Sylva Koscina was born on August 22, 1933 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia. She was an actress, known for Hercules (1958), Hercules Unchained (1959) and Man of Iron (1956). She was married to Raimondo Castelli. She died on December 26, 1994 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
[on L'assoluto naturale (1969)] t was definitely the strangest and most sexy picture I've done up to now. I was very nervous at the beginning because I'm really a very shy person. Also, it was something new for me to shoot these kind of scenes.
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Nudity can be nice, beautiful, but should not be vulgar. It depends on which way you are treating something. I'm not for pornography. I'm for nudity, but for the classic, beautiful, clean nude.
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[on her infamous love scene in L'assoluto naturale (1969)] Of course, if it had not been for the director, I wouldn't have done this film.
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Fact
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Her family fled Yugoslavia after World War II and resettled in Italy. Sylva won several beauty contests and worked as a fashion model. She was offered a screen test by Eduardo De Filippo, but failed. Nonetheless, she persevered and went to Rome seeking work as an actress, eventually ending up with several bit parts. These led to more substantial leading roles in light comedies, costume dramas and sword-and-sandal epics like Le fatiche di Ercole (1958). Ultimately her ornamental qualities rather exceeded her abilities as an actress.
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Posed nude for Playboy in 1975, when she was 42.
3
Lived with Raimondo Castelli since 1960, but did not marry because of the opposition of Italian law and of his wife, Marinella, refusing divorce to couples married by the Catholic rite. They did marry in Mexico in 1967, but that was not recognized in Italy.
4
Since the early 1960s has invested most of her considerable salary from film work in a luxurious villa--in the well-to-do district of Marino, Rome--complete with 16th-century furniture and paintings. That lasted until her spending was overtaken by dwindling income and, in 1976, she had to face a tax evasion inquest, and was forced to sell her house..
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Has been Miss Da Tapa (1952)
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Was a physics student at Naples University before she went into movies.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
C'è Kim Novak al telefono
1994
Enrico's Mother
Ricky & Barabba
1992
Cristina Bonelli
L'odissea
1991
TV Movie
Minerva
Una grande storia d'amore
1988
TV Movie
Eugenia Dossena
Rimini Rimini
1987
Countess Rita-Engeneer Pedercini's Sister
Die Nacht der vier Monde
1984
special guest
Cenerentola '80
1984
Principessa Mafalda Gherardeschi
...e la vita continua
1984
TV Mini-Series
Evelina
Mani di fata
1983
Contessa Irene
Questo e quello
1983
Dora (segment "Quello... col basco rosso")
Asso
1981
Enrichetta Morgan
Les séducteurs
1980
Zaira (segment "Armando's Notebook")
Some Like It Cool
1977
The Prefect's Wife
Clara and Nora
1975
Dracula in the Provinces
1975
Mariù - wife of Costante
The House of Exorcism
1975
Sophia Lehar
Delitto d'autore
1974
Milena Gottardi
Las correrías del Vizconde Arnau
1974
Zoraida
The Student Connection
1974
Sonya Dorigny
Lisa and the Devil
1973
Sophia Lehar (as Silva Koscina)
Il tuo piacere è il mio
1973
La moglie del tintore
Uccidere in silenzio
1972
Madre di Valeria
The Italian Connection
1972
Lucia
Beati i ricchi
1972
Contessa Tanzini
Sette scialli di seta gialla
1972
Françoise Ballais
Rivelazioni di un maniaco sessuale al capo della squadra mobile
1972
Barbara Capuana
Boccaccio
1972
Fiametta
Perché non ci lasciate in pace?
1971
No desearás la mujer del vecino
1971
Susana (as Silvia Koscina)
African Story
1971
Barbara Hayland (as Silva Koscina)
Homo Eroticus
1971
Carla
Les jambes en l'air
1971
Favouille Grandblaise
Historia de una traición
1971
Lola
Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
1971
La moglie del presentatore
Trittico
1971
Sylvia, the Assistant
Ninì Tirabusciò, la donna che inventò la mossa
1970
Baroness di Valdarno
Hornets' Nest
1970
Bianca
La modification
1970
Cécile
Vertige pour un tueur
1970
Sylvie
La colomba non deve volare
1970
Bitka na Neretvi
1969
Danica
L'assoluto naturale
1969
She
Marquis de Sade's Justine
1969
Marquise de Bressac
Kampf um Rom II - Der Verrat
1969
Theodora
I protagonisti
1968
Nancy
The Last Roman
1968
Empress Theodora
A Lovely Way to Die
1968
Rena Westabrook
The Secret War of Harry Frigg
1968
Countess Francesca De Montefiore
Johnny Banco
1967
Laureen Moore
Deadlier Than the Male
1967
Penelope
Three Bites of the Apple
1967
Carla Moretti
Les fables de La Fontaine
1966
TV Series
Mia
A Ace and Four Queens
1966
Dolores Arrabal
Monnaie de singe
1966
Lucile
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
1966
The 'Star'
Baraka sur X 13
1966
Mania
The Little Nuns
1965
Elena
Made in Italy
1965
Diana (segment "3 'La Donna', episode 3")
I soldi
1965
Leda
Thrilling
1965
Paola (segment "L'autostrada del sole")
Juliet of the Spirits
1965
Sylva
Il morbidone
1965
Irene
That Man in Istanbul
1965
Kelly
The Double Bed
1965
Giulietta / Peggy
The Dictator's Guns
1965
Rae Osborne
Una storia di notte
1964
Maddalena
Le grain de sable
1964
Alexandra Fonseca
Love and Marriage
1964
segment "Sabato 18 luglio"
Cyrano et d'Artagnan
1964
Ninon de l'Eclos
Cadavere per signora
1964
Laura Guglielmetti
Let's Talk About Women
1964
Reluctant Girl
Love in Four Dimensions
1964
Irma, la moglie (segment "Amore e vita")
Agent 8 3/4
1964
Vlasta Simoneva
Judex
1963
Daisy
L'appartement des filles
1963
Eléna
Il fornaretto di Venezia
1963
Clemenza, Barbo's Wife
The Shortest Day
1963
La salamandre d'or
1962
uncredited
Three Fables of Love
1962
Mia (segment "Le lièvre et le tortue")
Swordsman of Siena
1962
Orietta Arconti
Copacabana Palace
1962
Ines
Le masque de fer
1962
Marion
Le massaggiatrici
1962
Marisa
Jessica
1962
Nunzia Tuffi
I giacobini
1962
TV Mini-Series
Destination Fury
1961
Blood Feud
1961
Love, the Italian Way
1960
Luciana
Ravissante
1960
Evelyne Cotteret
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
1960
Carolina
Mariti in pericolo
1960
Berta
Le pillole di Ercole
1960
Silvia, la moglie de Pasqui
Trapped by Fear
1960
Arabelle
I piaceri dello scapolo
1960
Eby
L'assedio di Siracusa
1960
Clio
Genitori in blue-jeans
1960
Elena
Le sorprese dell'amore
1959
Marianna
La cambiale
1959
Odette Mercury
Tempi duri per i vampiri
1959
Carla
Le confident de ces dames
1959
Maria Bonifati
Poveri milionari
1959
Alice
Ercole e la regina di Lidia
1959
Iole, bride of Ercole
Herod the Great
1959
unconfirmed
La nipote Sabella
1958
Lucia
Love on the Riviera
1958
Renata Morandi
Totò nella luna
1958
Lidia
Mogli pericolose
1958
Tosca (as Silva Koscina)
Totò a Parigi
1958
Juliette Marchand
La Gerusalemme liberata
1958
Clorinda
Quando gli angeli piangono
1958
Giovani mariti
1958
Mara Rossi Bandelli
Ladro lui, ladra lei
1958
Cesira De Angelis
Le fatiche di Ercole
1958
Iole, Daugher of Pelias
Non sono più Guaglione
1958
Carolina
La nonna Sabella
1957
Lucia
Le naïf aux 40 enfants
1957
Gina Lantois
Femmine tre volte
1957
Sonia
Guendalina
1957
Francesca Redalli, madre di Guendalina
I fidanzati della morte
1957
Lucia
Michael Strogoff
1956
Sangarre (as Silvia Koscina)
Il ferroviere
1956
Giulia Marcocci (as Silva)
Siamo uomini o caporali
1955
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Ercole e la regina di Lidia
1959
performer: "Evening Star"
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Stelle emigranti
1982
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Apropos Film
1977
TV Series documentary
Herself
Rom aktuell
1970
TV Series documentary
Herself
Vedo nudo
1969
Herself
Italy's in Season
1967
Short documentary
Herself (filming 'Three Bites of the Apple (1967)')
Il vigile
1960
Herself
Il vedovo
1959
Herself (uncredited)
Festival di Sanremo
1951
TV Series
Herself - Assistant (1972)
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Saucy 70's Volume 2
2010
Video documentary
Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
2000
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Kolossal - i magnifici Macisti
1977
Documentary
Clorinda (as S. Koscina)
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
1975
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1969
Golden Orange
Taormina International Film Festival
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1967
Golden Laurel
Laurel Awards
Female New Face
7th place.
Known for movies
Le fatiche di Ercole (1958) as Iole, Daugher of Pelias
Ercole e la regina di Lidia (1959) as Iole, bride of Ercole
$1.6 Million
