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Edwige Fenech Biography and Full Filmography - MovieWise

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Born:
1948-12-24

Birthplace:
Annaba, Algeria

Credits:
87 Total Roles

Edwige Fenech

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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

Full Filmography

Year Title Role
2025 My Tennis Maestro MOVIE Scintilla
2023 Edwige, Queen of Giallo MOVIE self
2023 La quattordicesima domenica del tempo ordinario MOVIE Sandra Rubin
2019 George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring MOVIE Herself
2019 All the Colors of Giallo MOVIE Self - Actress
2010 Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 2 MOVIE (archive footage)
2007 Hostel Part II: The Next Level MOVIE Self
2007 Hostel Part II: A Legacy of Torture MOVIE Self
2007 Hostel: Part II MOVIE Art Class Professor
2007 Buona la prima! TV Ospite

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