
Edwige Fenech
- Date of Birth: 1948-12-24
- Place of Birth: Annaba, Algeria
Biography
Fenech was born in Bône (now Annaba), in French Algeria to a Maltese father and Sicilian mother. From the late 1960s to early 1980s, Fenech starred in many types of European movies. She is best known... Fenech was born in Bône (now Annaba), in French Algeria to a Maltese father and Sicilian mother. From the late 1960s to early 1980s, Fenech starred in many types of European movies. She is best known for her erotic comedies, and began to work in that field in the late 1960s with Austrian director Franz Antel. Fenech also achieved fame with giallo and sex films such as Five Dolls for an August Moon, Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key and Sex with a Smile, many of which were directed by Sergio Martino. In the 1980s, she became a television personality, typically appearing with Barbara Bouchet on a chat show on Italian television. In the mid-1990s, she was engaged to the well-known Italian industrialist Luca di Montezemolo. After many years of work in movie production (she produced, among others, The Merchant of Venice, 2004, with Al Pacino), Fenech accepted Quentin Tarantino's offer to star in another movie, Hostel: Part II (2007), directed by Eli Roth. A British general named Ed Fenech (played by Mike Myers) is a character in Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edwige Fenech, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Madame Bovary
Drama • 1969 October

School Teacher in the House
Comedy • 1978 November

Don't Play with Tigers
Comedy • 1982 January

Cream Horn
Comedy • 1981 September

Vacanze in America
Comedy • 1984 December

Evil Thoughts
Comedy • 1976 October

The School Teacher
Comedy • 1975 July

When Women Were Called Virgins
Comedy • 1972 August

The Wife on Vacation... The Lover in Town
Comedy • 1980 August

Strip Nude for Your Killer
Horror, Thriller • 1975 August