Gina Lollobrigida
Actor
Biography
Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida OMRI (4 July 1927 – 16 January 2023) was an Italian actress, model, photojournalist, and sculptor. She was one of the highest-profile European actresses of the 1950s and 1960s, a period in which she was an international sex symbol. Dubbed "the most beautiful woman in the world", at the time of her death she was among the last surviving high-profile international actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
As her film career slowed, Lollobrigida established a second career as a photojournalist. In the 1970s she achieved a scoop by gaining access to Fidel Castro for an exclusive interview.
Lollobrigida continued as an active supporter of Italian and Italian-American causes, particularly the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF). In 2008 she received the NIAF Lifetime Achievement Award at the Foundation's Anniversary Gala. In 2013, she sold her jewellery collection and donated the nearly US$5 million from the sale to benefit stem-cell therapy research. She won the Henrietta Award at the 18th Golden Globe Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gina Lollobrigida, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films
as Gina Lollobrigida 2011
Bread, Love and Dreams
as La Bersagliera 1953
Beat the Devil
as Maria Dannreuther 1953
Fan-Fan the Tulip
as Adeline 1952
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Esmeralda 1956
Solomon and Sheba
as Sheba 1959
Trapeze
as Lola 1956
Come September
as Lisa Helena Fellini 1961
Never So Few
as Carla Vesari 1959
One Hundred and One Nights
as Professor Bébel's Medium Wife 1995
Frisky
as Bersagliera 1954
Woman of Straw
as Maria Marcello 1964
Death Laid an Egg
as Anna 1968
Beauties of the Night
as Leila 1952
Beautiful But Dangerous
as Lina Cavalieri 1955
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
as Carla Campbell 1968