- Laura Gemser
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Laura Gemser Born 5 October 1950
Java, IndonesiaOccupation Actress Laurette Marcia "Laura" Gemser (born October 5, 1950, Java, Indonesia) is a Dutch-based actress of Indo descent, now Italian citizen. She is known for her work with director Joe D'Amato and Bruno Mattei, in particular, for doing a set of exploitation-style and Black Emanuelle films. Gemser has also been credited as Moira Chen, most notably in Love Is Forever (1983).
Gemser left Indonesia in 1955, at the age of four, and moved with her parents to the Netherlands.[1] She grew up in the Dutch city of Utrecht, where she attended the MULO Regentesseschool high school.[1] After that, she attended the Artibus Art School in Utrecht, where she specialized in fashion design.[1] In 1975 she moved to Italy.[1]
After modelling in various magazines in the Netherlands and Belgium, Gemser began to take part in some soft erotic films. She became internationally recognised after starring in a number of Black Emanuelle films in the 1970s.
Her most mainstream and well-received role was as Laotian refugee Keo Sirisomphone in Michael Landon's 1983 American television movie, Love Is Forever, in which she was credited as Moira Chen.[citation needed] Gemser continued to do films: at times, she worked with her actor husband, Gabriele Tinti. In the 1990s, she left the movies to do costume designing for film. In addition, she lost her husband, who died of cancer in 1991. Today she lives in retirement and low profile in Rome.
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Filmography
- Amore libero - Free Love (1974) ... as Janine
- Black Emanuelle (1975)
- Emmanuelle 2 (1975) ... as Masseuse
- Emmanuelle in Bangkok
- Voto di castità (1976) ... as Maid
- Emanuelle nera orient reportage (1976) ... as Emanuelle
- Eva nera (1976) ... as Eva
- Emanuelle in America (1977) ... as Emanuelle
- Suor Emanuelle (1977) ... as Emanuelle
- Emanuelle Around the World (1977) ... as Emanuelle
- Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977) ... as Emanuelle
- La Via della prostituzione (1978) ... Emanuelle
- Mavri Emmanouella (1979) ... as Black Emmanouella/Emanuelle Brindisi/Victor's wife/Livia's stepmother
- Periscopio, El (1979) aka Malizia erotica (Italy)
- Erotic Nights of the Living Dead (1980)
- Love Camp (1981)
- The Bushido Blade (1981) ... as Tomoe
- Caligola: la Storia mai raccontata (1982) ... as Miriam
- La Belva dalla calda pelle (1982) ... as Emanuelle
- Violence in a Women's Prison (1982) ... as Emanuelle/Laura Kendall
- Horror Safari (1982) ... as Maria
- Endgame - Bronx lotta finale (1983) ... as Lilith
- Déchaînement pervers de Manuela (1983) ... as Manuela/Emanuelle
- Emanuelle Escapes from Hell (1983) ... as Emanuelle
- Love Is Forever (1983) ... as Keo Sirisomphone (credited as Moira Chen)
- L'Alcova (1984) ... as Zerbal
- Il Piacere (1985) ... as Haunani
- Voglia di guardare (1986)
- Riflessi di luce (1988) ... as Diana
- Top Model (1988) ... as Dorothy/Eve
- Undici giorni, undici notti 2 (1990) ... as Jackie Forrest
- Quest for the Mighty Sword ... as Grimilde
- Metamorphosis (1990) ... prostitute
- Una Tenera storia (1992)
Costume designer credits
- Top Model (1988 film)
- Amore sporco (1988)
- La Stanza della parole (1990)
- Troll 3 (Contamination .7) (1990)
- La Casa (1990)
- Metamorphosis (1990)
- Troll 2 (1990)
- Hot steps - passi caldi (1990)
- Ritorno dalla morte (1991)
- La Donna di una sera (1991)
- Door to Silence (1991)
References
External links
Categories:- 1950 births
- Costume designers
- Dutch film actors
- Dutch people of Indonesian descent
- Indo people
- Living people
- People from Utrecht (city)
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