Edwige Fenech

Biography

Edwige Fenech is a French-Italian actress and film producer born on December 24, 1948, in Bône, French Algeria, to a Maltese father and Sicilian mother. She rose to fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s with erotic comedies and giallo films, including "Five Dolls for an August Moon" and "Sex with a Smile." Fenech also transitioned to television personality and later production, producing Al Pacino's "The Merchant of Venice" before returning to acting in the 2000s.