Portrait of Edwige Fenech

Edwige Fenech

Acting

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edwige Fenech, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Born: December 24, 1948

Place of Birth: Annaba, Algeria

Filmography

2025
My Tennis Maestro

as Scintilla

2019
All the Colors of Giallo

as Self - Actress

2007
Hostel: Part II

as Art Class Professor

2007
1993
Private Crimes

as Nicole Venturi

1988
Phantom of Death

as Hélène Martell

1984
Vacanze in America

as signora De Romanis

1982
1982
The Paramedic

as Nina Miglio

1982
Don't Play with Tigers

as Francesca del Prà

1981
A Policewoman in New York

as Gianna Amicucci / Pupa

1981
Cream Horn

as Marianna Tribalzi

1981
Shut Up When You Speak!

as Belle / Béatrix

1981
Ace

as Silvia

1981
The Nosy One

as Susanna

1980
Catherine and I

as Elisabetta

1980
I'm Photogenic

as Cinzia Pancaldi

1980
1979
Hot Potato

as Maria

1979
Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot

as Barbara Wimply

1979
Saturday, Sunday and Friday

as Ing. Tokimoto (episodio "Sabato")

1978
My Loves

as Deborah

1978
1978
School Teacher in the House

as Luisa De Dominicis

1978
School Teacher in College

as Monica Sebastiani

1978
1977
Taxi Girl

as Marcella

1976
My Sister in Law

as Judge Viola Orlando / Rosa Orlando

1976
Evil Thoughts

as Francesca Marani

1976
1976
Confessions of a Lady Cop

as Gianna Amicucci

1976
Sex with a Smile

as Emilia Chiapponi (episodio "La Cavallona")

1976
The Lady Medic

as Doctor Elena Dogliozzi

1975
1975
1975
The School Teacher

as Giovanna Pagaus

1975
Lover Boy

as Marianna Persichetti

1974
1974
Innocence and Desire

as Carmela Paternò

1973
The Winsome Widow

as Caterina Prevosti

1973
Giovannona Long-Thigh

as Giovannona Coscialunga in arte Cocò

1972
The Case of the Bloody Iris

as Jennifer Lansbury

1972
Naughty Nun

as Antonia

1972
1971
Desert of Fire

as Juana / Actress

1970
Satiricosissimo

as Poppea Sabina

1969
Madame Bovary

as Emma Bovary

1969
1969
Heads or Tails

as Manuela

1969
1969
1969
House of Pleasure

as Rosalie Bobinet

1968
1951