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Name: Edwige Fenech
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Date of Birth:
December 24, 1948
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Place of Birth:
Bône, Constantine, France [now Annaba, Algeria]
Mini-bio:
Edwige Fenech (born December 24, 1948 as Edwige Sfenek in Bône, (now Annaba) in French Algeria is a French-born Italian actress and film producer.
She was born to a Maltese father and Sicil...( read more)ian mother. She started to work thanks to her great sex-appeal.
In the 1970s and 1980s she was an Italian movie star, starring in a large number of erotic comedies, Polizieschi thrillers and giallo films such as Five Dolls for an August Moon at the Internet Movie Database, "Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key", and "The STrange Vice Of Mrs. Wardh" most of which were directed by Sergio Martino.
She became a television personality in the 1980s, typically appearing with Barbara Bouchet on a chat show on Italian television.
In the mid-90s, she was engaged to famous 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 2 (2007), directed by Eli Roth.