Francesca Romana Coluzzi 1943 - 2009

Francesca Romana Coluzzi (20 might 1943 – fifteen July 2009) was associate degree Italian thespian. A revered dramatic thespian on stage, she is maybe best notable for her roles within the commedia attractive all'italiana. Born in Albanian capital, Balkan country of Italian folks, Coluzzi shortly moved in European country along with her family to Perugia. As a young adult, throughout a student twist recreation contest, Federico Fellini noticed her and offered her a job in 8½. Coluzzi declined the supply to continue her studies, however but the encounter with Fellini marked her life, and he or she eventually set to go away the university to pursue a career within the cinema.

She started her career as a body double, 1st of Mylène Demongeot in Fantomas '70 and later of Marisa Mell in Diabolik. In 1965, at 22, Coluzzi created her acting debut with the Lucio Fulci's comedy film 002 Operazione Luna.Her flight role came in 1969, with the role of Asmera, the Adriano Celentano's lover in Pietro Germi's Serafino. One year later she compete Tarsilla Tettamanzi in Alberto Lattuada's Venga a prendere il caffè prosecuting attorney noi, and for this role she won a Nastro d'Argento for best supporting thespian and a Globo d'oro within the same class. within the following years Coluzzi was primarily active in comedy films, particularly within the commedia attractive all'italiana genre, usually enjoying roles of intolerable and jelous wives. In 1985 she supported in Rome a theater workshop for kids, ’Associazione Culturale vegetable soup d’'Arte. She died at sixty six of carcinoma.
Filmography:

1999	La Via Degli Angeli
1985	Massimamente Folle
1975	Il Padrone e l 'Operaio
1975	L'Insegnante
1973	Themroc
1973	The Con Men
1972	Le Sex Shop
1972	La Mala Ordina
1970	Mio Mao

Edwige Fenech - 1948

Stunningly gorgeous and charismatic brunette actress Edwige Fenech was born as Edwige Sfenek on December 24, 1948 in Bone, Constantine, France to a Maltese father and Italian mother. Edwige 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 1967 comedy “All Mad About Him.” Fenech appeared in such saucy West German sex farces as “The Blonde and the Black Pussycat” and “Sexy Susan Sins Again” in the late 60’s. With her lustrous long black hair, lovely, 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. Fenech achieved her greatest enduring cult cinema popularity by starring in several superior Italian giallos for director Sergio Martino: “Next!,” “Demons of the Dead,” and “Your Vice Is a Closed Room and Only I Have the Key.” (She was the onetime girlfriend of Martino’s producer brother Luciano.) Edwige also acted for Martino in a handful of racy Italian sex comedies and the Italian mini-series “Delitti Privati.”

Other noted Italian film directors Fenech has acted in movies for are Mario Bava (“Five Dolls for an August Moon”), Guliano Carnimeo (“The Case of the Bloody Iris”), Andrea Bianchi (“Strip Nude for Your Killer”), Umberto Lenzi (“The Great Battle”), Steno (“Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot”), Dino Risi (“I’m Photogenic”), and Ruggero Deodato (“Phantom of Death”). She demonstrated her exceptional range and skill as an actress with enjoyably uninhibited performances in such amusingly bawdy Italian comedic romps as “The Naughty Nun,” “Ubalda, All Naked and Warm,” and “Sexy Schoolteacher.” Edwige became a television personality in the 80’s 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 (she co-produced the 2004 movie “The Merchant of Venice” as well as various Italian TV mini-series and made-for-TV features). In the mid 90’s Edwige was engaged to famous Italian industrialist Luca di Montezemolo. More recently Edwige Fenech made a welcome return to acting with a funny small part as an alluring art class professor in Eli Roth’s “Hostel: Part II.”

Sylva Koscina 1933 - 1994

She was born "Sylva Koskinou"  to a Greek father and a Polish mother. She could also be best-remembered for her role as Iole, the bride of Hercules (Steve Reeves) in Hercules (1958) and Hercules untied (1960). She conjointly contend Paul Newman's romantic interest within the Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968).
During the Second warfare once she was a young person, she affected to European nation to measure together with her sister, United Nations agency had married associate Italian subject.
Koscina had an in depth film career there. She conjointly marked within the 1967 comedy caper 3 Bites of the Apple with David McCallum, and Deadlier Than the Male (1967), within which she and Elke Sommer delineate subtle skilled killers dueling with Bulldog Drummond. She conjointly contend Danica within the Yugoslavian moving-picture show The Battle of Neretva, in 1969. She contend a German doctor, Bianca, in Hornets' Nest with Rock Hudson.

Koscina had studied physics at the University of Napoli, was Miss Di Tappa at the Tour of European nation race in 1954, in addition as being a supporter. She created a momentaneous look within the a part of associate aspiring role player in Siamo uomini o caporali? [Are we tend to men or corporals?] (1955) before creating a flying catch at her nice opportunity: she delineate Giulia, girl of the train engineer Andrea, in Pietro Germi's Il ferroviere [The Railroad Man] (1956). Koscina straightaway confirmed her talent in Guendalina (1957), wherever she had no problem taking part in the a part of a young mother.
A lead player in common comedies, like Nonna Sabella [Grandmother Sabella] (1957), Ladro lui, ladra lei [He a felon, she a thief] (1958), and Poveri millionari [Poor millionaires] (1958), Koscina alternated smartly between roles as vamp and ingenue. She drawn ladies in search of social upward quality, the image of associate European nation that had left its worst issues behind.
Koscina was suited to classy comedies like Mogli pericolose [Dangerous wives] (1958), wherever she created a right away sentimental challenge to poor Giorgia outlaw. however she conjointly appeared comfy draped in a very peplum: she created a fabulous fiancée for Hercules in lupus fatiche di Ercole [Hercules] (1958), a model of this sort of film. A true-life example of her quality in European nation occurred once, so as to win her over, a officer let her go while not supplying a traffic price ticket. timber was later a guest on a programme, at which period she thanked the law officer on the air, so obtaining him into countless hassle with the local department. The incident and its aftermath impressed the moving-picture show Il vigile [The policeman] (1960), wherever she contend herself.

In the half of the sixties, Koscina married her lover, Raimondo Castelli, atiny low producer connected with Roman deity Films. She managed to stay well afloat with roles in Damiano Damiani's Il sicario [The employed killer] (1961). In La lepre e la tartaruga [The turtle and therefore the Hare], associate episode in lupus quattro verita [The 3 Fables of Love] (1963), the director Blasetti made a duel between Koscina and Monica Vitti. In 1965, Koscina appeared in Giulietta degli spiriti. She was conjointly a tv temperament, as she was usually the special guest on selection shows.
From the first Sixties, she invested with most of her sizable salaries as a star in a very luxurious villa, within the well-fixed district of Marini, Rome, complete with 16th-century article of furniture and creative paintings. That lasted till her defrayal overcame her dwindling financial gain, and he or she had to face a evasion inquiry, once she was forced to sell her house in 1976. Living with Raimondo Castelli since 1960, they didn't marry because of then Italian law and since his partner Marinella refused him associate annulment. Castelli and Koscina married in Mexico in 1967, however that wedding wasn't recognized in European nation.
After passing thirty, she partnered with actors like church building politician in a very pretty thanks to Die (1968) and Newman within the Secret War of Harry Frigg (1967), however with none luck. Her fame being alittle sullied, it had been given a lift within the half of the sixties once she was photographed unclothed within the Italian edition of Corinthian magazine. Mauro Bolognini's L'assoluto naturale (1969) was free complete with a "chaste" full nude shot.

Linda Zilliacus - 1977

Linda Zilliacus was born on April twenty five, 1977 in Finnish capital, European country as Linda Elvira Gyllenberg. She is associate thespian, celebrated for Evil (2003), Om Sara (2005) and Isabella (2006). She has been married to Tobias Zilliacus since 2002.

Linda Filmography:

• 2011 - Maria Wern - Black Butterfly (TV series) (role: Felicia)
• 2011 - Anno 1790 (TV series) (role: Magdalena)
• 2007 - August (TV series) (role: Siri von Essen)
• 2007 - Labyrinth (TV series) (role: Sofi Ramhäll)
• 2006 - Isabella (TV series) (role: Charlotta)
• 2005 - About Sara (Role: Sara)
• 2003 - Evil (role: Marja)
• 2003 - Operation Stella Polaris (TV series) (role: Christina)
• 2003 - Fling (TV series) (role: Victoria)
• 2002 - Kuutamolla (English title: Lovers and leaver) (role: Ilona)
• 2000 - Hovimäki (TV series) (Role: Hanna)
• 2000 - Falk Swärd furniture (TV series) (role: Jenny)
• 1999 - History is made ​​at night (role: Maija)
• 1999 - Kirjava silta (TV series) (role: Inka)
• 1998 - Ihon aika (role: Vieno)
• 1998 - There are several ways to swim (TV series) (role: Barbie)
• 1988 - The old man in the cabinet (TV series) (role: Sonja) 

Oksana Akinshina - 1987

Oksana Aleksandrovna Akinshina ( born nineteen Apr 1987), conjointly referred to as Oksana Akinsjina, could be a Russian histrion. She is best familiar for her roles in films Sisters, Lilya 4-ever, The Bourne ascendence, and Hipsters.Akinshina was born in Saint Petersburg (now Saint Petersburg; , currently Russia), wherever she presently lives. Oksana's father was a automotive mechanic, Oksana's mother was Associate in Nursing bourgeois. She encompasses a younger sister. At the time she landed the role in Lilya 4-ever, Akishnina solely spoke Russian, and communicated with director Lukas Moodysson with the assistance of a translator.
Till 15-years-old Akinshina dated actor Aleksey Chadov. From 2007 to 2010, Akinshina was married to man of affairs Dmitry Litvinov and that they have a standard son Philipp (born two Gregorian calendar month 2009). On fifteen January 2013 Akinshina gave birth to her second son Konstantin from the filmmaker Archil Gelovani.Starting functioning at age twelve, Akinshina was discovered by Sergei Bodrov, Jr., and he or she created her screen début within the Russian crime film Sisters (2001), Bodrov's own directorial début.Her second film, Lilya 4-Ever (2001), earned  her a 2002 European Film Award nomination for Best histrion. She lost, however, to the eight actresses of the film eight girls (2002), directed by François Ozon. For her role in Lilya 4-Ever, she conjointly received the award for Best histrion in Leading Role from the Guldbagge Awards, Sweden's national film awards.
Since then Akinshina has acted within the films het up Zuiden, directed by Martin Koolhoven, and therefore the Bourne ascendence (2004), directed by Paul Greengrass.

Valeria Golino - 1965

                 
Wholesomely sexy Italian actress Valeria Golino was a teen model when she appeared in her first film, Lina Wertmuller's Joke of Destiny (1984). Valeria Golino (born 22 October 1965) is an Italian actress and director.Conversant (if not proficient) in several languages, Golino thrived in international films bearing such provocative titles as Little Fires (1985), Last Summer in Tangiers (1987) and Love Story (1987). One of her first important American roles was as Tom Cruise's voice-of-conscience girlfriend in the Oscar-winning Rain Man (1988), after which she portrayed the trapeze artist who falls in love with Pee-Wee Herman in Big Top Pee-Wee (1988). Blessed with a subtle, sparkle-eyed sense of humor, Golino has been seen to good advantage in the adventure-film spoofs Hot Shots! (1991) and Hot Shots Part Deux (1992); her deadly serious delivery of the most ridiculous of lines ("What do you do with an elephant with three balls?") has been attributed by some to expert comic timing, and by others to Golino's alleged habit of learning her English dialogue by rote.Golino was born in Naples, Italy, to an Italian father who was a Germanist and scholar and a Greek mother, Lalla, who was a painter; one of her grandmothers was Egyptian-French.

She grew up in an "artistic household" and, after her parents split, was raised between Athens and Sorrento (Naples). Golino is the niece of L'Espresso journalist Enzo Golino; her brother is a musician. As a child her mother would frequently take her to the cinema and it is thanks to her that she quickly became interested in films. But in spite of this, she never thought about pursuing a film career until she made her first movie: in fact she wanted to be a cardiologist. She was diagnosed with scoliosis at 11 and had to have a steel rod implanted in her back for five years. At 14 she started to work as a model in Athens, Milan (for Vogue magazine), London and Los Angeles: she shot commercials for beers, perfumes and makeups and modeled bathing suits and jeans. An absent-minded student, she dropped out of high school after her first film.

Lindy Benson - 1953

Lindy Benson was born in 1953 in Muswell Hill, London, England. She is an actress, known for Adventures of a Plumber's Mate (1978), To the Devil a Daughter (1976) and Spectre (1977).
You will notice that Lindy Benson don't have a lot of films so her Filmography:

1.     The World Is Full of Married Men
2.     Can I Come Too?
3.     Confessions From the David Galaxy Affair
4.     Spectre (TV Movie)
5.     Adventures of a Plumber's Mate
6.     To the Devil, a Daughter
7.     I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight
8.     Intimate Games

Has Worked With:

•     Carroll Baker
•        The World Is Full of Married Men
•     Christopher Neil
•         Adventures of a Plumber's Mate
•     Honor Blackman
•         To the Devil, a Daughter
•     Anna Bergman
•         Intimate Games