Sylva Koscina
Born: 1933-08-22 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia (now Zagreb, Croatia)
Died: 1994-12-26
Known For: Acting
Biography
Sylva Koscina (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsilva ˈkɔʃʃina]; born Silvija Košćina, pronounced [sǐlʋija kǒʃtɕina]; 22 August 1933 – 26 December 1994) was a Yugoslav-born Italian actress, maybe best remembered for her role as Iole, the bride of Hercules (Steve Reeves) in Hercules (1958) and Hercules Unchained (1960). She also played Paul Newman's romantic interest in The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sylva Koscina, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1992
- Ricky & Barabba as Cristina Bonelli
1991
- L'odissea as Minerva
1987
- Rimini Rimini as sorella dell'ingegnere
1984
- Cinderella '80 as Mafalda Gherardeschi
- ...e la vita continua as Evelina
- Die Nacht der vier Monde as (special guest)
1983
- This and That as Dora, madre di Daniela
- Magic Touch as Contessa Irene
1981
- Ace as Enrichetta
1980
- Sunday Lovers as Zaira (segment "Armando's Notebook")
1977
- Casanova & Co. as The Prefect's Wife
1975
- Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza as Mariù
- The House of Exorcism as Sophia Lehar (archive footage)
1974
- Witness to Murder as Sonja Dorigny
- Las correrías del Vizconde Arnau as Zoraida
- The Author's Crime as Milena Gottardi
1973
- My Pleasure Is Your Pleasure as La moglie del tintore
- Lisa and the Devil as Sophia Lehar
1972
- So Sweet, So Dead as Barbara Capuana
- The Italian Connection as Lucia Canali
- The Crimes of the Black Cat as Françoise Ballais
- Blessed Are the Rich as Contessa
- Nights of Boccaccio as Fiammetta
- To Kill in Silence as Valeria's mother
1971
- Homo Eroticus as Carla
- African Story as Barbara Hayland (as Silva Koscina)
- The Great Swindle as Lola
- You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbor's Wife as Susana
- Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? as La moglie del presentatore
- Les Jambes en l'air as Favouille Grandblaise
- Sex of the Devil as Sylvia, the Assistant
1970
- The Modification as Cécile
- Hornets' Nest as Bianca
- Vertigo For A Killer as Sylvie
- Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move as La baronessa di Valdarno
- The Dove Must Not Fly as Anne
1969
- I See Naked as Self
- Marquis de Sade: Justine as Marquise de Bressac
- The Battle of Neretva as Danica
- The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal as Theodora
- He and She as She
1968
- The Secret War of Harry Frigg as Countess Francesca De Montefiore
- A Lovely Way to Die as Rena Westabrook
- The Fight for Rome as Empress Theodora
- The Protagonists as Nancy
1967
- Johnny Banco as Laureen Moore
- Three Bites of the Apple as Carla Moretti
- Deadlier Than the Male as Penelope
- Italy's in Season as Self
1966
- Me, Me, Me... and the Others as The 'Star'
- Four Queens for an Ace as Dolores Arrabal, Fashion Designer
- Funny Money as Lucile
- Agent X-77 Orders to Kill as Mania
1965
- Money as Leda
- That Man in Istanbul as Kenny
- Il morbidone as Irene
- Juliet of the Spirits as Sylva
- Made in Italy as Diana (segment "3 'La Donna', episode 3") (as Silva Koscina)
- The Dictator's Guns as Rae Osborne
- The Double Bed as Giulietta / Peggy
- Thrilling as Paola (segment "L'autostrada del sole")
1964
- Cyrano and d'Artagnan as Ninon de Lenclos
- Let's Talk About Women as Reluctant Girl
- Love and Marriage as (segment "Sabato 18 luglio")
- Corpse for the Lady as Laura Guglielmetti
- The Circular Triangle as Alexandra Fonseca
- Hot Enough for June as Vlasta Simoneva
- Love in Four Dimensions as Irma, la moglie (segment "Amore e vita")
- Una storia di notte as Maddalena
1963
- Judex as Daisy
- Rampage as Stewardess
- The Shortest Day
- Girl's Apartment as Eléna
- The Scapegoat as Clemenza, Barbo's Wife
- The Little Nuns as Elena
1962
- Jessica as Nunzia Tuffi
- The Masseuses as Marisa
- The Iron Mask as Marion
- The Four Truths as Mia (segment "Le lièvre et le tortue")
- The Swordsman of Siena as Orietta Arconti
- Copacabana Palace as Ines
- La salamandre d'or as (uncredited)
1961
- Destination Fury
- Blood Feud as Carla
1960
- Trapped by Fear as Arabelle
- The Traffic Policeman as Herself
- ...And Suddenly It's Murder! as Carolina
- Mariti in pericolo as Silvana
- I piaceri dello scapolo as Eby
- Siege of Syracuse as Clio
- Love, the Italian Way as Luciana
- Le pillole di Ercole as Silvia Pasqui
- Genitori in blue-jeans as Elena
- Ravishing as Evelyne Cotteret
1959
- Uncle Was a Vampire as Carla
- Hercules Unchained as Iole, bride of Ercole
- The Surprises of Love as Marianna
- La cambiale as Odette Mercury
- The Woman's Confidant as Maria Bonifati
- Poor Millionaires as Alice
1958
- Dangerous Women as Tosca
- Hercules as Iole, Daugher of Pelias
- Young Husbands as Mara
- Toto in Paris as Juliette Marchand
- Love on the Riviera as Renata Morandi
- Totò in the Moon as Lidia
- Quando gli angeli piangono as Marta
- He Thief, She Thief as Cesira De Angelis
- La nipote Sabella as Lucia
1957
- Guendalina as Francesca Redaelli, madre di Guendalina
- Oh! Sabella as Lucia
- Female Three Times as Sonia
- The Mighty Crusaders as Clorinda (as Silva Koscina)
- Non sono più guaglione as Carolina
- The Innocent with Forty Children as Gina Lantois
- Engaged to Death as Lucia
1956
- The Railroad Man as Giulia Marcocci
- Michael Strogoff as Sangarine
1955
- Are We Men or Corporals? as The aspiring actress
1954
- Reflets de Cannes as Self
1951
- Sanremo Music Festival as Self - Host