Eugenie De Sade" (1973)

She was 27 at the time of filming.

The movie was made in 1970. Unfortunately this was her last role as she died tragically in a car accident a few months later.

She was an actress and pop singer. She released numerous Spanish-language pop songs throughout the mid-60s. She was the niece of Paquita Rico, a famous Spanish singer, actress and flamenco dancer. Soledad Miranda was hired as a flamenco dancer and singer at age 8. She went on tour throughout southern Spain.

She made her film debut in 1960 as a dancer in a musical called "La Bella Mimí". She was often in the tabloids as the rumored girlfriend of the most famous bullfighter of the time: Manuel Benítez (El Cordobés). Director Jess Franco, for whom Miranda had done a small role in his musical "Queen of the Tabarin Club", made Miranda his frequent star in his films.

21. Denise Dillaway

Actress | The Cheerleaders

Denise Dillaway was born on July 15, 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for The Cheerleaders (1973), Racquet (1979) and The Bold and the Beautiful (1987).

(USA)

Explicit nudity in "The Cheerleaders" (1973)

She was 25 at the time of filming.

The film was surrounded by controversy due to its plot and subject matter. Underage characters running around nude and having sex with adults, which is considered as statutory rape.

22. Stephanie Fondue

Actress | The Cheerleaders

Stephanie Fondue is known for The Cheerleaders (1973).

(Canada)

Explicit nudity in "The Cheerleaders" (1973).

Her only acting role. She had no problems being nude when asked to disrobe during the audition. She was considered by the director as the most comfortable of the cheerleaders being naked.

23. 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 ...

(Italy)

Explicit nudity in "Storie scellerate" also know as "Bawdy Tales" (1973)
Explicit nudity in "L'Important c'est d'aimer" also know as "That Most Important Thing: Love" (1975)
Explicit nudity in "Al di là del bene e del male" also know as "Beyond Good and Evil" (1977)

She was respectively 29, 31 and 33 at the time of filming.

"Bawdy Tales" received an Italian censorship on release. She was a descendant of the Renaissance philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli also known as Nicholas Machiavel. She studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence. She was discovered by producer Dino De Laurentiis. She played in a series of spaghetti westerns before moving to art film.

24. Monique van de Ven

Actress | Romeo

Monique van de Ven was born on July 28, 1952 in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. She is an actress and director, known for Romeo (1990), Ademloos (1982) and Amsterdamned (1988). She has been married to Edwin de Vries since 1991. They have two children. She was previously married to Jan de Bont.

(The Netherlands)

Explicit sex in "Turks fruit" also know as "Turkish Delight" (1973)
Explicit sex in "Brandende liefde" also know as "Burning Love" (1983) with a close shot of her giving birth

She was respectively 21 and 31 at the time of filming.

"Turkish Delight" was her debut as an actress. This movie was an immediate breakthrough for her acting career. Willeke van Ammelrooy was the first choice for the role but she was too greedy. Another reason why director Paul Verhoeven chose Monique van de Ven was because he considered Willeke van Ammelrooij too sensual for the role of an innocent girl. The Paul Verhoeven film was nominated for an Academy Award and was chosen as the best Dutch film of the century. It was rejected by the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in France who considered it as pornographic. The book on which this movie was based is very popular and is read a lot in Dutch schools. In 1986, Monique van de Ven played in the Oscar-winning film "The Assault".

25. Julie Christie

Actress | Doctor Zhivago

Julie Christie, the British movie legend whom Al Pacino called "the most poetic of all actresses," was born in Chabua, Assam, India, on April 14, 1940, the daughter of a tea planter and his Welsh wife Rosemary, who was a painter. The young Christie grew up on her father's plantation before being ...

(United Kingdom)

Explicit sex in "Don't Look Now" (1973)

She was 33 at the time of filming.

Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie met for the first time on the set of this film. The first scene they had to shoot was the sex scene. Still the most talked about sex scene in Hollywood to this day with a "did they, didn't they?" situation. A member of the film crew confirmed that they had real sex but it was denied by the actors. Donald Sutherland was a married man and Julie Christie was in a relationship with Warren Beatty at the time. In 2011, Donald Sutherland and producer Peter Katz issued denials to the longstanding rumor that the actors had engaged in unsimulated intercourse during their sex scene. 9 frames (less than half a second) had to be cut from the intimate love sequence in order to avoid an X-certificate rating in the US. The famous sex scene was completely removed by the British and Irish censors.

Julie Christie has been actively supporting various causes including animal rights, environmental protection and the anti-nuclear power movement. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, Christie is the recipient of numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1997, she received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement.

26. Charlotte Alexandra

Actress | Une vraie jeune fille

Born in England in 1955, Charlotte Alexandra Seeley was active as an actress in France as Charlotte Alexandra (her middle name) from 1974 to 1976 and in England as Charlotte Seeley (her last name) from 1977 to 1987. Not particularly beautiful but in no way shy about her body, she was the ideal ...

(United Kingdom)

Explicit nudity in "Contes immoraux" also know as "Immoral Tales" (1973)
Explicit sex in "Une vraie jeune fille" also know as "A Real Young Girl" (1976)

She was respectively 18 and 20 at the time of filming.

Charlotte Alexandra is Jane Birkin's cousin. "Immoral Tales" received an Italian censorship in 1976. "A Real Young Girl" was filmed in 1975 but it was not released until 1999 due to its graphic depiction of sexuality, including explicit close-ups of Alexandra's vulva and also because the production company went bankrupt.

27. Florence Bellamy

Actress | Contes immoraux

Florence Bellamy is known for Immoral Tales (1973), Paradis pour tous (1982) and The Key Is in the Door (1978).

(France)

Explicit nudity in "Contes immoraux" also know as "Immoral Tales" (1973)

Her debut as an actress.

28. Lise Danvers

Actress | Contes immoraux

Lise Danvers is known for Immoral Tales (1973) and Bloody Murder (1974).

(France)

Explicit nudity in "Contes immoraux" also know as "Immoral Tales" (1973)

She was 23 at the time of filming. It was her acting debut.

29. Britt Ekland

Actress | The Man with the Golden Gun

Britt Ekland was born in Sweden and grew up to be the poster girl for beautiful, big-eyed Scandinavian blondes. She attended a drama school and then joined a traveling theater group. With her looks as her passport, Britt entered films and became a star in Italy. When Peter Sellers met her in a ...

(Sweden)

Explicit nudity in "The Wicker Man" (1973). Filmed in 1972.

She was 30 at the time of filming and pregnant.

Britt Ekland is a Swedish actress, model and singer. She became famous overnight as a result of her marriage to English actor Peter Sellers in 1964. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughout the 60s and 70s. Her high-profile social life, her marriage to Peter Sellers and her relationship with singer Rod Stewart attracted considerable press attention, leading to her being one of the most photographed celebrities in the world during the 1970s.

She was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her mother was a secretary. Her father ran an upmarket clothing store in Stockholm and was captain of the Swedish national curling team, four-time national champion and one-time president of the World Curling Federation. Britt's mother died of Alzheimer's disease in the 1980s, which had a profound effect on her. She grew up with three younger brothers and has said that she was overweight for much of her childhood: "I was very heavy. God, I was brutal-looking. I always tried to be funny to make up for the fact that I was fat and ugly". As a teenager, Ekland left school to travel with a theatre company and was spotted in a coffee shop in Italy by a talent agent who sent her to London to audition for films.

Britt Ekland made her acting debut at age 20 with a small role in Bjarne Henning-Jensen's drama "Kort är sommaren" also known as "Short Is the Summer" (1962), starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann. The following year, she had an uncredited role in Arne Mattsson's drama "Det är hos mig han har varit" (1963), before landing her first major supporting part in George Marshall's western "Advance to the Rear" (1964), starring Glenn Ford and Stella Stevens. After their success in "The Courtship Of Eddie's Father" (1963), Glenn Ford specifically requested Stella Stevens as his co-star. She was under contract to Paramount at the time and loaned out to MGM. They went on to co-star in a third film, "Rage" (1966), at her new studio, Columbia, two years later.

In 1964, 21 year-old Britt Ekland appeared in the Christmas television film "A Carol for Another Christmas" with her then-husband, 40 year-old Peter Sellers. They got married earlier in the year when they filmed this project. It was Peter Sellers' first screen appearance after his near death heart attack. She followed this with Vittorio De Sica's comedy "Caccia alla volpe" also known as "After the Fox" (1966), co-starring Sellers again. During filming, Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland had numerous arguments, and this contributed to a tense atmosphere on the set. She made one last movie with Sellers, Robert Parrish's romantic comedy "The Bobo" (1967). Peter Sellers was legendarily difficult during the making of this film, even falling out with Kenneth Griffith, one of his best friends. He was most hostile towards director Robert Parrish, and made determined efforts not merely to undermine him but to replace him as director. Until a short time before the film's release, it seemed that he would get a co-director credit. But eventually, Parrish got sole credit - some have unkindly suggested that Sellers waived his claim because he knew the film would be a critical and financial disaster (which it was). Sellers and Ekland were also having marital difficulties during the making of this picture and would divorce the year after its release. Sellers' mother also died during production. An article in July 1967 edition of Variety noted that director Robert Parrish wanted to make a sequel titled "The Further Adventures of Olimpia" to star Britt Ekland.

This was followed with a lead role as an Amish girl turned New York City burlesque dancer in William Friedkin's musical "The Night They Raided Minsky's" (1968), also starring Jason Robards, which earned Britt Ekland critical acclaim. She had a body-double for the topless scene. The last mainstream credit of former showgirl and Hollywood hopeful Helen Wood. She played one of Minsky's burlesque dancers. In 1969 she began making adult films as Dolly Sharp, culminating with her appearance in the notorious "Deep Throat" (1972). Tony Curtis was offered the male lead role but declined due to disagreements over the script and was replaced at a month's notice by Jason Robards. The first cut of the film was considered disastrous by all involved. Editor Ralph Rosenblum worked for more than a year to save it, with director William Friedkin long gone. The extensive use of period film clips was Rosenblum's idea. The technique of returning from these clips to the movie by starting with a black-and-white version of a shot and changing to color was invented accidentally when the editor's assistant couldn't find the color copy of a piece of film fast enough.

Next came "Stiletto" (1969), a crime drama based on a novel by Harold Robbins, co-starring Alex Cord, Patrick O'Neal and Roy Scheider. Britt Ekland stepped in for Marisa Mell who was originally cast in the leading role but dropped out due to schedule problems. It was the film debut with an uncredited role for "The Addams Family" star, Raul Julia. Britt Ekland divorced Peter Sellers then starred in a string of Italian films, including Giuliano Montaldo's crime drama "Gli intoccabili" also known as "Machine Gun McCain" (1969), alongside John Cassavetes and Peter Falk, Luigi Magni's drama "Nell'anno del Signore" also known as "The Conspirators" (1969), with Nino Manfredi, Claudia Cardinale, Enrico Maria Salerno, Robert Hossein and Ugo Tognazzi, and Liliana Cavani's drama "I cannibali" also known as "The Year of the Cannibals" (1969), opposite Pierre Clémenti, and Tomas Milian, a modernized retelling of the Greek tragedy Antigone, set in contemporary Milan and drawing upon socio-political themes and imagery of the time, including the protests of 1968, the counter-cultural movement, and the Years of Lead.

In 1971, she was cast as a leading lady and gun moll in Mike Hodges' iconic crime film "Get Carter", opposite Michael Caine, which firmly established her as a blonde bombshell. Britt Ekland was reluctant to be in this movie, as she was afraid of becoming typecast, having already played two gangster molls before, and she did not want to take her clothes off. However, she had financial problems at the time, as a result of bad investment decisions by her accountant. She was later happy that she had been involved with the project. Originally rated X for violence and female nudity, this movie was reclassified as an R after subsequent crime movies became more bloodthirsty. In South Africa, the censor cut out Britt Ekland's phone sex scene, shortening her already brief role; her name was still left on the poster, leaving filmgoers to wonder why she was advertised as appearing.

The 1970s also saw Ekland in several horror films, including "La tua presenza nuda!" also known as "What the Peeper Saw" (1972) as a disturbed bride; the Agatha Christie adaptation "Endless Night" (1972), playing the friend and companion of an American heiress; and as a hallucinatory figure in the anthology film "Asylum" (1972), opposite Charlotte Rampling. Her most iconic horror role came in the 1973 horror film "The Wicker Man", in which she played a Pagan villager and seductress; however, her voice was dubbed in the film to disguise her Swedish-accented English. In between takes of her nude dance scene, she was covered with a towel, which music composer Gary Carpenter had to remove every time they filmed. He declared "It's the weirdest job I've ever had, but certainly not the most unpleasant." She created some controversy when she labelled Galloway in Scotland, where the movie was shot, as the "bleakest place on Earth". The producers had to apologize to the locals. Britt Ekland turned her back on "The Wicker Man" for years even refusing to talk about it. Ekland claims that she was dubbed against her wishes. "I did a Scottish accent and they didn't like it, so they brought jazz singer Annie Ross into the studio and she dubbed my voice. It's the only time in my career that I have not used my own voice." The movie was banned for many years by the South African apartheid censor board. It has never been released in any form in Germany until 2009. Rod Stewart attempted to block the release of "The Wicker Man" when he learned that his girlfriend appeared naked in the movie.

Other roles included the British drama "Baxter!" (1973), the TV film "The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War" (1973), opposite Lee Majors, and the thriller "The Ultimate Thrill" (1974). Ekland's next prominent role came when she was cast as the lead Bond girl in the James Bond movie "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974), with Roger Moore, Christopher Lee and Maud Adams, which received mixed reviews but furthered Ekland's status as a sex symbol. She played a comedy role in "Royal Flash" (1975), opposite Malcolm McDowell and Oliver Reed, which has been described as "perhaps her best screen work".

Ekland portrayed a biographical character based on real-life actress Anny Ondra (boxer Max Schmeling's wife) in the television film "Ring of Passion" (1978). Ekland was also featured in the horror films "The Monster Club" (1980) and "Satan's Mistress" also known as "Demon Rage" (1982), alongside co-star Lana Wood. Shot in 1978, released theatrically in 1982 under three different titles. First shown as "Fury of the Succubus" from April through the end of June. It had a three-week run as "Demon Rage" in April/May. Its widest release was as "Satan's Mistress" from the beginning of June. It played in much of the U.S. under this title. Britt Ekland and Lana Wood are both James Bond girls. Ekland in "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974) and Lana Wood in "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971).

Britt Ekland had supporting roles in independent feature films. She appeared in the comedy film "Fraternity Vacation" (1985), alongside Stephen Geoffreys, Sheree J. Wilson, Leigh McCloskey, Tim Robbins, Barbara Crampton, John Vernon and Nita Talbot, followed by a role in the slasher movie "Moon in Scorpio" (1987), and as a prostitute in Michael Caton-Jones' drama feature "Scandal" (1989) about the Profumo affair, a major scandal the British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, who had an extramarital affair with the 19-year-old model Christine Keeler in 1961. The cast also included John Hurt, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen and Joanne Whalley. There were strenuous efforts made by many politicians to prevent this movie from being made, even though the world-famous events it depicted had taken place more than a quarter of a century earlier. Sir Ian McKellen and Sir John Hurt received numerous letters from famous members of Parliament, asking them to decline their roles. Neither one did. McKellen replied politely to most of these letters; Hurt ignored them and told journalists that their senders were hypocrites who were merely anxious to prevent the truth from being told. David Suchet was offered the role of Profumo, but turned it down. This movie narrowly escaped an X rating in the U.S. because of some questionable footage during the Cliveden House orgy scene. Closer scrutiny revealed that two extras were having real sex on a piano in one of the background scenes. Even though the images were blurry, the scene had to be trimmed for all general releases to avoid the restrictive rating. Ironically, the supposedly "complete and uncut" 114-minute version that was edited to avoid an X-rating does not include an early scene where the sleazy nightclub owner Percy Murray bullies Christine into giving him oral sex in his office. Joanne Whalley's husband at the time, Val Kilmer objected to his wife doing the nude scene. A body double was hried for the scene. When Joanne arrived on-set, she wasn't happy with how the double looked. So Joanne ended up doing the nude scene herself.

Ekland's later career has mainly consisted of stage and television, with her last feature film role being in "The Children" (1990), alongside Ben Kingsley, Kim Novak and Geraldine Chaplin. Britt Ekland guest-starred on various television series, including an appearance on the popular TV series "Superboy", playing an alien disguised as Superboy's biological mother, during the show's second season in 1990. She appeared on stage as a cast member in "Cinderella" at the Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, in December 1999 and January 2000. She also appeared in "Grumpy Old Women Live" and participated in the Swedish reality show "Stjärnorna på slottet" (The stars at the castle) along with Peter Stormare, Arja Saijonmaa, Jan Malmsjö, and Magnus Härenstam. In December 2007 and January 2008, she starred again in "Cinderella" at the Wyvern Theatre, Swindon. She appeared as a guest on the British daytime television show "Loose Women", in January 2008. From December 2008 to January 2009, Ekland starred in "Cinderella" at the Shaw Theatre in London. In 2009 and 2010, she played the Fairy Godmother in "Cinderella" at Princess Theatre, Torquay. In December 2010, she starred as the 'Fairy Pea Pod' in "Jack and the Beanstalk" at the Kings Theatre, Southsea.

In 2010, Ekland took part in the reality TV show "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!", where she was the fourth celebrity to be voted off. She starred in further pantomimes at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, in 2011 and 2012. In 2018 she participated in "Let's Dance" broadcast on TV4. She was the first to be eliminated. In 2020, Ekland appeared in Season 4 of BBC TV's "The Real Marigold Hotel". Also in 2020, she toured the country in a production of "The Cat and the Canary". The production halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it resumed touring in late 2021.

Ekland became famous overnight as a result of her 1964 whirlwind romance and marriage to English actor and comedian Peter Sellers, who proposed after seeing her photograph in the paper and then meeting her in London. She stood by him after he suffered a series of heart attacks shortly after their marriage. In January 1965, they had a daughter. The couple made three films together, before divorcing in 1968 on the grounds of cruelty by Sellers. In June 1973, Ekland had a son with record producer Lou Adler. She also had a much publicised romance with rock star Rod Stewart. They were introduced in 1975 by Joan Collins and lived together for more than two years, with Ekland giving up her career to focus on their relationship. From 1979 to 1981, she dated and became engaged to singer Phil Lewis of the groups Girl and L.A. Guns. In 1984, at age 42, she married Stray Cats drummer Slim Jim Phantom, who was 23. They had a son in 1988. They divorced in 1992.

In 1980, Ekland's best-selling autobiography, "True Britt", was published. Ekland published a beauty and fitness book, "Sensual Beauty: How to Achieve It" (1984), followed by a fitness video in 1992.

30. Luigina Rocchi

Actress | Cannibal Holocaust

Luigina Rocchi is known for Cannibal Holocaust (1980), Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1983) and Getting Even (1989).

(Italy)

Explicit sex in "Il fiore delle mille e una notte" also know as "Arabian Nights" (1974)
Explicit sex in "Dolce... calda Lisa" also know as "Sweet Hot Lisa" (1980).

Luigina Rocchi is an Italian actress sometimes credited as Claudia Rocchi or Marina Rocchi, also known by the pseudonym Deborah Keith. Her acting career developed from the mid-seventies to the end of the eighties.

Her film debut took place in the 1974 film "Arabian Nights", directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, which won the Special Jury Grand Prix at the 27th Cannes Film Festival. It received an Italian censorship on release. This film is the final entry in director Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life", following "The Decameron" (1971) and "The Canterbury Tales" (1972). According to Pasolini during an interview in italian Playboy, september 1973, Barbara Grandi, who plays a girl prisoner of the demon, was 13 years-old during filming. In the film she appeared full nude, but in the sex scene she had with Alberto Argentino, an older body double replaced her. The film was cut for UK cinema with heavy edits to all shots of genital nudity but passed completely intact by the BBFC in 2001. The 1990 Water Bearer Films video release (WBF 8001) is marked "Original Uncut Version" with a runtime of 133 min. It is rated X.

She was not seen on screen again before 1978 in Sergio Martino's cannibal exploitation movie "La montagna del dio cannibale" also known as "Slave of the Cannibal God", in which she bodypainted by hand the full naked star Ursula Andress. The film was banned in the UK until 2001 mostly for its very real animal violence. The theatrical version was cut to remove all the footage of animal violence in it and the 2001 Vipco DVD version, now re-titled "The Mountain of the Cannibal God", featured a longer and more complete U.S. print, although a further two minutes and six seconds were cut by the BBFC to remove genuine footage of a snake fighting a bird and a snake killing and eating a live monkey. The U.S. Anchor Bay DVD version is uncut and includes four minutes of previously unseen rape, bestiality and masturbation scenes as added extras. It also restores the explicit castration scene to the film. The U.S. DVD version titled "Slave of the Cannibal God" is almost uncut. Only the castration scene is very slightly cut.

That same year, she could be seen naked again in Mariano Laurenti's sex comedy "La liceale nella classe dei ripetenti" also known as "The Highschool Girl Repeating Class" (1978), starring Gloria Guida. In 1980, she was cast in yet another cannibal flick, Ruggero Deodato's "Cannibal Holocaust" (1980), starring Robert Kerman and Francesca Ciardi. The iconic poster image for the film shows a native girl impaled on a stick. According to Ruggero Deodato, the character of the impaled native woman was played by a 'non-actress' Brazilian girl. Some film sites actually attribute the character to Italian actress Luigina Rocchi. That same year, she participated in the Spanish film "Despido improcente" (1980) by director Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent and she was the main protagonist of Adriano Tagliavia's drama "Dolce... Calda Lisa" (1980), alongside Annj Goren, a movie involving real sex scenes.

In 1982, she had a small role in the Marco Vicario comedy "Scusa se è poco", starring Ugo Tognazzi and Monica Vitti. The following year, she played a supporting role in the prehistoric fantasy "Il mondo di Yor" also known as "Yor: The Hunter from the Future" (1983), starring Reb Brown and Corinne Cléry. ''Yor'' was subsequently broadcasted as a mini-series in Italy using a lot of footage that never made it to the theatrical release.

She retired from acting at the end of the eighties with a last role in Leandro Lucchetti's low budget action movie "La vendetta" (1989), in which she was credited as Deborah Keith.

31. Sylvie Matton

Actress | La lumière des étoiles mortes

Sylvie Matton was born on December 11, 1953 in Paris, France. She is an actress and writer, known for La lumière des étoiles mortes (1994), Spermula (1976) and The Song of Roland (1978). She was previously married to Charles Matton.

(France)

Explicit sex in "La Bonzesse" also know as "The Priestess" (1974)

She was 21 at the time of filming.

"La Bonzesse" received an Italian censorship in 1977. She was also a writer and journalist. She was married to French painter/sculptor Charles Matton with whom she co-writed the movies "La lumière des étoiles mortes" also know as "The Light from Dead Stars" (1994) and "Rembrandt" (1999), which received numerous accolades from the film industry. In 1998, she wrote the book "Moi, la Putain de Rembrandt", which was translated in 17 languages.

32. Jenny Arasse

Actress | Aux frontières du possible

Jenny Arasse was born on August 30, 1948 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. She is an actress and writer, known for Aux frontières du possible (1971), La brigade des maléfices (1970) and Chère Louise (1972).

(France)

Explicit sex in "L'ombre d'une chance" also know as "Shadow of a Chance" (1974)

She was 25 at the time of filming.

She was born in Québec but she is a French national. She was an English teacher at the prestigious Sorbonne University in Paris before becoming a full-time actress. She is the daughter of painter Gerda Sutton.

33. Dagmar Hedrich

Actress | Magdalena, vom Teufel besessen

Dagmar Hedrich was born on June 25, 1935. She is an actress, known for The Devil's Female (1974) and Férias No Sul (1967).

Explicit nudity in "Magdalena, vom Teufel besessen" also known as "The Devil's Female" (1974)

She was 38 at the time of filming.

In her second and last movie, Dagmar Hedrich was the lead actress in Walter Boos' horror movie "Magdalena, vom Teufel besessen" also known as "The Devil's Female" (1974), a role involving graphic nude scenes, opposite Rudolf Schündler, Elisabeth Volkmann, Werner Bruhns, Eva Kinsky, Michael Hinz and Peter Martin Urtel. This is the only horror movie by a director who otherwise worked entirely in German softcore films such as the "Schoolgirl Report" series. In 1975, the film was released on VHS. Most subsequent releases in other countries have been re-cut to running times under 90 minutes. It was also released in a very good super 8mm version, titled differently for the West German and the Austrian markets. The German and Austrian Super 8-Version has all together (2 parts) a runtime of 31:37 minutes, much shorter than the cinema release.

34. Carole Laure

Actress | Les fils de Marie

Before she became an actress Carole Laure was a teacher. She was born on August 5, 1950 in Montreal (Québec) Canada. The profession she has chosen did not give her any satisfaction. She met some young Canadian film makers, that resulted in her first appearance as an actress, age twenty, in Mon ...

(Canada)

Explicit sex in "Sweet Movie" (1974)
Explicit sex in "La tête de Normande St-Onge" (1975)
Explicit sex in "L'Ange et la Femme" also know as "The Angel and the Woman" (1977)

She was respectively 26, 27 and 29 at the time of filming.

Carole Laure quit "Sweet Movie" during filming. She said Dusan Makavejev asked her to do things no human being should do. The movie was banned in the UK and censored in Italy. When "La tête de Normande St-Onge" was released, Canadian magazines wrote Carole Laure performed the most graphic sex scene in mainstream cinema. Gilles Carle, the director of "L'ange et la femme", was Carole Laure's boyfriend at the time of filming. He wanted there to be no doubt that his girlfriend had actually been penetrated in front of camera by the lead actor Lewis Furey for the sake of art. The two actors fell in love during filming, moved in together and later got married. She also had a decent career as a singer with 7 albums.

35. Anna Prucnal

Actress | Der fliegende Holländer

Anna Prucnal was born on December 17, 1940 in Warsaw, Poland. She is a Polish actress in both cinema and theatre, as well as a singer. After her father, a surgeon, was killed by the Nazis during World War II, Anna and her sister were raised by their mother, who was of noble descent and related to ...

(Poland)

Explicit nudity in "Sweet Movie" (1974)

She was 34 at the time of filming.

She was exiled from Poland for doing this movie. Polish authorities deemed it to be pornographic and anticommunist. It was distributed uncut to Swedish theaters with an age restriction of only 15 years old. Her mother was of noble descent and related to the 18th-century King of Poland Stanisław Leszczyński. Anna studied piano and lyrical singing before taking on acting at the Studencki Teatr Satyryków in Warsaw. She moved to France in 1970 and embarked upon a theatrical career working with many important directors. She also entertained a career as a singer. Her album “Dream of West, Dream of East” gained worldwide recognition.

36. Susan Blakely

Actress | Rich Man, Poor Man

She continues to stand out in a crowd with her wholesome beauty, knock-out figure and dazzling smile. Ever-radiant TV and film resident Susan Blakely found success on several paths she chose for herself over the years -- first as a model, then as an award-winning actress, and as a jewelry designer....

(USA)

Explicit nudity in "Capone" (1975)

She was 27 at the time of filming.

Her nude open crotch shot is reportedly one of the first instances of such a thing for a leading actress in a mainstream Hollywood film. The British Film Board gave the film an X rating due to nudity and profanity. She did her own stunt falling down on the ground when her character gets shot. Daugther of a Colonel in the US Army, she was born in Germany where her father was stationed. She worked as a supermodel for the prestigious Ford Modeling Agency before becoming an actress. In 1976, she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for her role in "Rich Man, Poor Man".

37. Sandrine Battistella

Self | Numéro deux

(France)

Explicit sex in "Numéro Deux" also know as "Number Two" (1975).

38. Nadia Vasil

Actress | Les visiteurs

Nadia Vasil is known for The Visitors (1993), That Most Important Thing: Love (1975) and France société anonyme (1974).

Explicit nudity in "L'Important c'est d'aimer" also know as "That Most Important Thing: Love" (1975).

39. Myriam Mézières

Actress | Fleurs de sang

Myriam Mézières was born on September 19, 1951 in Paris, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Fleurs de sang (2002), A Flame in My Heart (1987) and Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976).

(France)

Explicit sex in "Change Pas De Main" also know as "Don't Change Hands" (1975)
Explicit nudity in "Une flamme dans mon cœur" also know as "A Flame in My Heart" (1987)
Explicit sex in "Le Journal de Lady M" also know as "The Diary of Lady M" (1993)

She was respectively 23, 35 and 41 at the time of filming.

Classified as an experimental essay, "Don't Change Hands" received an X certification for the hardcore content it includes. She is an actress, writer and singer.

40. Melanie Griffith

Actress | Working Girl

Melanie Griffith was born on August 9, 1957 in New York City, to then model/future actress Tippi Hedren and former child actor turned advertising executive Peter Griffith. Her parents' marriage ended when she was four years old and Tippi brought Melanie to Los Angeles to get a new start. Tippi ...

(USA)

Explicit nudity in "Night Moves" (1975)
Explicit nudity in in "Body Double" (1984)

She was respectively 17 and 27 at the time of filming.

A bright student, Melanie Griffith skipped a grade level and graduated at age 16. She is the daughter of fashion model and actress Tippi Hedren, one of the stars from the Golden Era of Hollywood. She was only 15 when she shared the screen with her mother in "The Harrad Experiment" (1973) on the set of which she began dating 22 year-old Don Johnson whom she married in 1976. They divorced only 6 months later. She appeared opposite her mother again in the exploitation movie "Roar" (1981) in which she portrayed the daughter of animal-keepers whose various wild animals turn on them. She was mauled by a lion and had to undergo facial reconstructive surgery. Her attack and injury is visible in the finished film. Melanie Griffith's drug and alcohol addictions temporarily stalled her career in the early 1980s but she made a comeback at age 26 with her role as a porno actress in the Brian De Palma thriller "Body Double" (1984). The film, although a box office flop, earned her the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. The following year, she had her first starring role opposite Jeff Daniels in "Something Wild" (1986). Her performance earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. She achieved mainstream success in the box-office hit Working Girl (1988) and won another Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy. After a complete rehabilitation from her addictions, she reconnected with Don Johnson. They remarried in 1989 and gave birth to her second child, actress Dakota Johnson. They separated in 1994, reconciled later that year, but separated again in May 1995, eventually divorcing in 1996. She co-starred with Antonio Banderas in the comedy "Two Much" (1996). They began a relationship during the film's production, and were married later that year. In 2000, she returned to drug rehabilitation for treatment of a painkiller addiction. In 2014, Griffith and Banderas released a statement announcing their divorce.

41. Marion Eaton

Actress | Thundercrack!

Marion Eaton was born on March 15, 1932 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress and writer. She was married to Donald Jean Eaton and Jean Donald Eaton. She died on April 6, 2011 in Mill Valley, California, USA.

(USA)

Explicit sex in "Thundercrack!" (1975)

She was 43 at the time of filming.

Marion Eaton's film debut. She was a renowned stage actress before that. She was interrupted by the director during her audition. He told her she had the part and he wouldn't be seeing anyone else for the role. It was the first X-rated movie screened at Filmex, the Los Angeles Film Festival where it became (in)famous for the number of people who walked out before the end. The film was banned in many countries because of its graphic sex and depravation.

42. Lisbeth Hummel

Actress | Le diaboliche

Lisbeth Hummel was born in 1952 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is an actress, known for Le diaboliche (1987), L'aigle et la colombe (1977) and Dolly il sesso biondo (1979).

(Denmark)

Explicit sex in "La Bête" also know as "The Beast" (1975)

She was 23 at the time of filming.

The film was rejected for UK cinema in 1978. It was screened uncut for cinema and video in 2001. She was also fully naked in "La bella e la bestia" (1977), a movie directed by her husband Luigi Russo depicting nymphomania, bestiality, and masochism. She is now working as an artist.

43. Pascale Rivault

Actress | Lady Chatterley's Lover

Pascale Rivault was born on October 13, 1950. She is an actress and production manager, known for Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981), Die unfreiwilligen Reisen des Moritz August Benjowski (1975) and Five Women for the Killer (1974).

(France)

Explicit sex in "La Bête" also know as "The Beast" (1975)

She was 25 at the time of filming.

She had her career debut at age 20 in "Point de chute" also known as "Falling Point" (1970), a movie directed by Robert Hossein, her then boyfriend. She later got married to French singer Eric Charden.

44. Karin Schubert

Actress | The Panther Squad

Karin Schubert was born on November 26, 1944 in Hamburg, Germany. She is an actress, known for The Panther Squad (1984).

(Germany)

Explicit sex in "Il pavone nero" also known as "Voodoo Sexy" (1975)
Explicit sex in "Emanuelle Nera" also known "Black Emanuelle" (1975)
Explicit nudity in "Emanuelle - Perché violenza alle donne?" also known "Emanuelle Around the World) (1977)
Explicit sex in "Une femme spéciale" also known as "A Very Special Woman" (1979)
Explicit nudity in "Hanna D. - La ragazza del Vondel Park" also known as "Hanna D.: The Girl from Vondel Park" (1984)

She was respectively 31, 33, 35 and 40 at the time of filming.

Karin Schubert is a German model and actress. She made her film debut at the end of the 1960s. After graduating as an administrative assistant, Karin Schubert turned to modeling. She posed for various magazines and shot commercials, notably representing Peroni beers. She married a representative of the Opel brand with whom she had a son. Courted by the cinema, she moved to Italy. At the start of her acting career, Karin Schubert appeared in sexy supporting roles in Italy and Germany. She performed under the direction of Italian sexy comedy specialists such as Marco Vicario in "Il prete sposato" (1970) with Barbara Bouchet, Mariano Laurenti in "Satiricosissimo" (1970) with Edwige Fenech, and Brunello Rondi in "Racconti proibiti... di niente vestiti" (1971) with Barbara Bouchet, Janet Agren and Tina Aumont, a role including full frontal nudity. But Karin Schubert knows her first critical success with her role in the spaghetti western "Vamos a matar, compañeros" also known as "Compañeros" (1970), starring Franco Nero. She was promised to a very successfull international career when her outstanding beauty came under the spotlight as the Queen of Spain in Gérard Oury's cult film "La Folie des Grandeurs" also known as "Delusions of Grandeur" (1971), starring legendary actors Louis de Funès and Yves Montand. In 1972, she shared the screen with Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Joey Heatherton and Sybil Danning in "Bluebeard". Three versions of this movie were made; a sexploitation version for Germany, Scandanavia and Japan; a normal version for the U.S., England, France and Italy; and a puritan version for Mid-Eastern countries, South Korea and Spain. A topless photo of Joey Heatherton taken during filming was used on the cover of her 1972 music album when it was re-released in 2004. She said in an interview: "That was done by the great Harry Langdon, Jr.. I guess it was taken between scenes on the set. Harry said 'Come on, you opened your robe for the movie, can I have a shot?' He told me he was not going to do anything with it and years later, surprise! The people at the label told me about the shot. I saw it and it is pretty so I told them it was perfect for the cover." Joey Heatherton agreed to be nude to earn her role, but the film flopped and it ended up damaging her career on and off the screen. 1972 was a very prolific year for Karin Schubert as she also played in Yves Boisset's thriller "L'attentat", starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Roy Scheider, Michel Piccoli, Michel Bouquet and Gian Maria Volontè. Despite her new status, Karin Schubert did not abandon eroticism. The same year, she reunited with Mariano Laurenti who made her co-star with Edwige Fenech in the Italian sex comedy "Quel gran pezzo della Ubalda tutta nuda e tutta calda" also known as "Ubalda, All Naked and Warm". She then started to appear in adventure films, especially with Italian actor George Eastman. The first film of this kind was a Three Musketeers / spaghetti western adaptation, "Tutti per uno...botte per tutti" also known as "The Three Musketeers of the West" (1973). She also appeared in the crime drama "Lo sgarbo" also known as "Rudeness" (1975), in which she had fully nude scenes. Her career started to take a turn in 1975 when she performed graphic sex scenes in the hit erotic film "Emanuelle Nera" also known as "Black Emanuelle", starring Laura Gemser, which drew the attention of director Joe d'Amato, a director (in)famous for filming sleazy exploitation films. She began to take part in his erotic films including "Emanuelle - Perché violenza alle donne?" also known as "Emanuelle Around the World" (1977) opposite Laura Gemser. Actress Kristine DeBell is featured late in the film. She is the beauty pagent winner who gets raped on the docks of New York by a group of lecherous men. DeBell has no spoken lines but she does appear nude. When released in the UK on VHS in the 80's under the title "Confessions of Emanuelle", the film was cut by an astonishing 16 minutes. In 1978, Karin Schubert played a Russian spy in "Missile X - Geheimauftrag Neutronenbombe" also known as "Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident" opposite iconic actors Peter Graves and Curd Jürgens. There are some known examples of pornographic actresses who succesfully made the transition to mainstream cinema. Tragically, Karin Schubert did it the other way round. Gradually losing demand as an actress in the mid-80s, she moved to Spain, but also failed to establish herself there. Her personal problems also contributed to her career problems: her marriage broke down and her son became addicted to drugs, becoming so out of control that his mother became the target of his violent outbursts. To earn money for his treatment, Schubert started posing for pornographic magazines. She appears in magazines like Men and Le Ore, often alongside Paola Senatore, another fallen icon of Italian sexy cinema. In 1985 at the age of 40, when the money ran out, she also began starring in hardcore pornographic films. Using her notoriety as leverage, she signed a contract with a film company that paid her an annual salary of 180,000 German marks. In 1994, 50-year-old Schubert left pornography, having starred in 24 films of this genre. She explains in an interview with "Corriere della sera" that she agreed to shoot pornographic films in order to be able to help her drug addict son financially. She revealed in the television program "Il Fatto" that she had been sexually abused by her father when she was eleven years old. That same year she tried to commit suicide by taking barbiturates with vodka, but was rescued by neighbours. Conscious of having been exploited, the actress explains her gesture with these words: “I have no family, no friends, no money, no future. I wanted to die because I failed everything. For everyone, I'm a whore". Two years later, neighbours found her unresponsive in her car, having attempted suicide a second time by carbon monoxide poisoning. She was committed to a psychiatric hospital. In 2015, a fictionalized biography recounts her entire life and career, "Pornification" by Jean-Luc Marret.

45. Jessica Harper

Actress | Suspiria

American actress-author-composer Jessica Harper was born on October 10, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, to Eleanor (Emery), a writer, and Paul Church Harper, Jr., a painter who was chairman of the Needham Harper Worldwide advertising agency in NY. Jessica launched her professional acting career soon ...

(USA)

Explicit nudity in "Inserts" (1975)

She was 26 at the time of filming.

Due to its controversial adult themes and sexual content, this film was often compared at the time of its release to Bernardo Bertolucci's "Ultimo tango a Parigi". Jessica Harper was bothered by the nude scenes she was required to do at first but she said her co-star Richard Dreyfuss was comforting. Even though 18 minutes were cut from the US release apparently, no nudity was removed. The uncut version debuted in Britain. It was the first big major role in a cinema movie for actor Bob Hoskins. Jessica Harper is an actress and singer. She wrote 11 books for children and made 7 albums of songs for children. She is best known for her role in Dario Argento's cult classic "Suspiria" (1977). She married Thomas Edgar Rothman, a top executive at Sony Pictures, formerly of 20th Century Fox.

46. Dolores McDonough

Actress | Les galettes de Pont-Aven

Dolores McDonough is known for Cookies (1975) and Éclair au chocolat (1979).

(Canada)

Explicit nudity in "Les Galettes De Pont-Aven" also known as "Cookies" (1975).

Dolores McDonough is a Canadian model, actress and singer. She played in "Les galettes de Pont-Aven" also known as "Cookies" (1975) opposite Jean-Pierre Marielle and Jeanne Goupil. This lighthearted drama tells about a wannabe painter, bored with his very banal and eventless life, who has a craving for women's buttocks. Director Joël Séria travelled to Quebec to recruit Dolores McDonough. She was to appear naked in a scene. On the day of the shoot, not having seen her in her simplest form yet, he asked his wife Jeanne Goupil to check her up, especially her backside. She obliged and gave it the OK.

47. Teresa Ann Savoy

Actress | Caligola

Teresa Ann Savoy was born on July 18, 1955 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Caligula (1979), Madam Kitty (1976) and Bambina (1974). She died on January 9, 2017 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.

(United Kingdom)

Explicit nudity in "Salon Kitty" (1976)
Explicit nudity in "Caligola" also know as "Caligula" (1979)

She was respectively 21 and 24 at the time of filming.

"Salon Kitty" received an Italian censorship on release. In the English version of the director's cut, the restored footage is in Italian because these scenes were not included in the censored English version and only the Italian soundtrack exists. Dame Helen Mirren described "Caligula" as "an irresistible mix of art and genitals". Unlike the many actors who regretted their involvement with the film, Mirren has remained proud of her role in it. At the time, this movie was the most expensive independent movie ever made. Maria Schneider was originally cast to play Drusilla and started shooting some scenes but she felt disturbed by the graphic sex scenes and stormed out of the set. She was replaced by Teresa Ann Savoy. Peter O'Toole and Sir John Gielgud claimed to have been aware of mass nudity but were unaware that producer Bob Guccione inserted hardcore sex and graphic violence sequences in the movie. Film critic Roger Ebert admitted that "Caligula" was one of the few movies he ever walked out of. This movie was banned in Russia until 1993. It is still banned in Belarus to this day. It was cut by ten minutes by the British Board of Film Censors. It wasn't until 2008 that the uncut movie could be legally available in the U.K.. Several different versions of this movie have been circulated. The official "uncut" version runs two hours and thirty-six minutes. It was cut to two hours and three minutes by the Italian censors. Teresa Ann Savoy fled from home at 16 and lived in a hippie community in Sicily. She appeared in the Italian adult magazine Playmen at age 18 and quickly drew a lot of attention from the press. Her acting career began when film director Alberto Lattuada spotted her and gave her first role in the film "Le farò da padre" in 1974.

48. Ingrid Thulin

Actress | Smultronstället

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. ...

(Sweden)

Explicit nudity in "Salon Kitty" (1976)

She was 50 at the time of filming.

She was the daughter of a fisherman. She trained in ballet and was part of The Royal Dramatic Theatre ("Dramaten") in 1948. One of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman's favourite actresses, she became one the most famous Swedish actresses, personifying the cold beauty from the North. She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Brink of Life" (1958). In 1964, she won an award for Best Actress at the Guldbagge Award, an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony, for her performance in "Tystnaden" also known as "The Silence" (1963). She was the head of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival in 1980. She was married to Harry Schein, the founder of the Swedish Film Institute.

49. Olga Karlatos

Actress | Purple Rain

Olga Karlatos was born on April 20, 1945 in Athens, Greece. She is an actress, known for Purple Rain (1984), Once Upon a Time in America (1984) and Zombie (1979). She was previously married to Arthur Rankin Jr. and Nikos Papatakis.

(Greece)

Explicit nudity in "Gloria Mundi" also know as "In Hell" (1976)

She was 31 at the time of filming.

Director Nikos Papatakis said he wanted to make this film for his wife, leading actress Olga Karlatos, with whom he was separating, "As a parting gift". Olga Karlatos revealed that most of the torture scenes in the film were not faked. "Although I didn't go to the same extremes as my character, I did experiment with electrocution to familiarize myself with the feeling," she said, adding that "The lit cigarette was really pressed against my skin so the pain was real." Between the end of the sixties and the early seventies, Karlatos had a short career as a singer, recording an EP and some singles in French and Italian. In 2007, Karlatos graduated from Kent University with a law degree and she became a lawyer in Bermuda in 2010.

50. Kristine DeBell

Actress | Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy

Kristine was raised on a small self-sufficient farm in upstate New York. As a young girl, she took ballet and studied voice. At 14, she began modeling for Macy's. During her freshman year of high school, Kristine auditioned for and won the part of Marta in the musical The Sound Of Music. The ...

(USA)

Explicit sex in "Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy" (1976).

She was 21 at the time of filming.

Kristine DeBell's acting debut. She said in an interview years later that she had no idea that she auditioned for an erotic movie. She thought it was going to be an adorable family version of Alice in Wonderland. But when she showed up on set, they showed her the script and she realized she'd be totally naked for most of the movie. When asked by the interviewer if she was ever uncomfortable with her nude scenes, she said not at all. In fact she couldn't believe they were paying her just to get naked. The scene of Kristine De Bell performing oral sex was a privately shot footage of De Bell performing oral on producer Bill Osco who convinced her that it was necessary for the film but it did not appear in the original theatrical version. DeBell began her career as a fashion model with Ford Models. She was on the April 1976 cover of Playboy as a promotional stunt for "Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy". She also appeared in Playboy of August 1976. Subsequently, she moved to mainstream film and television, appearing in various television series through the early 1980s. When the re-edited hardcore version of "Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy" was released, she lost all credit in the mainstream film industry.

51. Eiko Matsuda

Actress | Ai no korîda

Eiko Matsuda was born on May 18, 1952 in Yokohama, Japan. She was an actress, known for In the Realm of the Senses (1976), Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (1970) and Tatto of the Jack (1970). She died on March 9, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan.

(Japan)

Explicit sex in "Ai no korida" also know as "In the Realm of the Senses" (1976)

She was 24 at the time of filming.

This film is based on the true story of Sada Abe, who served a five-year sentence in prison for murder and mutilation of a corpse. While it was not the first mainstream movie to feature scenes of fellatio and an erect penis, it was the first art-house film to do so. None of the sex scenes in the film are faked, everything is unsimulated. Shot in Japan, the film had to be shipped to France for development, due to Japan's strict censorship policies. Depictions of genitalia must be censored in Japan. It still holds the record for most screenings at the Cannes Film Festival to this day. Demand was so great, 13 screenings were arranged. Director Nagisa Ōshima was charged with obscenity in Japan but was acquitted after a four-year courtcase. Actress Eiko Matsuda was the target of much hostility from the public. She eventually decided to move to France and abandoned her acting career, as she couldn't land any more roles. Her male co-star, Tatsuya Fuji, a long established mainstream actor, eventually regained his career after a period of two years without any job offers. After the German premiere at the "Berlinale" the movie was confiscated as suspected pornography. However, 18 months later a German federal court permitted release in cinema theatres totally uncut. The film was not submitted for British classification until 1989. It was finally passed uncut in UK cinemas in 1991. The film is still censored in Japan. Japanese critics for Kinema Junpo have declared this film as one of the all time greatest films ever made.

52. Aoi Nakajima

Actress | Hihon: sode to sode

Aoi Nakajima was born on September 20, 1945 in Kumamoto, Japan. She was an actress. She died on May 16, 1991 in Japan.

(Japan)

Explicit sex in "Ai no korida" also know as "In the Realm of the Senses" (1976)

She was 31 at the time of filming.

53. Stefania Casini

Actress | Suspiria

After graduating in Architecture, Stefania began a career in acting and worked with Pietro Germi, Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Greenaway and Dario Argento. She moved to New York in the late 1970s, where she acted in Andy Warhol's 'Bad'. While in New York she decided to move behind the camera, and ...

(Italy)

Explicit sex in "Novecento" also know as "1900" (1976)
Explicit nudity in "Ammazzare il tempo" (1979)

She was respectively 28 and 30 at the time of filming.

She said about her nude scenes in "1900" with Gérard Depardieu and Robert De Niro "I have never had problems with modesty. I posed for Playboy Italy. My naked body is like a flower. A beautiful thing, not to be covered. It was the two boys who had more problems. It is more difficult for a man to show his genitals. It is always a question of size." The original uncut version is five hours and seventeen minutes long, and features additional dramatic scenes, actual animal killings and explicit sex scenes. Bernardo Bertolucci cut the three and a half hour version that was released internationally to appease the studios and financiers who wanted to an even shorter version. He said of this film: "At first we planned it as six episodes for television but we felt that it belonged on the large screen for political, social, and narrative reasons." At the time this movie was released, it was the most expensive and ambitious Italian movie ever made. Stefania Sandrelli replaced Maria Schneider for the role of a progressive schoolteacher after the fall out between Schneider and Bertolucci since "Ultimo tango a Parigi".

54. Brigitte Fossey

Actress | Jeux interdits

This lovely, docile, sensitive-appearing blonde French leading lady started impressively in films at age 6, making a most notable debut in René Clément's Forbidden Games (1952). She abandoned acting a few years later for schooling and a normal upbringing. After a brief career as an interpreter and ...

(France)

Explicit nudity in "Calmos" (1976)

She was 30 at the time of filming.

Brigitte Fossey was a child actress. She was only 5 years old when she was cast to star in the Academy Award winning "Jeux interdits" also know as "Forbidden Games" in 1952. She studied piano and dance. She has a long standing acting career. She was one of the most prominent French actresses in the 70s and the 80s. She worked with some of the biggest names of the film industry; Édouard Molinaro, Michel Deville, Bertrand Blier, Claude Lelouch, Benoît Jacquot, Jean-Charles Tacchella, Claude Sautet, François Truffaut. She was a member of the jury at the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival in 1982.

55. Angela Scoular

Actress | On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Angela Scoular was born on November 8, 1945 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Casino Royale (1967) and You Rang, M'Lord? (1988). She was married to Leslie Phillips. She died on April 11, 2011 in Maida Vale, London, England, UK.

(United Kingdom)

Explicit nudity in "Adventures of a Taxi Driver" (1976)

She was 31 at the time of filming.

Angela Scoular is a Bond girl. She appeared in two James Bond films; "Casino Royale" (1967) & "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969). She was a niece of actress Margaret Johnston, an Australian actress best known for her stage performances. She married actor Leslie Phillips in 1982. Scoular was an alcoholic. She had depression and anxiety about debts and suffered from anorexia. She attempted suicide in 1992.

56. Mink Stole

Actress | Serial Mom

Part of the original motley crew of cast players in underground shock master John Waters' bare-bones 8mm, 16mm and 35mm cult perversions during the late 60s and early 70s, Mink Stole would remain a thoroughly offbeat, outrageous presence in counterculture films for five decades.

She was born with ...

(USA)

Explicit nudity in "Desperate Living" (1977)

She was 30 at the time of filming.

Mink Stole, is an American actress and signer. She was born into a large Roman Catholic family. She has nine siblings, including children's-book author Ellen Stoll Walsh and sculptor George Stoll. Her father died was she was 8. Her mother remarried twice, resulting in an extensive step-family.

She began her career working for director John Waters, and has appeared in all of his feature films to date, a distinction shared only with Mary Vivian Pearce. Her extensive work with Waters has made her one of the Dreamlanders, Waters' ensemble of regular cast and crew members. Her film career began when she was 19 as a party guest in Waters' short film "Roman Candles" (1967). In 1977, she played in the John Waters trashy X-rated movie "Desperate Living". Production designer Vincent Peranio cooked a real rat so that it could be "eaten" during the opening titles. Newspapers refused to run the original ad for this film, a photo of a cooked rat on a plate. Actress Susan Lowe who played "Mole McHenry" in the movie is actually very beautiful. After changing her appearance to play the part, her children were horrified and it caused problems with her marriage. In Italy, the film was heavily dubbed, censored, and retitled "Punk Story." The film was rejected for a UK cinema release in 1977. It was finally released on video in 1990 after 4 seconds of cuts to edit an eyeball-gouging scene. In 1999, Stole appeared in the satirical lesbian film "But I'm A Cheerleader" alongside Natasha Lyonne. In April 2009, Stole connected with cult director Steve Balderson for "Stuck!", an homage to film noir women in prison dramas, co-starring Karen Black, Pleasant Gehman and Jane Wiedlin. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Boston Underground Film Festival in Cambridge following the East Coast Premiere. She once again co-starred with Natasha Lyonne in Joshua Grannell's "All About Evil" (2010).

Mink Stole lives in Baltimore and performs weddings as an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church. She is the lead singer of 'Mink Stole and Her Wonderful Band', of which musicians Kristian Hoffman, George Baby Woods, and Brian Grillo have been members.

57. Katia Tchenko

Actress | Ronin

Katia Tchenko was born on May 8, 1947 in Versailles, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France. She is an actress, known for Ronin (1998), Transporter 3 (2008) and Au théâtre ce soir (1966).

(France)

Explicit nudity in "La Stanza Del Vescovo" also know as "The Bishop's Bedroom" (1977)

She was 30 at the time of filming.

The film was censored on release. Katia Tchenko received a classical ballet and drama training. She started her career in musicals and cabaret. She lead the revue of the Folies Bergère in Paris. She is a film and stage actress. She has a career span of more than 50 years and played in more than 100 movies. In 2005, she was made Knight of the "Ordre national du Mérite", a distinction awarded by the French President for service rendered to the nation.

58. Olivia Pascal

Actress | Griechische Feigen

Olivia Pascal was born on May 26, 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.

(Germany)

Explicit nudity in "Vanessa" (1977)
Explicit nudity in "Sylvia im Reich der Wollust" also known as "The Joy of Flying" (1978)
Explicit nudity in "Die insel der tausend Freuden" also known as "Triangle of Venus" (1978)

She was respectively 20 and 21 at the time of filming.

She was working as a nurse when she was discovered by director Hubert Frank who cast her as the lead actress in "Vanessa", a German copycat of erotic box office hit "Emmanuelle". Although she started off as an actress in erotic films and sex comedies, she did the bulk of her career as a mainstream television actress. She was a regular in very popular German television series including "Tatort" (1980), "Derrick" (1984), "Die Schwarzwaldklinik" also known as "The Black Forest Hospital" (1986-1989), "SOKO München" also known as "SOKO 5113" (1988-2008), "Rosamunde Pilcher" (1996-2010) and "SOKO Kitzbühel" (2004).

59. Daniela Poggi

Actress | Viaggio d'amore

Daniela Poggi was born on October 17, 1954 in Savona, Liguria, Italy. She is an actress and director, known for Viaggio d'amore (1995), Incantesimo (1998) and St. Paul (2000).

(Italy)

Explicit nudity in "L'ultima orgia del III Reich" also know as "The Gestapo's Last Orgy" (1977)
Explicit nudity in "L'Ultimo Harem" also know as "Last Harem" (1981)

She was respectively 23 and 27 at the time of filming.

"L'ultima orgia del III Reich" was censored on release. It is still banned in the UK today. Daniela Poggi regrets having participated in this movie. "I was 20 years old, I was a model. My agency pushed me. Unfortunately, they added unexpected scenes and a monstrous title." Actor Tino Polenghi says that the movie was originally shot in a hardcore version. The hardcore sequences were removed from the film. Only his testimony and a few photos remain today. He said that Daniela Poggi did not take part in the hardcore scenes, unlike Antiniska Nemour who did not need to be prayed for. Daniela Poggi is a film and stage actress and television presenter. At a young age, she studied ballet. In 1978, she participated at the Sanremo Festival as a ballerina. She also started a career as a model and did a few commercials. Her breakthrough comes in 1979 thanks to her participation to the highly popular Rai Uno variety television show "La sberla". Poggi started her cinema career in Italian sexploitation movies, then from the late 80s, she switched to mainstream dramatic roles and became a TV presenter. She hosted the historic Rai Tre television program "Who has seen it?" from 2000 to 2004 and the program "Una notte con Zeus" in 2005. She was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 2001. She adopted a young Peruvian girl.

60. Glory Annen

Actress | Felicity

Glory Annen was born on September 5, 1952 in Kenora, Ontario, Canada. She was an actress, known for Felicity (1978), Supergirl (1984) and Prey (1977). She died on April 24, 2017 in London, England, UK.

(Canada)

Explicit nudity in "Felicity" (1978)

She was 26 at the time of filming.

The film was heavily influenced by both "Emmanuelle" (1974) and "Histoire d'O" also known as "The Story of O" (1975). The bicycle riding sequence was inspired by the films of David Hamilton. Unknown 26 year-old Canadian actress Glory Annen portrayed the 17 year-old lead character who had an English accent in this an Australian feature film. The Australian DVD release of the movie is the unrated director's cut version. Glory Annen attended the Victoria Composite High School of Performing Arts in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and at age 17 she emigrated to England to further her education at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1976. She also appeared in several English television series in the 1970s and had leading roles at the theatre. She was featured on television in many commercials and began working as a commercial casting director in 1982. She had a role in box-office hit "Supergirl" in 1984. She was also a cartoonist, artist and writer.

61. Nastassja Kinski

Actress | Tess

Nastassja Kinski was born Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski on January 24, 1961 in Berlin, Germany, the daughter of German actor Klaus Kinski. In 1976, she met director Roman Polanski, who urged her to study method acting with Lee Strasberg in the United States. Kinski starred in the Italian romantic ...

(Germany)

Explicit nudity in "Così come sei" also known as "Stay As You Are" (1978)
Explicit nudity in "Maladie d'amour" also known as "Malady of Love" (1987)

She was respectively 17 and 26 at the time of filming.

Daughter of actor Klaus Kinski who her sister Pola Kinski described as a scary authoritative and abusive father. Nastassja Kinski began working as a model as a teenager in Germany. Actress Lisa Kreuzer of the German New Wave helped get her the role of the mute Mignon in the Wim Wenders film "Falsche Bewegung" also know as "Wrong Move" (1975), in which she is seen topless at the age of only 13. She was only 14 when she next appeared in the British horror film "To the Devil a Daughter" (1976) in which her role included full frontal nudity scenes. When Kinski was aged 15, it was speculated that she was involved in a romantic relationship with director Roman Polanski, who was 43 at the time. Polanski confirmed the relationship in a 1994 interview. However, Kinski stated in an interview in The Guardian in 1999 that "There was only a flirtation. There could have been an affair, but there was not." In the late 1970s, Kinski was roommates with Demi Moore. In her 2019 memoir Inside Out, Moore wrote: "We know each other in a way that no one else could." Kinski had her worldwide breakthrough with "Stay As You Are". Asked about her nude scenes, she said she did them at the director's request. "He described the girl in the movie to me as being young with nothing to hide. She is in love and doesn't wear anything when she has breakfast and talks with her lover. All this made sense to me, so I said okay. It is part of the girl's character. I wasn't complexed about it, I wasn't even thinking if it was right or wrong. I saw my parents go about nude from the time I was a baby. That's how I grew up. I never did nude scenes because I thought it was cute." She then came to global prominence with her Golden Globe Award-winning performance as the title character in the Roman Polanski-directed film "Tess" (1979). In 1981, Richard Avedon photographed Nastassja Kinski with a Burmese python coiled around her nude body. The image, which first appeared in the October 1981 issue of US Vogue, was released as a poster and became a best-seller, further confirming her status as a sex symbol. From 1992 until 1995, Kinski lived with musician Quincy Jones. They had a daughter in 1993, a model known professionally today as Kenya Kinski-Jones.

62. Mireia Ros

Actress | La Moños

Mireia Ros was born on December 3, 1956 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress and director, known for La Moños (1996), El triunfo (2006) and Barcelona, abans que el temps ho esborri (2010).

(Spain)

Explicit nudity in "Jill" (1978)

She was 22 at the time of filming. Her debut as an actress.

She is an established actress, producer and director of cinema, theater and television. At the end of the 70s, she was one of the most visible faces both on screen and in magazines in Spain during the post Franco era. From that moment on, her acting career followed an impressive rise with multiple works on the big screen and in television series. Since the mid-90s, she has gained recognition as a director with movies "La Moños" (1996) and "El triunfo" (2006) receiving numerous accolades from the film industry. In 2012, she was cast in the third opus of Spanish horror franchise [Rec]³: Génesis.

63. Marina Pierro

Actress | Docteur Jekyll et les femmes

Marina Pierro was born on October 9, 1956 in Boscotrecase, Campania, Italy. She is an actress and director, known for The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981), The Living Dead Girl (1982) and Softly from Paris (1986).

(Italy)

Explicit nudity in "Interno di un convento" also know as "Behind Convent Walls" (1978)
Explicit sex in "Les héroïnes du mal" also know as "Immoral Women" (1979)
Explicit nudity in "Ars amandi" also know as "The Art of Love" (1983)

She was respectively 22, 23 and 27 at the time of filming.

"Interno di un convento" was cut by 24 seconds for cinema release in the UK. The uncut version was released in 2003. Marina Pierro is an actress, model, writer and film director. She followed photography and theatre courses, studied French, had interests in astrology, esotericism and psychoanalysis, and maintained a passion for cinema and acting. She performed in theatre while studying drawing and painting. She began as a fashion model for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar and Vogue Italia. Her acting career started in 1976 when she was introduced to Luchino Visconti who was looking for a young girl to play a role in "L'Innocente" also known as "The Innocent". She subsequently appeared on the cover of Cinema d'Oggi, described as "The latest cinematographic discovery by Luchino Visconti." She appeared in Dario Argento's supernatural horror film "Suspiria" (1977) as an uncredited extra before her first prominent role, as the self-styled stigmatic nun Sister Veronica in Walerian Borowczyk's 1978 film "Interno di un Convento", based upon Stendhal's "Promenades dans Rome" (1829). Pierro recalled: "Walerian Borowczyk noticed a picture of me in the actors’ yearbook and he asked to meet me. I was surprised. This was the director everyone was talking about for the scandal caused by his films, such as "The Beast", which I had actually seen a while before, and which had made a strong impression on me for the beauty of the cinematography, the framing and its daring style. But most of all, I was impressed by the surreal dimension of the film... I had a strong interest in Surrealism, in poetry and painting. Our first meeting in itself was quite surreal. He was speaking Italian, I was speaking French. He was walking around me while asking me questions. For example, if I had attended a theatre academy. I said I had been on set with Visconti for one month in my very first film role, and that was it. And he said “That's more than enough.” Then we talked almost entirely about painting, about the light in paintings by Vermeer and Turner. And then we talked about Rimbaud, Lautréamont. Then he asked me to wear a nun's veil while he continued walking around me. And then suddenly he said, “Do you know, you are incredibly photogenic?” I immediately said “Yes, I know.” He laughed and told me that I would play Sister Veronica. Maybe it was at that moment that I became his muse. Of course I wasn't aware of it because things were happening so fast that it was hard for me to stop and think for a second. Only afterwards did I think back to that feeling, like an electric shock, a wave that connected us in a very particular way, creating an artistic collaboration that lasted around ten years over six films. The shooting of "Behind Convent Walls" was for me fundamental and illuminating, in two respects. First of all, as an actress. Walerian left some freedom to the actors, of course within the range of the character, and he accepted suggestions. At the same time, he expected the actor to guess what he wanted, and this was undoubtedly more complex, as it entailed maximum attention and maximum speed of execution. To me, this was a revelation because that method perfectly matched me instinct to express myself in the immediacy of a moment. The second aspect was also important. The awareness that working in film was full of never-ending possibilities of expression. Being on the set of a film by Walerian was not only fascinating but truly educational, just like a film school." Working again with Borowczyk, Pierro played the Renaissance artist Raphael's treacherous mistress Margherita Luti in "Margherita", the first episode of the 1979 triptych anthology film "Immoral Women", a quasi-sequel to Borowczyk's 1973 anthology film "Immoral Tales". Pierro spends most of her time in "Immoral Women" either naked or dressed in transparent veils and engaged in graphic sex scenes. Pierro later commented "I am as shy as anyone. No more, no less. However, I think you have to push yourself and put yourself in different situations to test your own limits. But I still find these scenes a little embarrassing... There are definitely some things I have in common with this character. She wants some of the good things in life and so she acts with a sort of mixture of naivete and deceit in order to get them. But I'm not a femme fatale." "Immoral Women" drew mixed to negative reviews, although Marina Pierro's performance received praise. For L'Express, Michel Braudeau wrote "Walerian Borowczyk imagines in his own fashion the death of Raphael in the features of his model Margherita Luti. It must be said that if death has the eyes of Marina Pierro, we would go more readily to the appointment. Beautiful indeed, Pierro has the magnificent indifference and the cold sensuality of a heroine of Stendhal's Italian Chroniques." Describing "Immoral Women" as "a surreal masterpiece and possibly Borowczyk's finest work" in the online film journal Senses of Cinema in 2005, Scott Murray wrote, "Having now replaced Ligia Branice as the director's muse, Marina Pierro glows in her finest performance." For Redeemer magazine, Peter Tombs wrote in 1993 "Marina Pierro is an extraordinary actress who combines a sullen sensuality with an ethereal, almost nervous intensity. Her white skin, jet black hair and hypnotic eyes have made her an unforgettable presence in five films from the Polish born director Walerian Borowczyk".

64. Danila Trebbi

Actress | L'anno dei gatti

Danila Trebbi was born on January 10, 1955 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She is an actress, known for L'anno dei gatti (1979), Vieni avanti cretino (1982) and Dove vai se il vizietto non ce l'hai? (1979).

(Italy)

Explicit sex in "La sorella di Ursula" also known as "The Sister of Ursula" (1978)
Explicit sex in "Las verdes vacaciones de una familia bien" also know as "Erotic Family" (1980)

She was respectively 23 and 24 at the time of filming.

Danila Trebbi is an Italian actress. She had character roles from the late 1970s throughout the following decade.

She made her acting debut at 23 in Enzo Milioni's erotic mystery "La sorella di Ursula" also known as "The Sister of Ursula" (1978), starring Barbara Magnolfi, Stefania D'Amario, Yvonne Harlow and Antiniska Nemour, a role involving full frontal nudity and graphic sex scenes. Actress Barbara Magnolfi has expressed her disappointment in the final version of the film. She stated she was disappointed that they changed the film from a more serious psychological thriller to more of an erotic thriller. She played another role involving steamy sex scenes in Mario Siciliano's erotic comedy "Erotic Family" (1980), starring Karin Well.

Her other noteworthy roles include the false black waitress in Carlo Vanzina's comedy "Arrivano i gatti" (1980), the wife of the jealous husband in Luciano Salce's comedy "Vieni avanti cretino" also known as "Come forward idiot (1982) and her performance in Ninì Grassia's erotic drama "Il fascino sottile del peccato" also known as "The Sweet Charm of Sin" (1987), starring Alexandra Delli Colli. In the 1990, she played in the television movie "Aquile".

Danila Trebbi was married to the actor Nino Castelnuovo, with whom she had a son.

65. Yvonne Harlow

Actress | La sorella di Ursula

Yvonne Harlow is known for The Sister of Ursula (1978), Ricomincio da zero (1982) and La mafia mi fa un baffo (1974).

Explicit sex in "La sorella di Ursula" also known as "The Sister of Ursula" (1978)

Yvonne Harlow made her debut in Riccardo Garrone's comedy "La mafia mi fa un baffo" (1974). It was followed by a role in Riccardo Garrone's sexy comedy "La commessa" (1975), alongside Femi Benussi. In 1978, she was a member of the cast of Enzo Milioni's erotic mystery "La sorella di Ursula", alongside Barbara Magnolfi, Stefania D'Amario, Antiniska Nemour and Danila Trebbi, a role involving explicit love scenes. Lello Pontecorvo's comedy "Ricomincio da zero" (1982) was her last known performance.

66. Antiniska Nemour

Actress | Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma

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 ...

(Italy)

Explicit nudity in "La sposina" also known as "The Young Bride" (1976)
Explicit nudity in "La sorella di Ursula" also known as "The Sister of Ursula" (1978)

She was respectively 18 and 21 at the time of filming.

Antiniska Nemour is an Italian actress active during the 70's. During her short career in cinema, she had the opportunity to work with directors such as Carlo Lizzani and Pier Paolo Pasolini. She also worked on television, where she gained some notoriety in Enzo Tortora's prime time tv show "Portobello".

She made her debut at age 17 in the film "Il giudice e la minorenne" (1974) by Franco Nucci. She was 18 and working as a model when Pasolini found her and offered her a role in "Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma" also known as "Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom" (1975), an adaption of the book "120 Days of Sodom" written by French writer Marquis de Sade in 1785. The book was not published until 1905 due to its extremely sexually graphic and violent nature. The movie was screened at Locarno International Film Festival in 1976. It won the International Critics Special Award. Salò is a town in northern Italy, which Benito Mussolini's Fascist government effectively made their capital from 1943 until they fell from power in 1945. It was Pier Paolo Pasolini's last movie. He was murdered before the film's release. A 17 year-old hustler, Giuseppe "Pino" Pelosi, was arrested when he was found in Pasolini's car. He admitted running over Pasolini several times with the car after an argument. Many years later, he denied participating in it, claiming that three mysterious men were involved. The case remains unsolved. The film had an extremely limited release worldwide. It was banned in many countries. When the movie premiered in West Germany in February 1976, it was confiscated by the state attorney in order to ban it. The district court of Stuttgart classified it as pornographic and violence-praising. A few days later, though, that ruling was reversed and the film was allowed to be distributed nationwide. Various legal proceedings continued but in the end the Federal Court of Justice dismissed those. The British Board of Film Classification rejected the film in 1975, making it technically illegal to show in the UK. When an arthouse cinema in London showed it, the film was confiscated in a police raid. In 2000, the BBFC revised its opinion and gave it an "18" certificate, for adults only. The film only earned proper censorship approval from the Australian authorities in 2010. Even now, some 40 years after its release, the film remains banned in some countries. Ennio Morricone, who composed the jazzy soundtrack, said he was very uncomfortable watching the movie. He only agreed to score the film due to being friends with Pasolini. The notorious scene where a young woman is forced to eat excrement was intended by Pier Paolo Pasolini as a metaphor for consumer capitalism and the rise of the junk food culture. The "excrement" was really a mixture of chocolate, orange marmalade, and some other clashing ingredients. The disgusted reactions were real. Despite the grim subject throughout the film, in an interview in the Criterion Collection box set, actress Hélène Surgère claimed the mood was actually rather jovial on the set and that none of the teenage actors were actually harmed or traumatized. She said the abundance of teenagers who had never acted before led the mood to be happy and at times, even fun, with the cast often playing practical jokes on each other. Lead actor Paolo Bonacelli played pinball with the young members of the cast during the filming breaks.

She was still only 18-years old when Antiniska Nemour next starred in Sergio Bergonzelli's raunchy comedy "The Young Bride" (1976), her only leading role. The following year, she was cast in Cesare Canevari's sleazy exploitation war movie "L'ultima orgia del III Reich" also known as "The Gestapo's Last Orgy" (1977), alongside Daniela Poggi. The film was banned by the BBFC. It has yet to receive a UK release. Actor Tino Polenghi, who plays a chubby SS soldier, says that the movie was shot directly in a hardcore version. The hardcore sequences were subsequently removed and only his testimony and a few photos remain today. He says that Daniela Poggi did not take part in the hardcore scenes, unlike Antiniska Nemour, who did not need to be prayed for. This revelation is hardly surprising since some shots suggest cuts, especially during the collective masturbation of the soldiers in the orgy room and the hint of masturbation practiced by Maristella Greco to the soldier she is about to torture. According to Cesare Canevari, actor Vittorio Joderi, who plays the sadistic commander Weissman, forced Antiniska Nemour whose body hygiene was quite neglected to go shower before the famous scene where he licks her feet, information confirmed by the costume designer of the actress. Daniela Poggi regrets having participated in this movie. "I was twenty years old then and I was a model, my agency pushed me. Unfortunately they added unexpected scenes and a monstrous title. I was born with a beautiful body, and not being an actress out of academia, it was normal to be chosen for my good looks ", she says.

In 1978, she played in Enzo Milioni's thriller "The Sister of Ursula" (1978), also starring Barbara Magnolfi, Stefania D'Amario, Yvonne Harlow and Danila Trebbi. Final film of Antiniska Nemour. Actress Barbara Magnolfi has expressed her disappointment in the final version of the film. She stated she was disappointed that they changed the film from a serious psychological thriller to more of an erotic thriller.

67. Helen Shaver

Actress | Desert Hearts

Helen Shaver has built a lasting legacy, both behind and in front of the camera. She has directed hundreds of hours of television ranging from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) to Castle (2009), from The Unit (2006) to The Outer Limits (1995). Her film, Summer's End (1999), a Showtime ...

(Canada)

Explicit nudity in "In Praise of Older Women" (1978)
Explicit nudity in "The Believers" (1987)

She was respectively 27 and 36 at the time of filming.

"In Praise of Older Women" was notorious at the time of its release for showing a fair amount of nudity and sex. It was an adaptation of a novel of the same name by Stephen Vizinczey published in 1966. Helen Shaver won an award for Best Lead Actress at the 1978 Canadian Film Awards for her performance opposite Tom Berenger. She went on to star in "The Osterman Weekend" (1983) and she won the Bronze Leopard Award at the Locarno International Film Festival for her role in "Desert Hearts" (1985). Another prominent film performance during that time came in 1986 as the love interest of Paul Newman in Scorsese's "The Color of Money". Shaver made her feature-length directorial debut in 1999 with "Summer's End", which won an Emmy and earned her a directorial nomination. Shaver has also directed a number of television shows including "The OC", "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", "The L Word", "Orphan Black", "Vikings" and "Westworld". In 2004, Shaver was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.

68. Camille Keaton

Actress | Day of the Woman

Camille Keaton was born on July 20, 1947 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA. She is an actress, known for I Spit on Your Grave (1978), I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu (2019) and What Have You Done to Solange? (1972). She was previously married to Sidney Luft and Meir Zarchi.

(USA)

Explicit nudity in "I Spit On Your Grave" also known as "Day of the Woman" (1978)

She was 31 at the time of filming.

The film was originally released under the title "Day of the Woman" and was poorly received at the box office. In 1980, distributor Jerry Gross renamed it "I Spit on Your Grave" after a 1959 French drama and re-released it. Meir Zarchi didn't like that title but it helped make the film a controversial success. Zarchi insisted that the subtitle "aka Day of the Woman" be mentioned on all posters and DVD sleeves. This time it received a more widespread publicity and became the focus of film critic Roger Ebert's campaign against films featuring women in danger. He called it the worst movie ever made. British feminists actively picketed the film when it was first released in the UK. It features the longest rape scene in film history, roughly 25 minutes. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rejected it several times due to strong violence. The film eventually passed after Meir Zarchi removed all references to anal rape. One crew member quit during filming of the second rape scene. He simply couldn't stomach any more violence. The film's make-up artist also quit the film halfway through. She had been gang-raped and couldn't bear to relive the horror of her attack. Director Meir Zarchi called Camille Keaton "brave" for accepting her role. All four male actors asked to appear naked in the film to remove awkwardness and to show solidarity for Camille Keaton who spends much of the film in the nude. Despite the controversy and negative reviews, the performance of Camille Keaton was praised by critics. She said in 2019 that she doesn't feel this film or those like it are misogynistic at all, as some have claimed. She said "The film was inspired by true events after Meir Zarchi rescued a woman who had been raped, so I don't think it's exploitative, it's empowering to women. That's what I love about Meir's work, it doesn't glamorise anything. The grittiness of the cinematography shows the tone of what's happened. Statistics show that in the United States 1 in 5 women have been raped, so the truth is that it's a very real and worldwide issue. Most of us know someone who has been affected. When a movie takes on a subject like this, I think it's very brave." She added that the censorship of this film is a hypocrisy. "We can go on the internet right now and see porn, which children can easily access but we can't show a portrayal of someone being raped. I believe art can wake people up, especially something that makes a statement." Camille Keaton married writer-director Meir Zarchi in 1979. They divorced in 1982. The model seen from the rear in the iconic poster was Demi Moore. This was confirmed in her memoir "Inside Out." Producer Charles Band bought the video distribution rights for the movie in 1981. When it came time to design a new poster, he felt star Camille Keaton was too thin and wasn't shapely enough for the poster. At that time, he was also producing the sci-fi horror film "Parasite" (1982), which co-starred Demi Moore who had been a nude model before getting into acting. He thought she had the perfect back side for what they needed, so he chose her to pose for the poster. The film spawned a re-make in 2010, with two sequels in 2013 and 2015 and one official sequel, "I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu" in 2019, in which Keaton reprised her role. Camille Keaton is legendary actor Buster Keaton's great-niece. She began her career as a model and actress in Italy where she had signed with a talent agent and first appeared in several commercials. Her debut role was in the giallo movie "What Have You Done to Solange?". Film producer Robert Marcucci said of her "She truly steals every scene she's in, simply drifting in and out of each of her scenes, her face and mannerisms mysterious and alluring." In November 1972, Keaton was a centerfold in the Italian men's entertainment magazine Playmen. In September 1974, she was on Playmen's cover. Keaton returned to the United States in 1975.

69. Ornella Grassi

Director | In guerra senza uccidere

Ornella Grassi was born on February 18, 1952 in Pontremoli, Tuscany, Italy. She is an actress and director, known for In guerra senza uccidere (2013), Una donna. Poco più di un nome (2019) and Sindrome veneziana (1989).

(Italy)

Explicit sex in "La cerimonia dei sensi" also know as "The Ceremony of the Senses" (1979)

She was 27 at the time of filming.

She is a stage, television and film actress. She began working very young, at the age of five, on RAI radio programs for children. She graduated in languages at the University of Florence. Her perfect knowledge of English, French and German led her to be personally selected by François Truffaut for the translation of "La femme d'à côté" also known as "The Woman Next Door" (1981) with Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant. She is also well regarded as a reader of poems written by famous authors such as Jacques Prévert, Marcel Proust or Sylvia Plath. In June 2009, she was elected councilor of District 1 Historic Center of Florence, as a member of the Democratic Party. She holds the position of President of the Cultural Services Commission.

70. Y Sa Lo

Actress | Satansbraten

Y Sa Lo was born in 1945 in Millstatt am See, Austria. She is an actress and director, known for Satan's Brew (1976), Ich dachte, ich wär tot (1973) and C'est la vie, Rose (1977).

(Austria)

Explicit nudity in "Die Dritte Generation" also known as "The Third Generation" (1979)

She was 34 at the time of filming.

This provocative depiction of anarchists caused a stir on release. A film projectionist in Hamburg was beaten unconscious while screening this film and a theater in Frankfurt was besieged by youths attempting to use acid to destroy the print. Y Sa Lo is a stage, television and cinema actress. She also did children's radio plays. She became known in the 1970s after starring in several Rainer Werner Fassbinder's feature films. She later became an acting teacher at Wings of Art in Berlin.

71. Violeta Cela

Actress | El año de las luces

Violeta Cela was born on December 7, 1959 in Madrid, Spain. She is an actress, known for El año de las luces (1986), Azúcar (1999) and Estudio 1 (1965).

(Spain)

Explicit sex in "Eros Hotel" also know as "Daniela mini-slip" (1980)

She was 21 at the time of filming.

Violeta Cela is a well-known Spanish stage, tv and film actress. Niece of the Nobel Prize winner Camilo José Cela, as well as of the film director Antonio del Amo, with whom she never worked. Violeta Cela began in the world of acting while still a child. At just three years old, she had her first experiences as a child model and at age fifteen, she starred in the play "Violines y trompetas", by Santiago Moncada, sharing the stage with Pilar Bardem, Jesús Puente and Juanjo Menéndez. She made her film debut at the age of 11 in small roles. She gets her first lead role at age 20 in "Silvia ama a Raquel" (1979) by Diego Santillán, a role involving sapphic love scenes with full frontal nudity. At the end of that same year, she played a small role in Valerio Lazarov's comedy show "Sumarísimo" for TVE. At age 21, she starred in "Eros Hotel" (1980), a sex farce including very graphic sex scenes taking place in a hotel in Istanbul whose attendant has voyeuristic tendencies. The Spanish version was uncut and released under the title "Eros Hotel" whereas the explicit scenes were cut from the Italian version released under the title "Daniela mini-slip". After taking part in some televised plays on the Estudio 1 space, such as "La Discreta Enamorada" (1980), she also starred on television in the series "Juanita La Larga" (1982), an adaptation of the homonymous novel by Juan Valera, and the mini-series Nunca es tarde (1984), together with Irene Gutiérrez Caba and Pastor Serrador. Her notable movie roles were in Luis García Berlanga's war comedy "La Vaquilla" also know as "The Heifer" (1985), in "El Año De Las Luces" also known as "Year of Enlightment" (1986), starring Maribel Verdú and Verónica Forqué, in José Luis Cuerda's comedy "Amanece, que no es poco" also known as "Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing" (1989), or in Carlos Saura's drama "Pajarico" (1997). Throughout the years, she has combined her career in film, television and on stage, having participated in almost thirty productions, most of the time as the leading actress in classical plays. She also worked as a dubbing actress and director, scriptwriter and columnist for the newspaper ABC and the magazines Primera línea and Man. She has also coordinated and presented the magazines "La Gran Tarde De La Música" and "Mi querida radio" on Radio Nacional de España.

72. Alexandra Delli Colli

Actress | Zombi Holocaust

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 ...

(Italy)

Explicit nudity in "Zombie Holocaust" (1980)
Explicit nudity in "Lo squartatore di New York" also known as "The New York Ripper" (1982)

She was respectively 23 and 25 at the time of filming.

She was 18 when she made her big screen debut under the pseudonym Alexandra Gorski in 1975 in the French feature film "Catherine et Cie" also known as "Catherine & Co." starring Jane Birkin and Patrick Dewaere. She became one of the most iconic actresses of the zombie/cannibal genre with her role in "Zombie Holocaust" in 1980. It was banned under the obscenities law in most parts of Europe. The film was released fully uncut in the UK in 2000. In Lucio Fulci's "The New York Ripper" (1982), although the film was classified as a thriller, Alexandra played many particularly erotic scenes. After many years of being banned in Britain, the video release received 22 secs of cuts to the razor-blade murder under the condition that the film could only be released in VHS with minimal publicity in 2002. It was not available in DVD in the UK until 2007. We also remember her in the films "L'inceneritore" also known as "The Incinerator" (1984) and "Il fascino sottile del peccato" also known as " The Sweet Charm of Sin" (1987).

73. Theresa Russell

Actress | Spider-Man 3

Theresa Russell, named one of the "100 sexiest stars in film history" (Empire Magazine), was born in San Diego, California. She was discovered by a photographer at the age of 12, and made her film debut in Elia Kazan's The Last Tycoon (1976), opposite Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Robert ...

(USA)

Explicit nudity in "Bad Timing" (1980)
Explicit nudity in "Eureka" (1983)
Explicit nudity in "Black Widow" (1987)
Explicit nudity in "Whore" (1991)
Explicit nudity in "Hotel Paradise" (1995)

She was respectively 22, 26, 30, 34 and 38 at the time of filming.

Theresa Russell's career spans over four decades. Her filmography includes over 60 feature films, ranging from mainstream to independent and experimental films. Her mother was a teenager when Theresa was born. She had a turbulent childhood marked by poverty. By age 13, she had begun experimenting with recreational drugs. She dropped out of school at age 16 and began modeling. She met photographer Peter Douglas, son of Kirk Douglas, who introduced her to film producer Sam Spiegel who cast her in "The Last Tycoon" (1976) at age 19. In a retrospective interview, Russell commented on the experience saying: "Sam Spiegel loved to be seen with child-girls on his arm. I was 16 years old and he took me to the Bistro and tried to stick his tongue down my throat. I was not a bimbo. I called a lawyer. Sam was furious. He said he would make sure that I get no billing in the movie. And to this day, if you ever see any advertising for "The Last Tycoon", my name is in teensy-weensy type. I was completely left out of the publicity for the movie." The following year, Russell starred opposite Dustin Hoffman in the crime drama "Straight Time". Vincent Canby of The New York Times praised Russell in his review of the film, writing: "Miss Russell, who was so good in The Last Tycoon, is an extremely appealing actress, with a kind of contemporary authority, but she looks so classy, so understated-chic.." She next landed the lead role opposite singer Art Garfunkel in Nicolas Roeg's thriller "Bad Timing" in 1982. It was subject to controversy upon release due to its graphic depiction of sexuality and rape. The sex scenes were heavily cut by irish censors when first theatrically released in Ireland. The film originally received an X-rating in the U.S causing the distributor to release it as an unrated film. Russell's performance was praised by critic Roger Ebert, who wrote: "If there is any reason to see this film, however, it is the performance by Theresa Russell. She is only 22, and yet her performance is astonishingly powerful. She will be in better films, I hope, and is the only participant who need not be ashamed of this one." While this movie was being shot, Garfunkel's real-life girlfriend Laurie Bird committed suicide by taking an overdose of valium. Russell, 22, and Roeg, 52, began a romance while shooting the film. They got married in 1982 and had two children. She appeared in six Roeg movies throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, including "Eureka" in 1983, which originally received an X-rating by the MPAA in the U.S due to graphic violence. It was later edited and received an R-rating. In 1987, she gained mainstream exposure for her role in noir thriller "Black Widow", co-starring Debra Winger. Debra Winger was given the choice of the two roles; she chose the role of the FBI agent, because she did not understand the motivation behind the Black Widow's killing spree, so the title role went to Theresa Russell. In 1991, she starred as a prostitute in the satirical drama "Whore". Director Ken Russell made the movie as a response to "Pretty Woman" (1990). Although the film received a mixed reception from critics, Russell's performance was praised by The New York Times. In 2007, she appeared in a supporting role in "Spider-Man 3".

74. Renée Soutendijk

Actress | Suspiria

Renée Soutendijk was born on May 21, 1957 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. She is an actress, known for Suspiria (2018), Eve of Destruction (1991) and Moordvrouw (2012). She is married to Thed Lenssen. They have two children.

(The Netherlands)

Explicit sex in "Spetters" (1980)
Explicit sex in "De flat" also known as "House Call" (1994)

She was respectively 23 and 37 at the time of filming.

Renée Soutendijk was an Olympic gymnast in her youth. She studied acting at the Academy for Podium Formation in The Hague and began her career as an actress in the late 1970s in a Dutch television series. She began her film career playing the heroines in the Paul Verhoeven-directed cult films "Spetters" (1980) and "The Fourth Man" (1983). "Spetters" established her as a sex symbol. The movie attracted attention in the US. The New York Times saw her "stylish performance" of a "compelling character" as a focal point of the movie. "Spetters" was heavily criticized in the Netherlands. Many critics accused the movie of being anti-women, anti-gay, anti-invalid and anti-Christian. They also called it devoid of morals and needlessly decadent. This criticism was one of the contributing factors in director Paul Verhoeven's decision to begin making movies in America rather than his native country. Verhoeven's movies had come to the attention of Kathleen Kennedy who showed them to her business partner Steven Spielberg who was hugely impressed with "Soldaat van Oranje" (1977). He considered recommending Verhoeven to his friend George Lucas as a potential director for "Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi" (1983) but he changed his mind after seeing the sexually explicit "Spetters". In the early 1980s, Renée Soutendijk, Monique van de Ven, and Willeke van Ammelrooy were the three best-known actresses in Dutch cinema, and most Dutch movies featured one of the three. The movie that marked her breakthrough as an actress in a major role is "The Girl with the Red Hair" (1981), in which she played Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft. In 1985, she won the award for Best Actress at the Nederlands Film Festival for her performance in "De ijssalon" also known as "Private Resistance" (1985). From 1981 to 1989, she played in "Zeg 'ns Aaa", one of the longest-running and most popular Dutch sitcoms. Soutendijk attempted to establish herself in the US in the late 1980s and appeared in the science fiction film "Eve of Destruction" (1991) in which she portrayed an android opposite Gregory Hines. Since the 2000s she has played a number of television and stage roles, and appeared as one of the leads in the 2012 RTL 4 television series "Moordvrouw". She has also had a supporting role in "Suspiria" (2018).

75. Francesca Ciardi

Actress | Cannibal Holocaust

Francesca Ciardi was born on July 26, 1954. She is an actress, known for Cannibal Holocaust (1980), Death Walks (2016) and Road Rage.

(Italy)

Explicit nudity in "Cannibal Holocaust" (1980)

She was 26 at the time of filming.

This is Francesca Ciardi's debut film. The second film of Ruggero Deodato's "Cannibal Trilogy". Director Ruggero Deodato said he based the film on a film he saw about a documentary crew who died while investigating cannibals in Africa. After seeing the film, director Sergio Leone wrote a letter to Ruggero Deodato, which stated "Dear Ruggero, what a movie! The second part is a masterpiece of cinematographic realism but everything seems so real that I think you will get in trouble with the entire world." Ten days after its premiere in Milan, the film was seized by the Italian courts and director Ruggero Deodato was arrested and charged with murdering several actors on camera, including Francesca Ciardi, and faced life in prison. The cast had signed contracts requiring them to stay away from the media for a year after shooting to maintain the illusion that they had died for real. The murder charges were dropped when the actors appeared in a television show as proof that they were alive and well. The animal deaths in the film, however, were real. The dead animals were then given to the natives for food. Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen and Carl Gabriel Yorke were opposed to the real animal death scenes. Yorke said that if he had known that animals would be killed during the filming, he would not have agreed to make the film. Ciardi also spoke negatively about those scenes and described it as the worst experience of her life. Ruggero Deodato has said he now regrets the actual animal deaths. After filming the sex scene between Carl Gabriel Yorke and Francesca Ciardi, due to the several takes of the scene, one of the natives congratulated Yorke for his resistance. In a 2005 interview, Carl Gabriel Yorke said that while rehearsing the sex scene with Francesca Ciardi, she suggested that they go out in the middle of the jungle and "actually do it". Yorke said that he declined because he had a girlfriend back in New York but in 2009, Francesca Ciardi stated that the sex scenes were not simulated and that she and Yorke were lovers off-screen during filming. During an interview in 2014, Francesca Ciardi said she knew in advance that she would be required to strip off in this movie, although she felt the nudity she was required to do was excessive and unnecessary for her role. "I was comfortable with nudity that but I am not happy with all of it because Ruggero shot some scenes with a double that was not me. I complained terribly, especially of the scene at the end when you see me naked with the cannibals splitting my head open." The film was banned in 50 countries. Italy banned it for three years. It was not allowed a theatrical release in the United States for five years and was also seized at a 1993 Birmingham Comic Fair. Norway banned it until 2003. It was second highest-grossing film in Japan in 1983 behind "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982).

76. Vera Fischer

Actress | O Clone

Vera Fischer was born on November 27, 1951 in Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil. She is an actress and producer, known for The Clone (2001), Intimidade (1975) and Love Strange Love (1982). She was previously married to Felipe Camargo and Perry Salles.

(Brazil)

Explicit nudity in "Bonitinha Mas Ordinária" also known as "Cute But Ordinary" (1981)

She was 30 at the time of filming.

Vera Fischer is of German origins. In her autobiography, she said that her father was a Nazi and beat her. She was elected Miss Brazil 1969 and a semi-finalist at Miss Universe 1969. She was married to Brazilian actor Perry Salles in 1971. In Brazil, she is considered one of the biggest sex symbols ever. She posed twice for Playboy Brazil; in August 1982 and January 2000. She is a film and soap opera (telenovelas) actress and producer. She started her acting career in sexploitation movies. Her career breakthrough came rapidly with "Anjo Loiro" in 1973 at age 22. She won an award for Best Actress in Brazilian Cinema Festival of Brasília in 1982 for her role in the movie "Amor Estranho Amor" also known as "Love Strange Love" (1982). She also designs clothes and jewelery. In 2007, Vera made her first exposition as a plastic artist in Rio de Janeiro.

77. Stefania Sandrelli

Actress | Il conformista

She was born in Viareggio (Tuscany, Italy) on June 5th, 1946. She won a beauty contest when she was just 15 years old, which led to her first role in "Il federale" together with the great Italian actor Ugo Tognazzi. She was then cast by Germi for the Italian comedy "Divorzio all'Italiana", working ...

(Italy)

Explicit nudity in "La Disubbidienza" (1981)
Explicit sex in "La Chiave" also know as "The Key" (1983)

She was respectively 35 and 37 at the time of filming.

Stefania Sandrelli studied ballet and learned to play the accordion. In 1960, at age 14, she won the Miss Cinema Viareggio beauty contest, then she was the cover girl of the magazine Le Ore, and appeared in three movies in 1961 at age 15, including "Il federale" also know as "The Fascist", a war comedy starring Ugo Tognazzi and Pietro Germi's Oscar winning "Divorzio all'italiana" also know as "Divorce Italian Style" with Marcello Mastroianni. She became an instant star of the commedia dell'arte, starring in Antonio Pietrangeli's "Io la conoscevo bene" also know as "I Knew Her Well" (1965) with Ugo Tognazzi, Nino Manfredi and Franco Nero, in Mario Monicelli's "Brancaleone alle Crociate" also know as "Brancaleone at the Crusades" (1970) with Vittorio Gassman, and in Ettore Scola's "C'eravamo tanto amati" also know as "We All Loved Each Other So Much" (1974) with Marcello Mastroianni, Nino Manfredi and Vittorio Gassman. She also starred in several Bernardo Bertolucci's drama films, including "Il Conformista" also know as "The Conformist" (1970) with Jean-Louis Trintignant and "1900" (1976) with Robert De Niro and Gérard Depardieu. In 1980, she won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress thanks to her performance in Ettore Scola's "La Terrazza" with Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Marcello Mastroianni. She relaunched her career with the erotic films ""La Disubbidienza" opposite Teresa Ann Savoy in 1981 and "The Key" in 1983. This film is based on the Japanese novel 'Kagi', the title of which actually translates literally into English as 'Key'. Reportedly, this film went to court in Italy for allegedly being obscene. Stefania Sandrelli once said of this movie: "I like to play all parts. If I have to be nude, I have to be nude. But I never have the impression of being naked on the set. Yes, I was a little afraid of this film at first. The script shocked me and amused me because the subject is nothing but sex. Nothing else is discussed in the film." When Tinto Brass proposed the role to Stefania Sandrelli, the dress rehearsal took place in a lingerie store. "I got naked and made a nude fashion show for him and his wife Tinta." Following the success of the film, she then acted in a series of successful erotic films. In 2005, she received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 62nd Venice International Film Festival. Stefania Sandrelli had a long relationship with Italian singer-songwriter Gino Paoli. Their daughter Amanda Sandrelli, born in 1964, is also an actress.

78. Rae Dawn Chong

Actress | Commando

Rae Dawn Chong was born February 28, 1961 in Edmonton, Canada. After a few film and television spots, Rae Dawn earned a Genie for her performance in Jean-Jacques Annaud's prehistoric-drama Quest for Fire (1981). She played the young, Ivaka prisoner, Ika. Other notables roles include Harpo's ...

(Canada)

Explicit nudity in "La guerre du feu" also known as "Quest for Fire" (1981)

This movie took a whole year to make. She was 19 at the time of filming.

Daughter of Tommy Chong, a Canadian comedian, actor, musician and activist of Chinese and Scots-Irish descent known for playing in the iconic sitcom "That '70s Show". Her sister Robbi Chong is a model and actress. Rae Dawn Chong made her big screen debut in the 1978 musical drama "Stony Island". In 1981, in what was only her second role, she starred in Jean-Jacques Annaud's fantasy film "La guerre du feu", an adaptation of J.H. Rosny Sr.'s novel by the same name, for which she received a Genie Award for Best Actress. Auditions were held in 32 cities all over the world. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud originally discovered Rae Dawn Chong on the beach in Los Angeles. She got the part largely because she was completely comfortable with being fully nude. Between scenes, she remained nude in full bodypaint on the set to stay in character. During a 1982 interview for People Magazine, she said that the rape scene was an ordeal that "left her scratched, bruised and crying" however. Her other notable role came in 1985 with a lead role in major box office hit "Commando" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and an Alyssa Milano in her teenage years. Rae Dawn Chong can be credited for being the one who discovered actor Chris Pratt. He was 19 years old and waiting tables in a Bubba Gump Shrimp Company restaurant in Maui when she cast him in the short horror film "Cursed Part 3" (2000), her directorial debut. In 2011, she was cast in the successfull comedy "Jeff, Who Lives at Home", followed by a role in thriller movie "Shiver" (2012).

79. Patricia Gélin

Actress | Fanny och Alexander

Patricia Gélin was born in 1956 in Stockholm. She is an actress, known for Fanny and Alexander (1982), Montenegro (1981) and A French Woman (1995).

(Sweden)

Explicit nudity in "Montenegro" also known as "Montenegro - Or Pigs and Pearls" (1981)

She was 25 at the time of filming.

Patricia Gélin's film debut. In typical Dusan Makavejev fashion, this wild erotic drama had to be cut by seconds to avoid receiving an X-rating from the MPAA on its original USA release. The R-rated version was also released on home video, but in recent years the uncensored original has turned up as an "unrated" version. The following year, she had a role in Ingmar Bergmann's masterpiece "Fanny och Alexander" also known as "Fanny and Alexander" (1982). In 1995, she was cast in French wartime drama "Une femme française" also known as "A French Woman" starring Emmanuelle Béart and Daniel Auteuil. She also appeared in iconic German TV series "Tatort" in 2003.

80. Kylie Foster

Actress | Quigley Down Under

Kylie Foster was born on March 3, 1961 in Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia. She is an actress, known for Quigley Down Under (1990), Centrespread (1981) and Cop Shop (1977).

(Australia)

Explicit sex in "Centrespread" (1981)

She was 20 at the time of filming.

She was 18 when she debuted in "Skyways" (1979), an Australian television series starring Kylie Minogue who was in one of her first professional acting roles. "Centrespread" was Kylie Foster's first role in a feature film, involving full frontal nudity and sapphic sex. She also starred in the popular Australian TV series "Prisoner: Cell Block H" in 1984, "Neighbours" in 1985 and "Home and Away" in 1989. She posed for Playboy and Penthouse magazines.

81. Karina Fallenstein

Actress | Im Jahr der Schildkröte

Karina Fallenstein was born in 1961 in Hanau, Hesse, Germany. She is an actress, known for Im Jahr der Schildkröte (1988), Doktor Martin (2007) and Die Insel der blutigen Plantage (1983).

(Germany)

Explicit nudity in "Egon Schiele - Exzess und Bestrafung" also known as "Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment" (1981)
Explicit sex in "Obszön - Der Fall Peter Herzl" also know as "Obscene: The Case of Peter Herzl" (1981)

She was respectively 19 and 20 at the time of filming.

Karina Fallenstein is a stage, television and film actress. Her film career began in 1981 with "Egon Schiele - Exzess und Bestrafung", also starring Jane Birkin. It is an experimental movie about controversial painter Egon Shiele, who was specialized in nudes, arrested in Austria for his work considered as pornographic. Karina Fallenstein was chosen for her juvenile looks. She was 19 but she was playing the role of a 13 year-old nymphet who modelled for Egon Shiele. That same year, she is cast to play the role of an underage girl again in "Obszön - Der Fall Peter Herzl". She plays the role of the daugther of a prostitute. Her character is involved in an incestuous sexual relationship with her mother and she ends up in a threesome with her mother and her lover.

82. Isabelle Illiers

Actress | Les fruits de la passion

Isabelle Illiers is known for Fruits of Passion (1981), My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days (1989) and Luci lontane (1987).

(France)

Explicit sex in "Les Fruits de la Passion" also know as "Fruits of Passion" (1981)
Explicit nudity in "Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours" also known as "My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days" (1989).

Isabelle Illiers is a film and television actress. She played in French and Italian movies and television series. At the start of her career, for what was only her second role, she starred as O, a role including unsimulated sex scenes, in Jushi Terajama's erotic movie "Les Fruits de la Passion" opposite French actress Arielle Dombasle & German actor Klaus Kinski. This movie sits between cult film "Story of O" (1975) and "The Story of O 2" (1984). In his autobiography, Klaus Kinski recalls: "The girl I'm supposed to place in a brothel has a delicious cheese. During one scene, she truly has a nervous breakdown when a mechanical dick on a kind of fuck machine is inserted into her hole. She throws herself on the cold, slimy sand floor of the studio and rolls and wallows in the filth, shrieking her lungs out. No one can get near her. I lovingly calm her down and take her to my dressing room. There I bend her over the makeup table in front of the mirror and give her a rough and thorough fuck from behind. Then she's fine again." A sex scene with Klaus Kinski on a bed having sex with Isabelle Illiers from behind was filmed but it wasn't included in the final cut. There is a series of GettyImages photos from the set. In 1989, she is cast in Andrzej Zulawski's romantic drama "My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days" opposite French actress Sophie Marceau and French singer Jacques Dutronc.

83. Arielle Dombasle

Actress | X Femmes

Arielle Laure Maxime Sonnery, later known as Arielle Dombasle, was born to French parents in Hartford, Connecticut. After their mother's death in 1964, Dombasle and her brother were raised in Mexico by their maternal grandparents; she attended Lycée Franco-Mexicain, a private school. She decided to...

(France)

Explicit sex in "Les Fruits de la Passion" also know as "Fruits of Passion" (1981)
Explicit nudity in "X Femmes" also known as "Women of Sex" (2008)

She was respectively 27 and 55 at the time of filming.

Born in the US, raised in Mexico, Arielle Dombasle is a French model, singer, actress and director. She was only 11 when her mother died. She took her mother's maiden name Dombasle as her stage name in her memory. She was raised in Mexico by her maternal grandparents. Her grandfather was a close friend of Charles de Gaulle, who served as the French ambassador to Mexico. She was also raised in a castle, Château de Chaintré, the family estate on her father's side. Her grandmother on her father's side was of noble descent. She attended the Conservatoire International de Musique de Paris and embarked on a career as a singer and actress. Her albums are mostly in Spanish and English. she has released twenty-one singles and ten albums. In 2006, she released two albums "Amor Amor" and "C'est si Bon" in the US. In September 2006, she performed three nights in a row at the Supper Club in New York City in front of Michael Douglas, John Malkovich and Lauren Bacall. She then released several albums in France; "Glamour à Mort!", "Diva Latina", "Arielle Dombasle by ERA" and "La Rivière Atlantique". Most of her acting work has been in French productions but she has appeared in several Hollywood productions. In 1979, she was cast in Roman Polanski's "Tess", the breakthrough film role for 17-year old actress Nastassja Kinski. Two years later, she plays alongside actor Klaus Kinski, Nastassja Kinski's father, as one of the lead roles in "Fruits of Passion". In his autobiography "Kinski Uncut", Klaus Kinski wrote that all the sex scenes in this movie were unsimulated. "The Japanese never complain; they like to work. But we have to fuck here! Yet, every man's cock is hanging limp. One of the Japanese girls, whom I have to fuck in the film and whom I also hump in my hotel, goes into dark corners with the men and sucks their cocks until they get hard. Then she runs to Terajama to give him the good news. It often happens that a cock will become limp again before the camera starts rolling. As for myself, I simply reach into the cheesy panties of one of the French actresses from time to time for a fingerful." Klaus Kinski also talked about the sexual relations he had with his French co-stars, clearly referring to Isabelle Illiers and to Arielle Dombasle: "There are two Frenchwomen. I'm supposed to fuck both of them in front of the camera. In Paris, I immediately drag one of them (Isabelle Illiers) to my pad on the Quai Bourbon and fuck her on the floor right in the apartment entrance. The other Frenchwoman (Arielle Dombasle) is hysterical and is still resisting long after I've stuck my dick into her pussy and shot. She's married and during the fuck, she babbles about 'rape...adultery...scoundrel...' Yet her bodacious butt sticks out so hornily that she can't want anything but adultery." In an interview, Arielle Dombasle looked back on her film career and in particular "Les fruits de la passion", which she would have preferred to forget. "It was something that made me suffer horribly. I was too young to do that. And then Kinski ... he was crazy". According to her, playing opposite the German actor was hell. "He's a guy who crushed the weak, the nastiest trait there is. Someone who liked relationships by force, who absolutely wanted to be loved and who did everything to not love him. Unbearable ". Her breakthrough role came two years later in Eric Rohmer's romantic comedy "Pauline à la plage" also know as "Pauline at the Beach" (1983), starring 15-year old Amanda Langlet who goes fully naked on her film debut. Then she starred in the 1984 miniseries "Lace" and its 1985 sequel "Lace II", appeared as a guest star in "Miami Vice" in 1986 and in "Red Shoe Diaries" in 1994. In 1995, she gets her career's best role as the lead in writer/director Alain Robbe-Grillet's crime thriller "Un bruit qui rend fou" also known as "The Blue Villa", which won the award for Best Film at 1995 San Diego International Film Festival. Her filmography of 148 movies and television series also includes roles in "L'Ennui" also known as "Boredom" (1998) for which she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress at the 1999 César Awards, "Astérix & Obélix contre César" (1999) and "Vatel" (2000) opposite Gérard Depardieu, Uma Thurman and Tim Roth.

84. Eleonora Giorgi

Actress | Borotalco

Eleonora Giorgi was born on October 21, 1953 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress and director, known for Talcum Powder (1982), Love, Lies, Kids... & Dogs (2003) and Cuore di cane (1976). She was previously married to Massimo Ciavarro and Angelo Rizzoli Jr..

(Italy)

Explicit nudity in "Nudo di donna" also known as "Portrait of a Nude Woman" (1981)

She was 28 at the time of filming.

Eleonora Giorgi is an Italian actress with English and Hungarian origins. She was a sex symbol in the 70's. After her first appearance in Federico Fellini's film "Roma" (1972) at age 19, she made her debut as a leading actress in 1973 in "Storia di una monaca di clausura" also known as "Story of a Cloistered Nun", a film of the erotic genre in which she starred opposite Catherine Spaak and Paola Senatore. The following year, she starred in the erotic movie "Appassionata", played in tandem with Ornella Muti, where she plays the role of an underage seducer of her friend's father. In the same year, she poses for Playmen magazine and gets arrested after her 17-year boyfriend, who did not hold a driving licence, died in an accident with the motorbike she had lent him. She also worked for the radio in 1976 on the show "Il mattiniere". After a few films belonging to the wave of Italian sexy comedies, she began to play dramatic roles in the war drama "L'Agnese va a morire" also known as "And Agnes Chose to Die" (1976), the fantasy drama "Cuore di cane" also known as "Dog's Heart" (1976) and Visconti's thriller "Una spirale di nebbia" also known as "A Spiral of Mist" (1977). Her career will be characterized by her participation in comedies, often paired with famous Italian comedy actors of the 80's such as Renato Pozzetto in "Mia moglie è una strega" also known as "My wife is a witch" (1980), Carlo Verdone in "Borotalco" also known as "Talcum Powder" (1982), one of her most popular performances for which she won a David di Donatello award, Johnny Dorelli and Adriano Celentano with whom she played in "Mani di velluto" also known as "Velvet Hands" (1979 ) and in "Grand Hotel Excelsior" (1982). In 1979 Eleonora Giorgi married the publisher Angelo Rizzoli with whom she had a son. The two divorced in 1984, following the P2 scandal in which Rizzoli was arrested, resulting in the dissolution of the P2 Masonic lodge considered as a "criminal organization" and "subversive" towards the Italian legal system. At the end of the 80's, Giorgi preferred to distance herself from the world of cinema due to the heavy moral judgments expressed by public opinion with regard to this affair, which had serious repercussions on a human and professional level, effectively precluding any possibility of obtaining important film roles, but also and above all of dedicating herself to her private life away from the spotlight. In 2016, in a televised interview with Pippo Baudo in "Domenica in", in addition to having made public a brief flirtation with the actor Warren Beatty in 1982, she declared that she had a serious addiction to heroin, which began in 1974 after the death of her then boyfriend Alessandro Momo and that she was saved by her marriage to Rizzoli.

85. Jeanne Goupil

Actress | Paradis pour tous

Jeanne Goupil was born on April 4, 1950 in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, France. She is an actress, known for Paradis pour tous (1982), Marie-poupée (1976) and Don't Deliver Us from Evil (1971). She has been married to Joël Séria since 1975. They have one child.

(France)

Explicit nudity in "Paradis Pour Tous" also known as "Paradise for All" (1982)

She was 32 at the time of filming.

Jeanne Goupil is a film and television actress and a painter. She graduated from the prestigious National School of Decorative Arts (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) in Paris. She was 21 when she started her acting career in 1971 with a lead role in French director Joël Séria's first feature film "Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal" also known as "Don't Deliver Us from Evil". This horror drama, based very loosely on the Parker-Hulme case in New Zealand, in which a couple of girls battered their mother to death, follows two Catholic schoolgirls who are drawn toward increasingly evil deeds. The film was controversial upon release due to its depiction of adolescent crime and lewd behaviour, receiving an X rating in the United Kingdom and being banned in its native France. Jeanne Goupil got married to Joël Séria and played in ten more of his movies, including "Les galettes de Pont-Aven" also known as "Cookies" (1975) opposite famous French actor Jean-Pierre Marielle. Jeanne Goupil made the paintings used in the film. The following year, she gave her most iconic performance as an adult child who pretends to be a doll to indulge in a peculiar seduction game with a doll collector played by André Dussollier in another Joël Séria's movies "Marie-Poupée" also known as "Marie, the Doll" (1976). In 1982, she is the lead actress in "Paradis Pour Tous" also known as "Paradise for All" opposite iconic but tormented actor Patrick Dewaere, a movie about a doctor who can make depressed people feel better by suppressing their emotion center. In a tragic case of life imitating art, Patrick Dewaere committed suicide two months before the release of the film. He was only 35. In 1995, Jeanne Goupil was cast in Bertrand Tavernier's drama "L'Appât" also known as "The Bait" starring Marie Gillain, a movie about two boys and a girl who commit a murder, with the girl acting as the "bait". Based on true events, the "Valérie Subra affair", the real characters are still in prison. Also a television actress, she played in 17 series including "Arsène Lupin joue et perd" (1980), "Série noire" (1986-1988) and "Maigret" (1997).

86. Caroline Berg

Actress | Tais-toi quand tu parles!

Caroline Berg was born on February 3, 1957 in Glostrup, Copenhagen, Denmark. She is an actress, known for Tais-toi quand tu parles! (1981), Paradis pour tous (1982) and Orages d'été (1989).

(France)

Explicit nudity in "Paradis Pour Tous" also known as "Paradise for All" (1982)

She was 25 at the time of filming.

She is a French actress of Danish origins. She is also a translator of scandinavian litterature. She is the official translator of Danish bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen. She has 4 children including a daughter with French olympic skier Philippe Barroso and a daughter with French actor Francis Perrin. She started her acting career at age 22 under the name Caroline Tabourin in the erotic drama "New Generation" (1979). She begins a very prolific career during the 80's with a succession of roles in comedies and television series mostly in France and in Italy. In 1981, she is cast in the James Bond parody "Tais-toi quand tu parles!" also known as "Shut Up When You Speak!" starring French-Italian funnyman Aldo Maccione and French-Sicilian sex symbol Edwige Fenech. She has the lead role in "Il marchese del Grillo" (1981) an entertaining Italian comedy taking a jibe at the Catholic Church and the aristocracy, in which she has full frontal nude scenes. The following year, she appears in the long-running television series "Commissaire Moulin" and "Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret" and in "Paradis Pour Tous" with an impressive cast including Patrick Dewaere, Fanny Cottençon, Stéphane Audran and Jeanne Goupil. In 1985, she plays in "Le due vite di Mattia Pascal" also known as "The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal" starring Marcello Mastroianni. She appears in the popular French series "Une famille formidable" in 1994, "Coeurs caraïbes" in 1995 and "Navarro" in 1999. in 2002, she retires from acting and fully dedicates herself to introducing Danish litterature in France.

87. Angelique Pettyjohn

Actress | Repo Man

Born Dorothy Lee Perrins in Los Angeles, California on March 11, 1943, Angelique Pettyjohn began modeling at a very young age. She also took advantage of her living in the locus of "American Dreams" by studying acting. Pettyjohn made her movie debut at age 21, under the name "Angelique", in the ...

(USA)

Explicit sex in "Titillation" (1982)
Explicit sex in "Body Talk" (1982)
Explicit sex in "Stalag 69" (1982)

She was 39 at the time of filming.

Angelique Pettyjohn was born in Los Angeles and raised in Salt Lake City. She started her acting career in 1967 in a number of 1960s television series under the name Angelique, including appearances in "The Green Hornet" with Bruce Lee and Van Williams, "Mr. Terrific", "The Felony Squad" with Howard Duff and Dennis Cole, "Batman" with Adam West, "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E." with Stefanie Powers and "Get Smart" with Don Adams and Barbara Feldon. She also had credited film appearances that year in Michael Findlay's sexy horror movie "The Touch of Her Flesh" (1967), in "The Love Rebellion" (1967), in Gene Kelly's romantic comedy "A Guide for the Married Man" (1967) starring Walter Matthau, and in the Elvis Presley film "Clambake" (1967) with a more noteworthy role. Elvis Presley had so much debt in early 1967, due to his purchase of a Memphis ranch that his manager had to sign the contract for this movie in a hurry so that Elvis could get his one million dollar fee. While shooting this film, Elvis suffered a serious fall in his bathroom at home, tripping over an electrical cord and striking his head on the porcelain edge of a bathtub. The resultant injury was serious enough that Presley lay unconscious for an unknown length of time and was briefly hospitalized. The pain-killers he was prescribed to relieve the massive headaches and other effects of his injuries began the drug dependency that was partially blamed for his death a decade later. On the back of these film and television experiences, Angelique Pettyjohn appeared in the "Star Trek: The Original Series" episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion" as Shahna, the thrall trainer of Captain James T. Kirk, in 1968. She also appeared in "The Monkees" (1968), a television series following a struggling pop group. She was one of the go-go dancers in the opening scene of the comedy film "The Odd Couple" (1968), starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, and she also tested for the role of Nova in "Planet of the Apes" the same year, the role which finally went to Linda Harrison. In 1969, she starred in the horror flick "The Mad Doctor of Blood Island". Angelique Pettyjohn claimed that the love scene with co-star John Ashley was not simulated. In 2018, after decades of being thought lost, cult film label Severin Films discovered the original 35mm negative in Paris, France. This element contains the uncut version of the film. That year, she also appeared in the biker film "Hell's Belles" (1969), played a saloon girl in the western "Heaven with a Gun" (1969) starring Glenn Ford, Barbara Hershey, David Carradine and Carolyn Jones, and starred in John Derek's drama "Childish Things" (1969) alongside Don Murray and Linda Evans (then John Derek's wife). According to Linda Evans, after this was finally released in 1969, her husband John Derek had the opportunity to direct the film Fantasies starring newcomer Bo Derek but needed money to help finance it. He convinced Evans to let him sell full nude photos he took of her to Playboy. She agreed and they were published in 1971. He ended up filming "Fantasies" in 1973 but it wasn't released until 1981 after Bo gained fame starring in "10" (1979). Derek and Evans had already divorced in 1974 when she discovered he had had an affair with Bo, who was 16 at the time, while filming the movie. So she ended up letting the world see her naked so her husband could have an affair with an underage girl. But she said in a 2011 interview that she didn't regret it because the nude photoshoot helped reinvigorate her career, which led to her getting the role on the series "Dynasty" (1981), which was a huge hit. Angelique Pettyjohn's 1970s films included "Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon" (1970), starring Liza Minnelli in her first nude scene notoriously shot in a cemetery without permission, Ken Howard, Kay Thompson and James Coco, the sci-fi exploitation film "The Curious Female" (1970), and the low-budget crime drama "Wit's End" also known as "The G.I. Executioner" (1971) in which she starred alongside Victoria Racimo and Janet Wood. For the remainder of the 1970s, she worked as a burlesque star in Las Vegas. She first appeared in Barry Ashton's Burlesque Show at the Silver Slipper Gambling Hall and Saloon. After that, she was a featured showgirl in the "Vive Paris Vive" show at the Aladdin Hotel. She also was featured in the Maxim Hotel & Casino Burlesque Show, and in 1978 teamed with Bob Mitchell and Miss Nude Universe in "True Olde Tyme Burlesque" at the Joker Club. She was photographed by Robert Scott Hooper for the February 1979 Playboy pictorial "The Girls of Las Vegas". Pettyjohn became quite popular at the Star Trek conventions and in 1979 Hooper photographed her in her Star Trek costume. They produced two posters that she sold at the conventions: one in her complete costume and one nude. During the early 1980s, she made use of her buxom figure in hardcore adult films such as "Titillation" (1982) with Kitten Natividad, "Stalag 69" (1982), and "Body Talk" (1982) under the pseudonyms Angelique or Heaven St. John. In 1984, she returned to mainstream cinema with a part in "Repo Man", starring Emilio Estevez and Olivia Barash. Executive producer Michael Nesmith was in the band and TV show "The Monkees". In 2010, Olivia Barash revealed that her agent told her not to try out for this movie by no-name people, but "I was rebellious, and I went." Her agent kept asking her not to do the movie, because it was "never going to do anything." This movie is ranked #7 on Entertainment Weekly's "Top 50 Cult Films of All-Time". In 1988, Angelique Pettyjohn was cast in the musical comedy "The Wizard of Speed and Time". This was her final film. Angelique Pettyjohn died from cervical cancer in 1992 in Las Vegas. She was 48.

88. Teressa Macky

Actress | Double Exposure

Teressa Macky is known for Double Exposure (1982).

(USA)

Explicit nudity in "Double Exposure" (1983).

Co-stars James Stacy and Joanna Pettet are both fictionally portrayed in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time in Hollywood while Michael Callan's name appears on a poster of the main character, actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio). Joanna Pettet was very nervous about doing her nude scene.

89. Maruschka Detmers

Actress | Prénom Carmen

Maruschka Detmers was born in the Netherlands in 1962, but moved to France when she was a teenager to work as an au-pair.

During her time in France, she came to the notice of French avant-garde director Jean-Luc Godard and was signed to played the female lead in First Name: Carmen (1983), also ...

(The Netherlands)

Explicit nudity in "Prénom Carmen" also known as "First Name: Carmen" (1983)
Explicit sex in "Diavolo In Corpo" also known as "Devil in the Flesh" (1986)

She was respectively 20 and 23 at the time of filming.

Maruschka Detmers moved to France as a teenager after finishing school. In 1983, she made her dramatic acting debut under Godard's direction in "Prénom Carmen". It was French producer Alain Sarde who brought the 20 year-old Dutch girl, just out of an acting class and without any film experience behind her, to the attention of Jean-Luc Godard. Godard was persuaded by her perfectly fitting physical type for the role of a sensual and melancholic Carmen and by how very comfortable she was with nudity in the presence of the male protagonist during the audition. "Prénom Carmen" was initially starring Isabelle Adjani in the lead role. Adjani, who had achieved international fame in François Truffaut’s "The Story of Adele H." (1975), left the set after a week of filming, finding Godard’s alienating approach to actors traumatic. "Prénom Carmen" won the Golden Lion at the 1983 Venice Film Festival and Maruschka Detmers started an international career, working alternately in France, Germany and the US. She worked in popular cinema and auteur cinema collaborating with directors as diverse as Claude Zidi, Jacques Doillon, Éric Barbier, Daniel Vigne and Manuel Poirier. The following year, she shared sapphic sex scenes with Jane Birkin in Jacques Doillon's "La Pirate" also known as "The Pirate" (1984), also starring Philippe Léotard and Laure Marsac, who won the César Award of Most Promising Actress for her performance. In 1986, she starred in "Devil in the Flesh", a movie which caused a scandal, as it was the first major film to feature an A-list actress performing an unsimulated fellatio on screen. The oral sex scene between Maruschka Detmers and Federico Pitzalis wasn't part of the script. It was Massimo Fagioli, a Marco Bellocchio's collaborator, who suggested it. Maruschka says she accepted to shoot it because she had now merged into the character and that it was a moment of absolute intensity. She recalls that she and her co-star were left alone with the camera shooting. Director, operator and Mr. Fagioli were out waiting for the event. During the scene she did not stop laughing and so Mr. Fagioli said to her, "You idiot! Laugh less and suck!" Maruschka Detmers later expressed some regret for the scene because she said it overshadowed her other accomplishments. Other noteworthy performances include roles in World War II movie "Hanna's War" (1988) with Donald Pleasence and Ellen Burstyn, and in Oscar nominated drama "The Mambo Kings" (1992) with Antonio Banderas and Cathy Moriarty. In 2007, she spent a season on stage in the play "L'Arbre de Joie" alongside French actor François Berléand. In 2008, she played the main role in the romantic comedy "Robert Zimmermann wundert sich über die Liebe", an adaption of the novel of the same name by Gernot Griksch. Detmers is the mother of actress Jade Fortineau, born from her relationship with French actor Thierry Fortineau.

90. Florence Guérin

Actress | Profumo

Florence Guérin was born on June 12, 1965 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. She is an actress and set decorator, known for Bizarre (1987), Le déclic (1985) and The Corruption (1986). She was previously married to Joseph Chionio and Comte Bernard de Villeneuve Esclapon.

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Explicit nudity in "Black Venus" (1983)
Explicit nudity in "Le Déclic" also known as "The Turn-On" (1985)
Explicit nudity in "La Bonne" also known as "Corruption" (1986)
Explicit nudity in "Profumo" also known as "Bizarre" (1987)

She was respectively 18, 20, 21 and 22 at the time of filming

At age 15, Florence Guérin won the Miss Cinema pageant at the Cannes Film Festival in 1980. The following year, at 16, she makes her acting debut as a woman gladiator in Bruno Mattei's "Caligula et Messaline" also known as "Caligula and Messalina" (1981). This film has known a number of different cuts in various countries. The Italian version runs 111 minutes, and has less nudity; the French version runs 96 minutes, and has more nudity. In 1982, she appears in two French comedies. Claude Zidi's "Les sous-doués en vacances" starring Daniel Auteuil and Guy Marchand, and "Plus beau que moi, tu meurs" with Aldo Maccione. In 1983, she turns 18. She is cast in four movies, including Roger Vadim's "Surprise Party" with Caroline Cellier, Christian Vadim, Robert Hossein, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu and Mylène Demongeot, and the erotic drama "Black Venus", alongside Karin Schubert, in which she has her first full frontal nude scene. She plays in another erotic movie called "Vénus" in 1984, again involving full frontal nudity. In 1985, she takes a new dimension. She is the lead actress in "Le Déclic" also known as "The Turn-On", an adaptation of Milo Manara's famous erotic comic of the same name. Producer Alan Siritzky said he had a tough time finding an actress to play lead character Claudia Christiani. He searched all over the world for a gorgeous actress who could play an uptight woman, but was also capable of really becoming wild in the sex scenes. Then Swiss Playboy photographer Otto Wesser suggested Florence Guérin. Roman Polanski introduced her to him when she was 16 years old. He said she was gorgeous and had already performed nude in previous films, so nudity wouldn't be an issue. A few weeks later, Siritzky met with Guerin in front of her apartment building on the way to the airport to fly to New Orleans for filming. He cast her on the spot and she flew to New Orleans a week later. "Le Déclic" was re-released in the US as "The Turn-On" with spiced up sexual action in additional nude scenes performed by starlets Toni Naples, Debra Lamb and Maria Ford. It was Toni Naples' first nude scene. She agreed to do the nudity because she needed the money, but she asked them not to list her name in the credits. In 1986, Florence Guérin stars in the erotic movie "La Bonne" also known as "Corruption" opposite Trine Michelsen. She then plays the lead role in the Italian 'giallo' thriller "Profumo" also known as "Bizarre" (1987). In Jesús Franco's "Faceless" (1988), she joined a cast including Telly Savalas, Stéphane Audran and Caroline Munro. Jesús Franco stated that actress Stéphane Audran agreed to appear in "Faceless" because she was a major fan of horror movies. Following the filming of the rape scene, Gérard Zalcberg was so disgusted by what he did that he started weeping and apologizing terribly to Caroline Munro. Munro comforted him, telling him she understood fully and reminding him that it was truly only acting, not real. At the end of the 80's-beginning of the 90's, Florence Guérin played in several television films and television series, including "Taggart" in 1992. In 1998, she was the victim of a severe road accident caused by a drunkard, in which her 5 year-old son died. She herself was in a coma for a long time and underwent several surgeries. In 2001, she plays one of the lead roles in the romantic drama "The Donor" starring David Carradine. She mostly plays in television series after that. She appears in an episode of the hugely popular "Plus belle la vie" in 2019.

91. Emmanuelle Béart

Actress | 8 femmes

Emmanuelle Béart was born August 14, 1963, in Gassin, France. She lived with her mother, brothers, and sister on a farm not far from Saint-Tropez in Provence (southern France), because her father, singer and poet Guy Béart, did not want his children to be affected by the glamour world of Paris. ...

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Explicit nudity in "Premiers Désirs" also known as "First Desires" (1983)
Explicit nudity in "La Belle Noiseuse" (1991)

She was respectively 20 and 27 at the time of filming.

Emmanuelle Béart is a French film and television actress who has appeared in over 60 films and television productions since 1972.

Béart was born in Gassin, on the French Riviera. She is the daughter of Geneviève Galéa, a former model who is of Croatian, Greek and Maltese descent, and Guy Béart, an Egyptian-born singer and poet. Her father's family was of Sephardic Jewish descent, who later sought refuge in Lebanon during his childhood. Her father left home when she was still very young. She has a half-sister on her father's side, Ève, born in 1959, and six half-siblings on her mother's side.

In 1971, at the age of 8, she appeared as an extra in "La Course du lièvre à travers les champs" also known as "And Hope to Die", a crime drama by René Clément starring Jean-Louis Trintignant. As a child raised in an artistic and show business environment, she has a rebellious temperament. Studies hardly interest her. She dreams of becoming an actress and imitates her school mates. Béart got an acting role at age 12 in the low-budget sci-fi movie "Demain les mômes" also known as "Tomorrow's Children" (1976), starring Niels Arestrup. In her teens she appeared in bit parts in television. In her late teens, she spent her summer vacation with the English-speaking family of a close friend of her father in Montreal. They took her in as their own. At the end of the summer, the family invited her to stay with them and complete her baccalauréat at Collège International Marie de France. There she met the director Robert Altman who encouraged her to become an actress. Upon graduating from the Collège International Marie de France in Montreal, she returned to France to attend drama school in Paris.

In 1983, at the age of 20, she briefly took drama lessons from Jean-Laurent Cochet in Paris. She impressed David Hamilton with her beauty. Three months later, he offered her her first major role in his erotic movie "Premiers Désirs" (1983), a role involving fully naked scenes, alongside her co-star Monica Broeke who is also making her acting debut. She followed this up with Jean-Pierre Dougnac's drama "Un amour interdit" also known as "A Forbidden Love" in 1984, alongside Brigitte Fossey and Agostina Belli, a role also involving nude scenes which earned her to be nominated for the "César for Most Promising Actress" in 1985. Her career as a film actress was launched.

She was cast in her first adult role in a film and achieved international success with her role opposite Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil and Hippolyte Girardot in Claude Berri's French hit "Manon des Sources" also known as "Manon of the Spring" (1986), an adaptation of the Marcel Pagnol book of the same name. For her performance, she won the 1987 César Award for Best Supporting Actress. Yves Montand was raised in the area where the story takes place and had been a friend of Marcel Pagnol. Nevertheless he rejected the role when it was first offered. Montand was ultimately persuaded to take his role by wife Simone Signoret, who died during production. The shooting of this big production will prove to be very trying for Emmanuelle Béart. The famous sequence where Manon bathes naked is not easy for her to shoot. Modest, the actress refuses to undress in front of a hundred technicians. "Even if I am not a barrel, I have difficulties to play this scene", she admits to the director. To unblock the situation, Claude Berri undresses completely and dives into the river naked as a worm to show the example. Stunned, Béart imitates him.

In 1988, she starred in the Edouard Molinaro comedy "À gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur" also known as "Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator", opposite a comedian Pierre Richard at his best, Richard Bohringer and Fanny Cottençon. The director could not resist the temptation to display the beautiful assets of Emmanuelle Béart. She spent almost the entire duration of the movie in sheer underwear and he included a scene where she opened her bathing towel revealing her fully naked body to provoke her overly jealous boyfriend.

In 1991, she achieved great success in Jacques Rivette's drama "La Belle Noiseuse", based on the short story "The Unknown Masterpiece" written by nineteenth-century french novelist Honoré de Balzac, also starring Jane Birkin and Marianne Denicourt, where she played a young woman who poses nude for former famous painter Edouard Frenhofer played by Michel Piccoli. There was no script per se. The film was shot in sequential order and the day's shooting was dictated by what had been filmed the day before. Reportedly, around 75% of the shooting schedule was dedicated to film Emmanuelle Béart's very lengthy nude scenes. Despite the explicit nature of the nudity, all of the nudity in the movie is non-sexual. Emmanuelle Béart had hinted in an interview that Marianne in La Belle Noiseuse remains the most physically and emotionally taxing role she has ever taken in her long career. The frank and extensive nudity Emmanuelle Béart did in this film seemed to extract a heavy toll on her, so much that she admitted that, ever since the release of this film, she had been able to draw the courage to view it in its entirety only once, at the premiere of the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. After she filmed any of her protracted nude scene in front of the camera, Emmanuelle Béart had to repeat the same nude pose for the painter Bernard Dufour, who produced the drawings for the film, in private. About her role in this film, Emmanuelle Béart said, "It's funny, I had always sworn to myself never to play naked in the cinema, because I find that there is an overdose on the way in which the female body is exploited. And then Jacques arrived. He told me: 'You are going to play naked.' And it was exciting to exploit that nudity. Because it's a real woman playing. And the look of Jacques, that of Michel too, because for me they are inseparable, helped me a lot. But it's true that when you find yourself naked in front of the camera, it's very difficult. I had a few seconds of real discomfort. I wasn't hurt, just paralyzed. I was very scared. I was unable to move. I no longer had a shell. And then I gradually relaxed. The team was small and I never feared the gaze of people on set. Little by little, I took real physical pleasure in giving something. My body became active. Of course, there were moments of total refusal. I felt like an object. I wanted to escape this image of woman-object. But I especially wanted to transform the image of the model. I wanted this painting to be done in pairs. Between this woman and this painter, there is a clash of two gazes. She looks at him and provokes him. And she doesn't want to let go."

The following year, she played opposite Daniel Auteuil again in Claude Sautet's drama "Un coeur en hiver" also known as "A Heart in Winter" (1992), in which she played the role of a young and talented violinist who falls under the spell of someone (Daniel Auteuil) who feels no feeling for her and manipulates her until she notices. Emmanuelle Béart learned to play the violin for the part. In 1995, Emmanuelle Béart was approached by Hollywood for Brian De Palma's spy movie hit "Mission: Impossible", alongside Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave and Jean Reno. Her role was originally offered to Juliette Binoche and Geneviève Bujold. The same year, Empire magazine ranked Emmanuelle Béart 32nd in the list of "100 Sexiest Stars in film history". Released during the summer of 1996, the blockbuster achieved worldwide critical and commercial success, but the actress did not appreciate the Hollywood spirit and quickly returned to France, where she performed in plays and reconnected with French auteur cinema. In 1997, she played the leading female role in the adaptation "Don Juan", by Jacques Weber who also took on the title role. Then she co-starred in the Raoul Ruiz "Le Temps Retrouvé" also known as "Time Regained" (1999), based of the work of Marcel Proust, with Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Deneuve's daughter Chiara Mastroianni, Vincent Perez, John Malkovich, Marie-France Pisier, Arielle Dombasle, Elsa Zylberstein, Christian Vadim and Mathilde Seigner. She then played in a new female tandem, which she presented at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, opposite Sandrine Bonnaire for "Voleur de vie" (1998) also known as "Thief of Life", also starring André Dussollier, Vahina Giocante and Bulle Ogier. She concluded this decade with a popular film with great success, Danièle Thompson's dramatic comedy "La Bûche" also known as "The Log" (1999), alongside Sabine Azéma, Claude Rich, Françoise Fabian, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Isabelle Carré and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

At the start of the Millenium, she headlined Olivier Assayas' drama "Les Destinées Sentimentales" also known as "Sentimental Destinies" (2000), alongside Isabelle Huppert and Charles Berling, a movie presented at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Her performance earned her a fifth nomination for the César for best actress. The following year, she played with Dieudonné and Anémone for the light comedy "Clairvoyance and Manigance" also known as "Fortune Tellers and Misfortune" (2001), which went unnoticed. She therefore (re)focused on auteur cinema. She presented Catherine Corsini's drama "La Répétition" also known as "Replay" (2001), at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. But, above all, she enjoyed great critical and commercial success thanks to the choral film "Huit Femmes" also known as "8 Women" (2002), by François Ozon. She is part of a five-star cast composed of Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant, Firmine Richard, Virginie Ledoyen and Ludivine Sagnier.

At the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, she headlined André Téchiné's historical drama "Les Égarés" also known as "Strayed" (2003) assisted by a young Gaspard Ulliel. The sex scene between Gaspard Ulliel and Emmanuelle Béart was shot on the last day of filming and Gaspard had anguish the day before, because it was his first real nude scene. In the morning, they did a rehearsal, he in underwear and she in gym clothes. Then she played the main female role in one of Jacques Rivette's last feature films, the romance "Histoire de Marie et Julien" also known as "The Story of Marie and Julien" (2003), also starring Anne Brochet. Finally, she returns to the roles of femme fatale for the drama "Nathalie..." (2003), by Anne Fontaine, opposite Fanny Ardant and Gérard Depardieu. It was released to French theaters exactly one year and one day after the first day of filming. Vanessa Paradis was initially cast as Nathalie but dropped out due to being pregnant with her second child, Jack Depp. The same year, aged 39, she posed nude on the cover of the May 2003 issue of the French edition of Elle magazine during a report produced for the magazine in Mauritius. The entire run of 550,000 copies sold out in just three days, making it the biggest-selling issue in the fashion glossy's long history.

In Danis Tanović's drama "L'enfer" also known as "Hell" (2005), the actress shared the bill with Karin Viard and Marie Gillain. At the same time, she became the face of the Danish jewelry brand Pilgrim and is part of the jury of the 57th Cannes Film Festival. In 2006, she played one of the main roles in the American thriller "A Crime", opposite Norman Reedus and Harvey Keitel. In 2007, the choral drama "Les Témoins" also known as "The Witnesses", which marked her reunion with André Téchiné, was critically acclaimed. The 2000s were also synonymous with changes for the actress, who, unable to accept growing old, decided to go under the knife several times. She then fell victim to surgical setbacks. Critics even went so far as to accuse her of no longer being able to act, due to the tightening of some of the muscles of her face and mouth in particular, following a series of corrections started at the age of 27.

In 2008, she surprised by defending three very different projects: first of all, she ventured into school comedy with "Disco" (2008), by Fabien Onteniente, opposite Franck Dubosc, Gérard Depardieu, Isabelle Nanty and Samuel Le Bihan. Then she headlined an international co-production directed by Fabrice Du Welz, the horror film "Vinyan" (2008), alongside Rufus Sewell and Julie Dreyfus. It frequently rained during the filming of this picture. Emmanuelle Béart got a double ear infection while acting in this movie. Finally, she plays one of the three stars of Lætitia Colombani's black comedy "Mes stars et moi" also known as "My stars" (2008), alongside Catherine Deneuve, Mélanie Bernier, Kad Merad and Maria de Medeiros. In 2010, she played the leading female role in Renaud Bertrand's dramatic comedy "Nous Trois" also known as "Just the Three of Us", then headlined Isabelle Brocard's drama about euthanasia for terminally ill people "Ma compagne de nuit" (2011).

Between 2013 and 2014, she alternated between the experimental movie "Par exemple, Electre" by and with Jeanne Balibar and Pierre Léon, and the popular Cécile Telerman drama "Les Yeux Jaunes Des Crocodiles" also known as "The Yellow Eyes of the Crocodiles", with Jacques Weber, Samuel Le Bihan, Julie Depardieu and Alysson Paradis. She also played the leading role opposite Harrison Gilbertson in the Australian drama "My Mistress" (2014), by Stephen Lance. Stephen Lance kept Emmanuelle Beart and Harrison Gilbertson apart, rehearsing them separately and scheduling scenes in such a way that he "could see their relationship unfold, so that there was a kind of discovery happening on camera".

She then made herself more discreet in cinema, preferring to concentrate on theater. She had already stated in 2010 that theater was a priority for her, to the detriment of cinema. She worked in particular with the director Stanislas Nordey, who chose her as an associate artist since taking office in 2014 as director of the National Theater of Strasbourg. In 2017, she played in the New Zealand drama "Beyond the Known World", by Pan Nalin. In 2019, she reunited with Jeanne Balibar for the dramatic comedy "Merveilles à Montfermeil" also known as "Wonders in the Suburbs", alongside Mathieu Amalric. In 2022, she played in Mikhaël Hers' drama "Les Passagers de la Nuit" also known as "The Passengers of the Night", alongside Charlotte Gainsbourg and Noée Abita.

In addition to her screen work, Béart is known for her social activism. Thanks to her mother, who founded the charity “Réflexe Solidarité”, Emmanuelle Béart has been involved in the humanitarian environment since her childhood. From 1996 to 2006, she was ambassador for the French committee for UNICEF. During these ten years, she carried out missions around the world in favor of the cause of abused children. She made news for her opposition to France's anti-immigration legislation. In 1996, she made headlines when, defending the rights of irregular immigrants. The House Dior terminated her contract after her group's occupation of a Parisian church. In March 2012, Béart spoke out against plastic surgery in "Le Monde, saying that she regretted having an operation on her lips in 1990. She openly admitted: “I had my mouth done at the age of 27. It’s no secret, it’s a failure.” Refusing to judge people who, like her, have gone under the scalpel, she nevertheless says she has become opposed to cosmetic surgery. In a 2023 documentary, she revealed that she was a victim of incest as a child but declined to reveal the identity of the abuser, only stating that it was not her father.

In 1984, Emmanuelle Béart met Daniel Auteuil, on the set of the film "L'Amour en Douce" also known as "Love on the Quiet" (1985). They live together for ten years and have a daughter. They married in 1993, had a daughter and divorced in 1995. Subsequently, she had a two-year relationship with the music composer David François Moreau, half-brother of singer Patrick Bruel. The couple separated shortly after the birth of their son. In 2000, she was seduced by producer Vincent Meyer during the filming of Catherine Corsini's drama "La Répétition" (2001). Their union ended tragically with Meyer's suicide in Paris, while Béart presented "Les Égarés" by André Téchiné in competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. She married actor Michaël Cohen in August 2008 and in 2009 they adopted a child from Ethiopia. Béart and Cohen separated in 2011. In 2011, she began a romantic relationship with director and cinematographer Frédéric Chaudier. They married in 2018.

92. Isabelle Huppert

Actress | Elle

Isabelle Huppert was born March 16, 1953, in Paris, France, but spent her childhood in Ville d'Avray. Encouraged by her mother Annick Huppert (who was a teacher of English), she followed the Conservatory of Versailles and won an acting prize for her work in Alfred de Musset's "Un caprice". She then...

(France)

Explicit nudity in "La Femme De Mon Pote" also known as "My Best Friend's Girl" (1983)
Explicit nudity in "Malina" (1991)
Explicit nudity in "Elle" (2016)

She was respectively 29, 37 and 63 at the time of filming.

Isabelle Huppert was born in Paris into a wealthy and large family. Her father was the director of a company manufacturing safes and a Commander of the Legion of Honor. Her mother was an English teacher, passionate about the piano. On her mother's side, she is a great-granddaughter of one of the Callot Soeurs, one of the leading fashion design houses of the 1910s and 1920s. The youngest child, Isabelle has a brother who became a writer and three sisters, including filmmaker Caroline Huppert. She received a solid education in the field of arts and culture. She is raised in Catholicism, the religion of her mother, while her father comes from a family of Jewish origin in the former Austria-Hungary. She was encouraged by her mother to begin acting at a young age and became a teenage star in Paris. After high school, she studied Slavic languages and attended the Conservatoire de Versailles at the same time, where she won a prize for her acting. She is also an alumna of the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique (CNSAD). Her knowledge of languages allowed her to play roles in English, Italian and Russian during her acting career. Huppert made her television debut at 18 in "Le Prussien" in 1971 and her film debut at 19 in "Faustine et le Bel Été" also known as "Faustine and the Beautiful Summer" (1972), the sensual coming of age romantic drama starring Muriel Catalá, Isabelle Adjani, Francis Huster and Jacques Weber. It was also Nathalie Baye's debut. That same year, she had a role in Claude Sautet's "César et Rosalie" (1972), the cult movie reuniting Romy Schneider and Yves Montand. She then got another rather discreet role in Alain Robbe-Grillet's cult erotic thriller "Glissements progressifs du plaisir" (1974), starring Anicée Alvina, Olga Georges-Picot, Michael Lonsdale and Jean-Louis Trintignant. Her role of a rebellious young girl in search of emancipation in Bertrand Blier's controversial "Les Valseuses" also known as "Going Places" (1974) with Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere and Brigitte Fossey, made her increasingly recognized by the public. Isabelle Huppert was 21 when she shot this movie although her character is said to be 16. One of the most erotic scenes of this movie takes place in an empty train. A young woman (Brigitte Fossey), alone in a wagon with the two thugs played by Dewaere and Depardieu, "has the unfortunate idea of breastfeeding her baby. A rather raw sex scene follows where Patrick Dewaere sucks the breast of the young woman who finally takes pleasure herself. Brigitte Fossey "was not scared" but Bertrand Blier still remembers a moment when the actress was a little uneasy. "She felt a little dizzy when she found herself wedged between the two guys, one suckling her and the other titillating her from behind," Blier recalls, laughing. In an interview, Miou-Miou said that she kept from this film "a very powerful memory, very collective, with Dewaere and Depardieu. We were sometimes asked to do things that were not hard, but a little complicated to do. By dint of pulling down my panties and pulling up my apron, I was getting a little tired of it. But the three of us loved each other very much. We were like a litter of puppies." Despite being already rated "18", the German version was heavily cut. The following year, Isabelle Huppert was also noticed for her roles as a raw artist in "Aloïse" (1975) by Liliane de Kermadec and as a young camper raped by Jean Carmet in "Dupont Lajoie" (1975) by Yves Boisset. According to Yves Boisset in his biography, Jean Carmet was scared to death before the shooting of the rape sequence. Isabelle Huppert, who plays the victim, reassured him. Jean Carmet, who impersonates a nasty racist man, encountered many problems after the release of the film because of this character. He discouraged his step daughter to become actress for this reason. In 1976, Bertrand Tavernier gave her an important secondary role alongside Philippe Noiret, Jean-Claude Brialy and Michel Galabru in "Le juge et l'assassin" also known as "The Judge and the Assassin", a crime drama based on a true story. Her international breakthrough came with "La Dentelliere" also known as "The Lacemaker" (1977), adaptation of the novel by Pascal Lainé of the same name, for which she won a BAFTA award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. Isabelle Huppert plays the role of an introverted apprentice hairdresser, who suffers from a heartache. This image of victim and sickly fragility pursued her in several of her early films, at the risk of locking her into somewhat repetitive roles, like in "La storia vera della signora dalle camelie" also known as "Lady of the Camelias" (1981), in which she shares the screen with Gian Maria Volontè and Clio Goldsmith. At the same time, she shattered this trend by giving substance, in front of Claude Chabrol's camera, to the title character of "Violette Nozière" (1978), famous parricide of the 1930s. It was her first "borderline role", which elevated her to the rank of national star and earned her the prize for female interpretation at the 1978 Cannes festival. This range of emotions, to which she devoted a strong loyalty, allowed her to make the madness and morbid impulses of her characters credible without lapsing into hysteria. She kept this style of play until the early 1980s, and played a lot on the ambiguity of her characters: a little girl's physique but a certain attraction for sexuality. Building on her succcess, Isabelle Huppert was sought after by a series of great filmmakers: Maurice Pialat for "Loulou" (1980) with Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Luc Godard for "Sauve qui peut (la vie)" also known as "Every Man for Himself" (1980) with Nathalie Baye and singer/actor Jacques Dutronc, Jean-Luc Godard again for "Passion" (1982) with Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli and Myriem Roussel, and Michael Cimino for "Heaven's Gate" (1980) with Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt and Jeff Bridges. Tom Noonan called this movie one of the worst experiences of his life. He claimed that Michael Cimino abused the actors, actresses and the crew, including holding a loaded gun to Noonan's head during a dispute. Stories abounded that he was tearing down sets for no reason, and hiring and firing crew members almost weekly. Willem Dafoe claims that Michael Cimino fired him after eight months of filming. This movie opened to poor reviews and was a box office failure. Decades later, the film has been reassessed, with some critics considering it an overlooked masterpiece. France is the only country in the world to have successfully screened the three hour and thirty-nine minute version theatrically since 1980 to critical and commercial acclaim, most probably thanks to Isabelle Huppert's presence in the cast. According to Isabelle Huppert, Writer and Director Michael Cimino decided to cast her after seeing a clip from "Violette Nozière" after it was released in the U.S.. To prepare for her role as a prostitute Madame, she spent three days observing in a brothel in Wallace, Idaho. Isabelle Huppert was cast over the objection of United Artists executives. Michael Cimino insisted on casting her and threatened to take this movie to Warner Bros, so United Artists capitulated. Even afterwards, Steven Bach, at one point, told Cimino to his face, that his leading lady was so unappealing, that the audience was going to wonder why Kris Kristofferson and Christopher Walken "weren't fucking each other, instead of her". Cimino told him to go fuck himself. Michael Cimino kept an armed security guard posted outside the editing room during post-production to keep United Artists executives from interrupting him. This is considered one of the most notorious screen disasters in the history of cinema. The movie was a commercial and critical disaster that destroyed Cimino's career as a director. It nearly bankrupted United Artists, which subsequently had to merge with MGM. At that time, Isabelle Huppert shared the life of Daniel Toscan du Plantier, producer at Gaumont, who set up tailor-made projects for her with renowned filmmakers such as André Téchiné in "Les soeurs Brontë" also known as "The Brontë Sisters" (1979), Márta Mészáros in "Örökség" also known as "The Inheritance" (1980), Michel Deville in "Eaux profondes" also known as "Deep Waters" (1981), and Joseph Losey in "La Truite" also known as "The Trout" (1982). In 1981, Bertrand Tavernier gave her a role at odds with what she was then used to playing with "Coup de torchon", also starring Philippe Noiret, Stéphane Audran and Jean-Pierre Marielle. Isabelle Huppert then asserted a more extroverted, dynamic and comic acting style, which she would keep for several films in the following years, like in Bertrand Blier's comedy "La femme de mon pote" also known as "My Best Friend's Girl" (1983), also starring Coluche and Thierry Lhermitte, in "Sac de noeuds" (1985), with and from Josiane Balasko for her directional debut, also starring Coluche and Jean Carmet, and in "Signé Charlotte" also known as "Sincerely Charlotte" (1985) under her sister's direction, Caroline Huppert. Isabelle Huppert continued to explore enigmatic and emotionally distant characters, however, most notably in Diane Kurys' "Coup de foudre" also known as "Entre Nous" (1983) alonside Miou-Miou, and in Claude Chabrol's "Une affaire de femmes" (1988). Her daughter Lolita Chammah is among the cast. Isabelle Huppert won the Award for Best Actress at the 1988 Venice Film Festival for her performance. The film is a success and opens an era of rich collaboration between Huppert and Chabrol who then meet every two or three years for a film. In 1989, she returned to the theatre for the play "Un mois à la campagne" by Turgenev. It introduces a new stage in the career of Huppert, who will now return regularly to the theatre stage. From the 1990s, she tackled big roles of the likes of Jeanne d'Arc, Marie Stuart, Médée, Hedda Gabler, Phèdre from great classic authors including Shakespeare, Schiller, Euripide, Marivaux, Claudel, Tourgueniev, under the direction of great figures of the French and foreign theater world. The 1990s definitely established her as one of the great actresses of French cinema and theater. Her theatrical performances were great successes, in particular "Orlando", based on the novel by Virginia Woolf. On the big screen, Isabelle Huppert began an artistic relationship with Werner Schroeter in "Malina" in 1991, and in "Deux" in 2002. She portrayed a manic and homicidal post-office worker in Claude Chabrol's "La Cérémonie (1995)", with Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset, Virginie Ledoyen and Jean-Pierre Cassel. Her performance earned her the César for best actress. She continued her cinematic relationship with Chabrol in "Rien ne va plus" also known as "The Swindle" (1997), with Michel Serrault, and "Merci pour le Chocolat" (2000) with Anna Mouglalis and Jacques Dutronc. She starred in Michael Haneke's "La Pianiste" also known as "The Piano Teacher" (2001), also starring Annie Girardot and Benoît Magimel, which is based on a novel of the same name "Die Klavierspielerin" by Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Isabelle Huppert really played the piano in the film. Isabelle Huppert's performance in this film is considered to be one of the greatest of the previous decade and inspired actresses like Jessica Chastain and Nicole Kidman. This movie notoriously received three of the most important awards at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival: Grand Prix, Best Actress, and Best Actor. Since this edition of the festival, there is a rule which forbids the jury to give so many important prizes to the same movie. Also an acclaimed stage actress, Huppert received seven Molière Award nominations, including for the titular role in a 2001 Paris production of "Médée", directed by Jacques Lassalle. The following year, Isabelle Huppert returned to comedy. She was part of the prestigious cast of "8 Femmes" also known as "8 Women" by François Ozon, also starring Catherine Deneuve, Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Virginie Ledoyen and Ludivine Sagnier. Her partner, the director Ronald Chammah, founded the company Les Films du Camélia, which enabled him to finance films in which she holds the lead role, such as "Ma Mère" also known as "My Mother" (2004), in which she shares the screen with Emma de Caunes, Louis Garrel and Joana Preiss. Here, Huppert plays an attractive middle-aged mother who has an incestuous relationship with her teenage son. In 2009, Huppert was the President of the Jury at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. In 2012, she starred in two films that competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival: Michael Haneke's "Amour" and Hong Sang-soo's "In Another Country", with the former winning the top prize. In 2016, she starred in two films that received widespread critical acclaim: Mia Hansen-Løve's "L'avenir" also known as "Things to Come", which premiered at the Berlinale, and "Elle" with Virginie Efira, Anne Consigny, Vimala Pons, which premiered at Cannes. The initial plan was to produce the movie in the United States, but there were problems finding a female lead. Nicole Kidman, Sharon Stone, Julianne Moore and Diane Lane were offered the role, but they all passed on the opportunity. Marion Cotillard and Carice van Houten were also considered. When Isabelle Huppert heard of the plans to adapt the book, she called to express her interest in the project. When she landed the lead role, she requested that Paul Verhoeven be asked to direct. It was then decided to relocate the shoot to France, since there would be no American lead and no American company was willing to produce such a controversial film. Although Huppert had difficulties relating to her character, Verhoeven was exceptionally pleased with her performance, stating that she brought things to the role beyond what was written in the script. During the rape scene, Isabelle Huppert struggles and then says 'Arrête!' ('Stop it!', in French), which was not written in the script. "It was very violent, I must say. I was a little scared, too. So I had to make them understand that they shouldn't go any further... Sometimes, when there are very physical scenes, like this one, you can hurt yourself. It's part of the things that you don't understand. It was not planned that I say it, even less in French. I felt that they needed to hear something different"- Huppert says. Huppert won the Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama at the 2017 Golden Globes. In 2021, she gives a convincing performance for her role in "Les promesses" also known as "Promises", a movie cleverly putting some light on the dodgy negotiations ambitious politicians make to further their career. Huppert holds the record for being the actress with the most films entered in the official competition of the Cannes Film Festival. As of 2022, she has had 22 films in the main competition and a total of 29 films screened at the festival. Huppert's frequent Cannes' appearances have led her to be dubbed "the queen of Cannes" by journalists. She was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 1999 and was promoted to Officier (Officer) in 2009. She was selected for Honorary Golden Bear Lifetime Achievement Award at 72nd Berlin International Film Festival awarded on 15 February 2022 in festival award ceremony at Berlinale Palást. She is the most nominated actress for the Molière Award, with nine nominations. In the same year, she was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize. Her career shows no signs of slowing down. In 2022, she played in "L'ombra di Caravaggio" also known as "Caravaggio's Shadow", a franco-italian production also starring Riccardo Scamarcio, Micaela Ramazzotti, Louis Garrel and her daughter, Lolita Chammah with whom she plays for the fifth time. In 2023, she starred in François Ozon's mystery comedy "Mon crime" also known as "The Crime Is Mine", an adaptation of the 1934 play of the same name by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil, alongside Fabrice Luchini, Nadia Tereszkiewicz and Rebecca Marder, two young rising actresses who got their breakthrough roles the previous year. Isabelle Huppert's character was based on famous theater actress Sarah Bernhardt.

93. Denise Dumont

Actress | Radio Days

Denise Dumont is considered the typical girl from Rio de Janeiro. Born in the state of Ceará, Brazil, in a family of artists, she is the only daughter of musician Humberto Teixeira with pianist Margarida Polis Teixeira. Her father Humberto, known as "Doctor Baião", died in 1979, was co-author of ...

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Explicit sex in "Rio Babilônia" (1983)

She was 28 at the time of filming.

Denise Dumont is a Brazilian actress, model and producer. She is the daughter of Humberto Teixeira, a songwriter made famous for the highly popular song 'Asa Branca' ('White Wing") written jointly with legendary musician Luiz Gonzaga, and actress and pianist Margot Bittencourt (also known under her married name Margarida Teixeira). Denise Dumont had a son with actor Cláudio Marzo and a daughter with producer Matthew Chapman. She started her acting career at age 18 in the televisions series "O Semideus" (1973). Her feature film debut was in the drama "Terror e Êxtase" also known as "Horror and Ecstasy" in 1979, in which her character is abducted and develops feelings for her kidnapper, a role involving full frontal nudity. She rose to fame in 1980, with a lead role in the television series "Marina", which she played during 138 episodes. She then goes back to features films with a succession of films involving nude scenes. During that time, Denise Dumont became a sex symbol. She posed naked for Playboy twice; in August 1980 and in January 1981. It includes the drama "Eros, O Deus do Amor" also known as "Eros, the God of Love" (1981) opposite actress Lilian Lemmertz and Kate Lyra, a film in which Marcelo Ribeiro plays a 12 year old boy who has underage sex with an older woman. Marcelo Ribeiro revealed that he felt horny when playing the sex scene with Kate Lyra, he even used duct tape on his private parts to avoid getting an erection. In the drama "Filhos e Amantes" also known as "Children and Lovers" (1982), she plays the role of a young edonistic girl who experiences the freedom of sex and drugs with some friends. "Rio Babilônia" is a drama about drug dealers lifestyles including sex parties, murders and police confrontations. It was filmed in the real slums on Babilônia hill just behind Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro. Pedro Aguinaga talked about the (in)famous threesome sex scene between him, Denise Dumont and Joel Barcellos: "It was all crazy. The filming of the party scene lasted ten days. There were 150 people in black ties and another 150 naked. Denise and Joel were together in the pool, in love. While she was simulating oral sex on me, he was literally screwing her." In 1986, she appeared in an episode of the internationally known televisions series "The Equalizer". In 1988, she plays in Matthew Chapman's thriller "Heart of Midnight" starring Jennifer Jason Leigh. In 1998, she is cast in the drama "Heartwood" starring Hilary Swank and legendary actor Jason Robards.

94. Béatrice Romand

Actress | Le genou de Claire

Béatrice Romand was born on April 16, 1952 in Birkadem, Alger, Algeria. She is an actress and director, known for Claire's Knee (1970), A Good Marriage (1982) and Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre (1967).

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Explicit nudity in "La casa del tappeto giallo" also known as "The House of the Yellow Carpet" (1983)

She was 31 at the time of filming.

Béatrice Romand starts her career at age 18 in the television mini-series "Mauregard" (1970), immediately followed by her feature film debut in Eric Rohmer's romantic drama "Le genou de Claire" also known as "Claire's Knee" (1970) with Jean-Claude Brialy and Fabrice Luchini. She went on to play in five more Eric Rohmer movies; "L'amour, l'après-midi" also known as "Chloe in the Afternoon" (1972), "Le beau mariage" also known as "A Good Marriage" (1982) with André Dussollier and Arielle Dombasle, "Le rayon vert" also known as "The Green Ray" (1986), winner of the Golden Lion award at the 1986 Venice Film Festival, "4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle" also known as "Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle" (1987) with Fabrice Luchini, and "Conte d'automne" also known as "Autumn Tale" (1998), winner of the Best Screenplay and the Sergio Trasatti - Special Mention awards at the 1998 Venice Film Festival. In 1983, she plays in the psychological thriller "The House of the Yellow Carpet", the first film by Carlo Lizzani who was the director of the Venice Film Festival for four years.

95. Anna Forrest

Actress | Blue Thunder

Anna Forrest is known for Blue Thunder (1983).

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Explicit nudity in "Blue Thunder" (1983).

Anna Forrest is a bit of an oddball in this list as she is not an actress. She is a yoga teacher and was recruited to appear in the Oscar nominated action movie "Blue Thunder" starring Roy Scheider and Malcolm McDowell while practicing yoga in the buff. Another take of that scene was shot for the TV censors with Anna wearing workout clothes. Malcolm McDowell was cast at the last minute but was unaware that he had to fly in a helicopter. He actually hated flying and no one, not even his wife, could persuade him to overcome his phobia. When his wife saw the movie, she was incredulous and asked the filmmakers 'How did you get him inside that little helicopter? I couldn't even get him inside a plane!' During the final battle scene, McDowell's grimaces were caught on film clearly displaying his discomfort at being in the air.

96. Valérie Kaprisky

Actress | Breathless

Valérie Kaprisky was born on August 19, 1962 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She is an actress, known for Breathless (1983), Mouvements du désir (1994) and The Public Woman (1984). She has been married to Jean-Yves d'Angelo since 2011.

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Explicit nudity in "La Femme Publique" also known as "The Public Woman" (1984)

She was 22 at the time of filming.

Valérie Kaprisky is of Greek-Ottoman and Argentine descent on her father's side. Kaprisky is her Polish mother's maiden name. At 17, she attended high school during the day and acting classes in the evening at the prestigious Cours Florent in Paris. Immediately after graduating, she joined a modeling agency. After appearing in a few commercials, she was noticed by casting director Dominique Besnehard and filmmaker Jean-Marie Poiré who chose her for her first role on the big screen in "Les hommes préfèrent les grosses" (1981), litterally translated as "Men Prefer Fat Girls", a comedy starring Josiane Balasko, Daniel Auteuil and Thierry Lhermitte. In 1982, she is cast in "Aphrodite", an erotic drama based on Greek mythology starring Horst Buchholz, Catherine Jourdan and legendary actress Capucine. There is a hardcore version of this film as well as the R rated version. She was 20 when she was cast as the lead role in "Breathless" (1983) opposite 33-year old Richard Gere, an American remake of Jean-Luc Godard's "A bout de souffle" (1960). Nastassja Kinski was initially considered for the role but nude photos of Kaprisky were seen by producer Martin Erlichman and led to her being interviewed and cast in the movie. Reportedly, during casting, Gere wanted Kaprisky because she was someone he would like to make love to. Gere and Kaprisky are both seen in full frontal nudity in the film. Of the love scenes in the film, Valérie Kaprisky once said that they were not just acting: "It was wonderful working with Richard. He gives you everything to react to. We were not acting the love scenes. They were half real. You can't say you only act when they say 'Action!'...I think if you don't really feel like doing it, it shows." In 1984, she was nominated for a César award for Best Actress thanks to her performance as an aspiring actress engaged in a sultry relationship with her artistic director in Andrzej Zulawski's movie "La Femme Publique" also known as "The Public Woman" opposite Lambert Wilson and Francis Huster. The film is a success and largely contributes to the launch of her career. Valérie Kaprisky took dance lessons to prepare for her two nude dance scenes. Sylvia Kristel was originally cast for the role but she had scheduling conflicts with her participation in "Mata Hari" (1985). The same year, Valérie Kaprisky then plays the role of a seductive and manipulative teenager in "L'Année des Méduses" also known as "Year of the Jellyfish" (1984), opposite Bernard Giraudeau and Caroline Cellier. The fact that she frequently appears naked in "La Femme Publique" and "L'Année des Méduses" draws a lot of attention on her. At the end of the 80s, she decided not to accept any more roles involving nudity. She then declared “It's true that, suddenly, I had a problem with nudity. I had accepted it because most female roles required it in the 80s. But I had the feeling that we only remembered that. At one point, finding myself naked on a set seemed unbearable!» Her refusal of nudity contributed to the scarcity of role proposals made to her. She was also affected by the commercial failure of "Milena" (1990), a drama in which she shared the screen with Stacy Keach. She played under the direction of Alexandre Arcady in "Dis-moi oui..." also known as "Tell me yes..." (1995), a romantic comedy with an impressive cast also including Jean-Hugues Anglade, Nadia Farès, Claude Rich, Marie Laforêt, Anouk Aimée and Natacha Régnier. In 2003, she plays one of the lead roles in "Une place parmi les vivants" also known as "A Place Among the Living", opposite Christian Vadim. In 2009, she played one of the main roles in the mini-series "L'Internat". She is also a lyricist. One of her songs “My last song” was selected to appear on the Hôtel Amour Playlist in 2022.

97. Liliana Cameroni

Actress | Programmed to Kill

Liliana Cameroni is known for Programmed to Kill (1987), Grunt! The Wrestling Movie (1985) and The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984).

Explicit nudity in "The Warrior and the Sorceress" (1984).

Liliana Cameroni is a film and television actress. She made her acting debut as an extra under the name Lillian Cameron in the sword and sorcery fantasy movie "The Warrior and the Sorceress", starring David Carradine. The plot is similar to the classic Japanese film "Yōjinbō" (1961) with Toshirō Mifune. She appeared in an episode of the popular television series "Cagney & Lacey" in 1986.

98. Fanny Cottençon

Actress | L'étoile du Nord

Fanny Cottençon was born on May 11, 1957 in Port-Gentil, Gabon. She is an actress and producer, known for L'étoile du Nord (1982), Histoire du chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (1978) and Poussière d'ange (1987).

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Explicit nudity in "Fanny Pelopaja" also known as "Fanny Straw-Top" (1984)
Explicit nudity in "Poil de Carotte" also known as "Carrot Hair" (2003)

She was respectively 27 and 46 at the time of filming.

Fanny Cottençon started her acting career at age 18 as a stage actress. She quickly rose to fame as a film actress after playing in movies starring comedian Francis Perrin three years in a row. "Le roi des cons" also known as "The King of Jerks" in 1981, in which she exhibits full frontal nudity, "Tête à Claques" in 1982 and "Tout le monde peut se tromper" in 1983. She turned to more dramatic roles. That same year, she won the César award for best actress in a supporting role thanks to her performance in "L'étoile du Nord" (1982), a thriller starring legendary actors Simone Signoret and Philippe Noiret. She then played in "Femmes de personne" (1984) with Marthe Keller, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Léotard, Caroline Cellier, Patrick Chesnais and Pierre Arditi. And in crime drama "Fanny Pelopaja" also known as "Fanny Straw-Top" (1984), a role involving graphic nude scenes. She returned to hit comedies with, for instance, roles in "Tant qu'il y aura des femmes" (1987) alongside Roland Giraud, Marianne Basler and Fiona Gélin, and in "A gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur" also known as "Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator" (1988) with Pierre Richard, Emmanuelle Béart and Richard Bohringer. From 1995 to 1999, she played in the France 3 television series "Anne Le Guen", named after the character she played, a councilor in a small provincial town. In 2003, she plays the lead role in "Poil de Carotte" also known as "Carrot Hair", a movie directed by co-star Richard Bohringer in which she had full frontal and full rear nudity scenes. She had a son with director and actor Roger Coggio.

99. Elizabeth McGovern

Actress | Ordinary People

Daughter of a law professor at Northwestern University, she moved with her family to Los Angeles when he transferred to the University of California at Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.). She began acting in school plays at North Hollywood High, graduated from The Oakwood School and then continued her stage ...

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Explicit nudity in "Once Upon a Time in America" (1984).

She was 21 at the time of filming.

Elizabeth McGovern is an American actress and musician. She is of Irish, English, and Scottish descent. Her mother is a high school teacher, her father is a university professor. Her paternal grandfather was William Montgomery McGovern, an adventurer, political scientist, Northwestern University professor, anthropologist and journalist who explored the Amazon, braved uncharted regions of the Himalayas and survived the revolution in Mexico. Her maternal great-grandfathers were U.S. diplomat Ethelbert Watts who played important roles in the Spanish–American War, Russo-Japanese War, and World War I, and Admiral Charles P. Snyder, a four-star admiral in the United States Navy who served as the U.S. Navy's first Naval Inspector General during World War II. And her maternal great-great-grandfather was Congressman Charles P. Snyder, a lawyer, judge and Democratic politician from West Virginia. Her younger sister is novelist Cammie McGovern, the author of four novels for children and young adults. When Elizabeth McGovern was 10 years old, she relocated with her family from Illinois to Los Angeles where her father accepted a teaching position at UCLA School of Law. She attended North Hollywood High School, where she began performing in school plays. After high school, she attended the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and studied toward a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama at the Juilliard School in New York City, one of the most prestigious performing arts schools in the world. At age 19, she was offered a part in the acclaimed Robert Redford movie "Ordinary People" (1980) starring Donald Sutherland, while still studying at Juilliard. The school permitted her to do the film on the condition that she leaves for Chicago each Friday night and returns on Sunday, filming only on Saturdays. It was the first time Juilliard had ever permitted a student to make a film during a school term. Had Elizabeth McGovern not been able to accept the role, it would have gone to Marie Osmond. She graduated the following year and, at 20 years-old, immediately earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Evelyn Nesbit in Milos Forman's "Ragtime" (1981), a role involving full frontal nudity. Evelyn Nesbit was one of the true beauties in turn-of-the-century America. With her Gibson-style hairdo Elizabeth McGovern bears a strong resemblance to her. Nastassja Kinski wanted to play the role, but she couldn't get the accent right. Because she had a nude scene in this movie, Elizabeth McGovern was naturally concerned about what her parents would think. But her mother told her "'Liz, honey, when I saw you up there without any clothes on, I felt so proud of you because it was the least erotic nude scene I've ever watched." In 1984, she starred in Sergio Leone's gangster epic "Once Upon a Time in America" as Robert De Niro's romantic interest. In the script, her character Deborah Gelly was 15 years old. Elizabeth McGovern was 20 when shooting began, 21 when it ended and 22 when the movie premiered. Brooke Shields was offered the role of Deborah Gelly in a conversation with Sergio Leone, but after a writers' strike, Shields didn't reach a financial agreement. Daryl Hannah turned down the role of Deborah and did "Splash" (1984) instead. This was Jennifer Connelly's first feature film role. She was 12 during principal photography. A few days before the film's premiere in 1984, Treat Williams found out the two-hour version, not the three hour and forty-nine minute version, would be shown in theaters. He said that no one was going to understand the movie in the shortened version. Indeed, the film was a box office flop, earning only $5,300,000 on a film budgeted at $30,000,000. It nearly bankrupted The Ladd Company, founded in part by Alan Ladd Jr. in 1979. It was shut out of the Oscars and received no nominations. The film premiered at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival in its original running time of three hours and forty-nine minutes. When the video cassette and DVD versions were released in the original three hour and forty-nine minute version, the film eventually found commercial success. Elizabeth McGovern was asked about the film's most controversial scene when Noodles rapes Deborah in the back seat of a car. "In terms of acting, that scene was, in some ways the easiest of all. There was something very clear to react to. It was incredibly easy to understand, incredibly easy to do. My feeling about that scene, and I hate to admit it, was just 'Oh thank God, I don't have to do any acting, at least I know what I'm doing here. At least I don't feel confused about what I'm supposed to play. In some ways I feel as though the entire experience of making the film, or maybe that entire period of my life, was represented in that scene. I was this young person, incredibly like Deborah, I had a lot of ambition and drive, and I was in a position where I was viewed by the world in a way that had nothing to do with reality, much the same way as Noodles has this image of Deborah. You're being used and you feel used. I suppose many young girls would think of it as the most wonderful thing in the world, to be this hot young movie star that people have sexual or romantic fantasies about but you learn very quickly that who you are is nothing to do with their projection of you. I look back on that whole period of being an object, being someone else's fantasy, as not very nice. I'm relieved not to be that any more. I look back on that period of my life, and the rape was sort of a metaphor for what it felt like." Producer Arnon Milchan, who was Elizabeth McGovern's lover at the time, has a cameo appearance as the chauffeur during the rape scene. In an interview, he described the experience. "There was a scene in the movie where Robert De Niro was supposed to rape Elizabeth in the back seat of a limousine, after she informs him that she's leaving and moving to Hollywood to realize her dream. A real complicated scene. De Niro suddenly suggested that I should play the role of the limousine driver. I reacted with skepticism. After all, I'm not an actor. There were four pages of text in that scene; it was not inconsequential. In any event, the idea caught on, and Sergio Leone conducted a formal audition for me. After that my skepticism suddenly disappeared and I found myself wanting to play the role more than anything in my life. It took 13 takes to get the scene down. Leone literally showed De Niro how to rape Elizabeth and asked De Niro to physically repeat his instructions before filming commenced. I could not even remember how to open the limousine door. On take two I forgot to stop the limousine where I was supposed to. In the meantime, De Niro was repeatedly 'raping' my girlfriend in the back seat... for 13 takes! And you know Robert De Niro, a real actor, every take was from the heart! He was totally committed to the realism of the scene. And I was supposed to stop the limousine and ask Elizabeth, 'Are you all right?' as I exited the limousine, opened the door, and removed my hat. That's it. In the end, they cut the scene down so much that I was only left with that one line, 'Are you all right?' And even after that, Leone did not like the sound of my voice so he hired another actor to do a voice-over. It was a completely humiliating experience, but it was exhilarating at the same time." In a 2016 interview with IGN, Hans Zimmer named the score of "Once Upon a Time in America" by Ennio Morricone as his favorite film score of all time. Elizabeth McGovern had leading roles in two other films that year. The comedy "Lovesick" (1983) with Dudley Moore and Alec Guinness and "Racing with the Moon" (1984), a coming-of-age story also starring Sean Penn and Nicolas Cage. She starred in the thriller "The Bedroom Window" (1987). She co-starred with Kevin Bacon in romantic comedy "She's Having a Baby" (1988). In 1989, she played Mickey Rourke's girlfriend in "Johnny Handsome". She appeared as a rebellious lesbian in Volker Schlöndorff's film "The Handmaid's Tale" (1990). She teamed with Michael Caine in "A Shock to the System" (1990), a comic mystery about a man who plots the murder of his wife. In the 1994 comedy "The Favor", McGovern played a woman who cheats on her boyfriend played by Brad Pitt. McGovern appeared in a number of films in the 21st century, including "Woman in Gold" (2015), a drama starring Helen Mirren and directed by her husband Simon Curtis. She was cast in the hit superhero comedy "Kick-Ass" (2010) starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz and Nicolas Cage. She also worked on the British drama series "Downton Abbey" from 2010 to 2015 and reprised her role for the "Downton Abbey" film in 2019 and its 2022 sequel. McGovern is also a singer-songwriter and plays the guitar. In 2008 she began fronting the band Sadie and the Hotheads. Throughout 2013, Sadie and the Hotheads toured the UK and Europe and performed in festivals including the Isle of Wight Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

100. Donatella Damiani

Actress | Il peccato di Lola

Donatella Damiani, the artistic name of Donatella Casula, is an Italian actress and model. She was born in January 6, 1955, in Naples, Italy. Donatella is the daughter of a ministerial employee and lives in Rome since she was one year old. The former political science student, began her career in ...

(Italy)

Explicit sex in "Il peccato di Lola" also known as "Lola's Secret" (1984)

She was 29 at the time of filming.

Donatella Damiani is the daughter of a ministry official. She studied political science. At age 21, she made her debut in "Liebes Lager" (1976), a Nazisploitation involving full frontal nudity with an entire cast credited under a pseudonym. In 1979, she has an uncredited role in "Caligola", (in)famous for its plethora of explicit nude scenes and unsimulated sex. The image of Donatella Damiani that has remained most imprinted in the collective mind is that of the soubrette in Federico Fellini's La città delle donne (1980). In this film, Damiani embodies a sweet, protective, seductive, winking, irrepressible woman and, as she herself later admits, "full of contradictions", in an interpretation seasoned with a charming Neapolitan inflection. The films that she later starred in, including Gianfranco Angelucci's "Miele di Donna" also known as "Honey" (1981) opposite Clio Goldsmith and Bruno Gaburro's "Il peccato di Lola" also known as "Lola's Secret" (1985), insist on her curves and, in particular, on her generous bosom that Fellini liked to call "a paddy bear". In 1986, she appeared in a series of photoshoots in glamorous magazines. In 1988 she participated in Fantastico 9, an Italian television variety show aired on Saturday prime time on the Rai network. She also posed nude for the erotic magazines Playboy, Playmen and Le Ore.