
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

Son of Black Eagle
Adventure • 1968 August

The Winsome Widow
Comedy • 1973 August

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
Comedy, Crime • 1973 November

Samoa, Queen of the Jungle
Adventure, Action • 1968 March

Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
Drama • 1970 September

The Sweet Pussycats
Comedy • 1969 January

The Paramedic
Comedy • 1982 February

A Policewoman in New York
Action, Comedy • 1981 November

Poker in Bed
Comedy • 1974 August

The Lady Medic
Comedy • 1976 January