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Edwige Fenech was born Edwige Sfenek on December 24, 1948, in Bone, Constantine, France, to a Maltese father and an Italian mother. She began her show-business career as a participant in beauty contests (she won the title of "Miss Mannequin de la Cote d'Azur" at age 16 and even won a Miss France beauty contest) and worked as a photo model prior to making her film debut in the comedy Toutes folles de lui (1967). She appeared in such saucy West German sex farces as Alle Kätzchen naschen gern (1969) and Sexy Susan Sins Again (1968).
With her lustrous and long black hair, lovely and sensuous face, full shapely figure and smoldering screen presence, Edwige soon became a very popular and much sought-after actress in a diverse array of European productions made in Italy, France, Spain and West Germany. She achieved her greatest enduring cult cinema popularity by starring in several superior Italian giallos for director Sergio Martino: The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971), They're Coming to Get You! (1972) and Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972) (she was the onetime girlfriend of Martino's producer brother, Luciano Martino).
Edwige also acted for Martino in a handful of racy Italian sex comedies and the Italian mini-series Delitti privati (1993). Other noted Italian film directors Fenech has worked for are Mario Bava (Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970)), Giuliano Carnimeo (The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972)), Andrea Bianchi (Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975)), Umberto Lenzi (The Biggest Battle (1978)), Steno (Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot (1979)), Dino Risi (Sono fotogenico (1980)) and Ruggero Deodato (Phantom of Death (1987)).
She demonstrated her exceptional range and skill as an actress with enjoyably uninhibited performances in such amusingly bawdy Italian comedic romps as Quel gran pezzo della Ubalda tutta nuda e tutta calda (1972) and The School Teacher (1975). Edwige became a television personality in the 1980s and made frequent appearances on an Italian chat show along with fellow giallo goddess Barbara Bouchet. Moreover, Fenech launched her own fashion line and founded her own film production company, Immagine e Cinema S.r.l., with her son Edwin Fenech (she co-produced the 2004 film The Merchant of Venice (2004) as well as various Italian TV mini-series and made-for-TV features).
In the mid-1990s Edwige was engaged to famous Italian industrialist Luca Cordero di Montezemolo. She made a welcome return to acting with a small but funny part as an alluring art class professor in Eli Roth's Hostel: Part II (2007).- Actress
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Saralisa Volm was born on 24 June 1985 in Hechingen, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany. She is an actress and producer, known for The Silent Forest (2022), Bedbugs (2017) and Metamorphosis (2015).- Laura Antonelli was born on 28 November 1941 in Pola, Istria, Italy [now Pula, Istria, Croatia]. She was an actress, known for Passion of Love (1981), Malicious (1973) and The Innocent (1976). She was married to Enrico Piacentini. She died on 22 June 2015 in Ladispoli, Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Katarina Vasilissa was born on 30 August 1970 in Wloclawek, Poland. She is an actress, known for The Voyeur (1994).
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Anna Ammirati is an Italian actress. After finishing artistic high school in Campania, Ammirati moved to Rome to study psychology. In the meantime, she also had minor acting roles starting with the miniseries "Positano" and in 1997, she applied at a casting session at Cinecittà organised by director Tinto Brass to find the lead actress for "Monella". Her greatest success came with this early role but like many other Brass finds, her later career was of much lower profile. Ammirati lives in London but she has been active on the Italian acting scene with cinematic films as well as TV series such as "Io e mio figlio - Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi".- Actress
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Nela Lucic was born in Bosnia-Herzegowina to a Catholic family. At the age of 15 her family moved to Italy where she graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures from "La Sapienza" University in Rome. Her passion for acting and drama led her to study at "Conservatory of Theatre" (formerly "La Scaletta") under direction of G.B.Diotajuti, who shaped her passion for acting into professional skill. Her initial step toward the dream of the big screen came with her supporting role in the film by Tinto Brass Monamour (2005), followed by a series of small parts in films like: Animanera (2008) by Raffaele Verzillo, 'Nelle tue mani' (2007 by Peter Del Monte, 'Il papà di Giovanna' (2008) and 'Gli amici del bar Margherita' (2009) by Pupi Avati. She also appeared in several Italian TV series such as Good and Evil (2009) (6 nominations at the Monte Carlo Television Festival 2009) directed by Giorgio Serafini and the second edition of "Butta la luna" (2006). Nela worked as well with upcoming young directors such as award winner Francesco Felli (Ogni Giorno) who directed her in the lead role in his short film 'Fuorigioco'. Under direction of prize-winner Salvatore Allocca she played in his document film 'The Charmer of Snakes'. From 2009 (when this biography was first written) to nowadays Nela worked n several independent feature films, a TV series "Caso di coscienza 5" and various programs for different satellite TV channels. She led the public through the beauties of her native country Bosnia and Herzegowina as well as her former life in it in a very successful documentary 'Radici' (Roots) repeatedly broadcasted on Italian Rai TV.