Sylva Koscina

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Actress

Birth Date: August 22, 1933

Death Date: December 26, 1994

Birth Place: Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Sylvia Koscina was an actress and sex symbol who appeared in a wide array of Italian genre films beginning in the late 1950s. Originally from Yugoslavia, Koscina moved to Italy to be with her sister during World War II. She worked as a model and attended the University of Naples to study physics, but it is unsurprising that this natural beauty would become part of Italy's ascendant film industry. In 1958, she was second-billed in the seminal sword-and-sandals epic "Hercules," starring Steve Reeves; the film was an international hit. Koscina worked steadily in a range of comedies, swashbucklers, and romances over the ensuing years.

She made two spy spoofs with British director Ralph Thomas: 1964's "Agent 8 3/4" and 1967's "Deadlier Than the Male," in which she played an assassin. She had a small part in Federico Fellini's 1965 film "Juliet of the Spirits," and in 1968, she was cast opposite Paul Newman in "The Secret War of Harry Frigg." Koscina caused a scandal over what would today be considered tasteful nude photos in a 1967 Italian edition of Playboy and only furthered the scandal by appearing nude in the 1969 film "He and She." Film roles dwindled by the late 1970s, although she did make a notably erotic appearance in Mario Bava's 1974 film, "Lisa and the Devil." In the 1980s, she frequently appeared on Italian variety shows in addition to a long-running theater performance in which she appeared nude. Koscina died of breast cancer in 1994.

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Cinderella 80

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Fürstin Gherardeschi
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2019

Ricky e Barabba

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Cristina Bonelli
Movie
1992

Cenerentola '80

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Principessa Gherardeschi
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1984

Cenerentola '80

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Princess Gherardeschi
Movie
1984

Il cappello sulle ventitré

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1983

Mani di fata

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Countess Irene
Movie
1983

Questo e quello

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Movie
1983

Asso

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Enrichetta Morgan
Movie
1981

Casanova & Co.

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The Prefect's Wife
Movie
1977

The Student Connection

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Sonja
Movie
1975

Il tuo piacere è il mio

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La moglie del tintore
Movie
1973

Lisa and the DevilStream

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Sophia Lehar
Movie
1973
58%

The Italian Connection

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Lucia Canali
Movie
1973

Rivelazioni di un maniaco sessuale al capo della squadra mobile

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Barbara Capuana
Movie
1972

Beati i ricchi

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Contessa Tanzini
Movie
1972

The Manipulator

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Barbara Hayland
Movie
1972

To Kill in Silence

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Madre di Valeria
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1972

No desearás la mujer del vecino

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Susana
Movie
1971

La colomba non deve volare

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1971

No desearás a la mujer del vecino

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Susana
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1971

Ninì Tirabusciò, la donna che inventò la mossa

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La baronessa di Valdarno
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1970

La modification

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Cécile
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1970

彼女と彼

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1970

Vertige de l'amour

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Sylvie Dussart
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1970

Vertige pour un tueur

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1970

Hornet's Nest

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Bianca
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1970

L'Assaut des jeunes loups

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1970

Deadly Sanctuary

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Marquise de Bressac
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1970

Kampf um Rom II: Der Verrat

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Theodora
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1969

The Battle of Neretva

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Danica
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1969

The Secret War of Harry Frigg

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Countess Francesca De Montefiore
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1968

I protagonisti

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Nancy
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1968

The Last Roman

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Empress Theodora
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1968

A Lovely Way to Die

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Rena Westabrook
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1968

Baraka X-77

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Mania
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1968

Three Bites of the Apple

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Carla Moretti
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1967

Made in Italy

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Diana
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1967

Johnny Banco

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Laureen Moore
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1967

Deadlier Than the Male

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Penelope
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1967

El Dinero

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1966

Le Lit à deux places

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1966

Agente X 77: Ordine di Uccidere

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1966

Parlons femmes

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1966

Four Queens for an Ace

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Dolores Arrabal
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1966

À l'italienne

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1966

I sette falsari

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Lucile
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1965

Il morbidone

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Irene
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1965

Me, Me, Me... And the Others

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The "Star"
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1965

That Man in Istanbul

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Kenny
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1965

The Little Nuns

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Elena
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1965

L'Arme à gauche

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Rae Osborne
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1965

Juliette des Esprits

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1965

Juliet of the SpiritsStream

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Sylva
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1965
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The Dictator's Guns

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1965

Cadavere per signora

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1964

Amore in 4 dimensioni

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Irma
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1964

Let's Talk About Women

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Reluctant Girl
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1964

Love and Marriage

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1964

Four Fables of Love

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Mia
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1964

L'appartement des filles

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Elena
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1963

Agent 8 3/4

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Vlasta Simoneva
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1963

Las Cuatro Verdades

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Mia
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1963

Cyrano y D'Artagnan

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1963

The Scapegoat

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Clemenza
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1963

Judex

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Daisy
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1963

Le Masque de fer

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Marion
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1962

Le massaggiatrici

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Marisa
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1962

Jessica

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Nunzia Tuffi
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1962

Copacabana Palace

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Ines
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1962

The Swordsman of Siena

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Orietta Arconti
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1962

The Man in the Iron Mask

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Marion
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1962

Mani in alto

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1961

En pleine bagarre

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1961

I piaceri dello scapolo

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1960

Siege of Syracuse

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Clio
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1960

Les distractions

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Arabelle
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1960

Mariti in pericolo

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Silvana
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1960

La Ravissante

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1960

Love, the Italian Way

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Luciana
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1960

Trapped by Fear

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Arabelle
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1960

Poveri milionari

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Alice
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1959

La cambiale

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1959

Le sorprese dell'amore

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Marianna
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1959

Hercules Unchained

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Iole
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1959

Padres en Blue Jeans

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1959

HerculesStream

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Iole
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1959
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Uncle Was a Vampire

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Carla
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1959

Syracuse la fin d'un empire

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1959

La Letra de Cambio

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1959

Totò nella luna

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Lidia
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1958

Totò a Parigi

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1958

Ladro lui, ladra lei

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Cesira
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1958

La nipote Sabella

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Lucia
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1958

Non sono più guaglione

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Carolina
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1958

Quando gli angeli piangono

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Marta
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1958

Le confident de ces dames

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1958

Cuentos de Verano

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1958

Love on the Riviera

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1958

Mogli pericolose

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Tosca
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1958

Guendalina

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1957

La Gerusalemme liberata

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1957

I fidanzati della morte

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Lucia
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1957

La nonna Sabella

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Lucia
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1957

Il ferroviere

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Giulia Marcocci
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1956

The Railroad Man

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Giulia Marcocci
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1956

Michel Strogoff

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Sangarre
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1956

Siamo uomini o caporali?

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1955