Gina Lollobrigida Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Luigina "Gina" Lollobrigida is an Italian actress, photojournalist and sculptor. She was one of the most popular European actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s, when she was also considered an iconic sex symbol. She received numerous awards and nominations for her performan...
Giuliana Lollobrigida, Maria Lollobrigida, Fernanda Lollobrigida
Nicknames
Luigina Lollobrigida , Miss Gina Lollobrigida , Gina Lollobridgida , Djina Lolobridjida , La Lollo , The Mona Lisa of the Twentieth Century
Awards
Legion of Honour, David di Donatello for Best Actress
Nominations
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (1968), for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film (1984)
Movies
“Trapeze” (1956), “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1956), “Solomon and Sheba” (1959), “Never So Few” (1959), “Come September” (1961), “Strange Bedfellows” (1965), “Hotel Paradiso” (1966), “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell” (1968), “XXL” (1997)
TV Shows
"Portrait of Gina" (1958), "The Adventures of Pinocchio" (1972), "Falcon Crest" (1984), "The Love Boat" (1986)
Star Sign
Cancer
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Trademark
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Seductive deep voice
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Voluptuous figure
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Large brown eyes
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Natural brunette hair
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Quote
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I have experience seducing nephews.
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A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.
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I do what I like now. I just don't have time for it all.
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I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.
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There is only one trouble with having played the most famous courtesan of all times and that is, after Sheba, all other roles will certainly seem tame and anticlimactic.
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My cinema -- the '50s, '60s -- is different from the cinema today so I thought that it would not be bad to show that kind of cinema where we could dream.
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Popularity has a bright side, it unlocks many doors. But the truth is that I don't like it very much because it changes the private life into a very small thing.
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Fact
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Retired from acting in 1997 after 50 years in the motion picture industry.
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In October 2006, at age 79, she announced to Spain's ¡Hola! magazine her engagement to a 45-year-old Spanish businessman, Javier Rigau y Rafols. They had met at a party in Monte Carlo in 1984 and had since become companions. The engagement was called off on 6 December 2006, reportedly because of the strain of intense media interest. In January 2013, she started legal action against Javier Rigau y Rafols, claiming that her ex-boyfriend had staged a secret ceremony in which he "married" an imposter pretending to be her at a registry office in Barcelona. She said he intended to lay claim to her estate after her death. Lollobrigida accused Rigau of fraud, saying that he had earlier obtained the legal right to act on her behalf with a power of attorney, and carried out the plot to get extra power.
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Has one grandson: Dimitri Milko.
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Gave birth to her first child at age 30, a son Milko Skofic Jr. on July 28, 1957. Child's father is now ex-husband, Milko Skofic.
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In May 2013, her diamond jewelry sold for more than $4.9 million in Geneva, setting an auction record for pearl earrings, according to Sotheby's. The earrings beat the $1.98 million figure set in 2011 from the sale of ones made by Bulgari for Elizabeth Taylor. Lollobrigida said was selling the jewelry to raise money for stem cell research.
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Was originally considered for one of the leading roles of Lady L (1965).
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Joey "The Lips" Fagan's trumpet in the Roddy Doyle novel "The Commitments" is named after her.
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Was head of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1986.
She was a successful photojournalist and scooped the world's press by obtaining an exclusive interview with Fidel Castro.
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"Lollo", a kind of curly lettuce, was named after her.
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In November 1998, £10,000 worth of her jewels was stolen from a bag. This happened at a hotel reception in Munich, Germany, while she was waiting for a taxi to the airport.