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Edwige Fenech

Acting Born Dec 24, 1948 Annaba, Algeria 24 credits

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 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.

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Known for

Sanremo Music Festival

as Self - Host
Film

Hostel: Part II

as Art Class Professor
Film

An Ideal Adventure

as Patrizia
Film

Hot Potato

as Maria
Film

The Wife on Vacation... The Lover in Town

as Giulia

Full filmography

  • Sanremo Music Festival (1951) as Self - Host
  • The Soldier with Great Maneuvers (1978) as Doctor Eva Marini
  • Domenica In (1976) as Self
  • Domenica In (1976)
  • Hostel: Part II (2007) as Art Class Professor
  • My Sister in Law (1976) as Judge Viola Orlando / Rosa Orlando
  • An Ideal Adventure (1982) as Patrizia
  • Innocence and Desire (1974) as Carmela Paternò
  • Ace (1981) as Silvia
  • The Seducers (1969) as Ulla
  • Naughty Nun (1972) as Antonia
  • The School Teacher (1975) as Giovanna Pagaus
  • The Nurse on a Military Tour (1977) as Eva Marini
  • Hot Potato (1979) as Maria
  • Buona la prima! (2007) as Ospite
  • The Family Vice (1975) as Suzie
  • The Lady Medic (1976) as Doctor Elena Dogliozzi
  • The Paramedic (1982) as Nina Miglio
  • Private Crimes (1993) as Nicole Venturi
  • Giovannona Long-Thigh (1973) as Giovannona Coscialunga in arte Cocò
  • Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970) as Marie Chaney
  • The Wife on Vacation... The Lover in Town (1980) as Giulia
  • School Teacher in the House (1978) as Luisa De Dominicis
  • The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (1971) as Julie Wardh