1938-01-04 Rimini, Italy
She was born Scilla Gabellini, one of five siblings, in Rimini on the Adriatic coast. Scilla initially studied law at Oxford University, graduating with a doctorate. Her interest in pursuing a legal career waned quickly, however, since her next move was a return to Italy for acting classes at Rome's Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica. At the age of seventeen, the voluptuous, blue-eyed Scilla became a body double for Sophia Loren (to whom she bore more than a passing resemblance), notably in the classic Boy on a Dolphin (1957). Two years later, she underwent cosmetic surgery to look less like Sophia in order to forge her own screen image. In 1963, Scilla featured on the cover of several magazines, including Playboy, the Milanese publication Le Ore and Parade (at the time, the most widely read weekly in the U.S.). Though she went on to command leads in a number of films during the 60s, Scilla tended to be typecast in roles which emphasized her physical attributes, rather than her acting ability. She appeared most often in genre films, anything from innocuous sex comedies (Genitori in blue-jeans (1960), Bel Ami 2000 oder Wie verführt man einen Playboy? (1966)) to swashbuckling costume dramas (La Venere dei pirati (1960)), and from spaghetti westerns (Johnny Golden Poker (1966)) to peplum spectacles (Death on the Arena (1962), The Revenge of Spartacus (1964)). After 1971, she was afforded more challenging and critically acclaimed roles as a star in Italian TV miniseries. Eleven years after leaving the screen, Scilla attracted media attention as a result of the murder of her 87-year old landlord father Giuseppe, by a crazed tenant at his villa on the via Campi di Torre Flavia in Ladispoli.
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Bastardo, vamos a matar | Susanna | 1971-03-06 |
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Johnny Belinda | Belinda | 1969-01-01 |
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Odissea | Elen | 1968-03-24 |
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Zärtliche Haie | Zeezee | 1967-03-10 |
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Bel Ami 2000 | Anita Bionda | 1966-11-23 |
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Djurado | Barbara Donovan | 1966-08-20 |
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Modesty Blaise | Melina | 1966-05-01 |
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Das Geheimnis der gelben Mönche | La Tigra | 1966-09-29 |
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Con rispetto parlando | Vittoria Oriani, in arte Patricia D'Altamura | 1965-08-14 |
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La Vendetta di Spartacus | Cinzia | 1964-09-24 |
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Gli schiavi più forti del mondo | Claudia | 1964-08-28 |
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Il figlio di Cleopatra | Livia | 1964-12-31 |
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Cadavere per signora | Renata | 1964-08-19 |
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Una storia di notte | Turista tedesca | 1964-01-01 |
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I fuorilegge del matrimonio | Wilma | 1963-12-03 |
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Il terrore dei mantelli rossi | Cristina | 1963-08-11 |
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I diavoli di Spartivento | Isabella - duchessina di Collinalto | 1963-10-31 |
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I 2 colonnelli | Iride | 1963-01-05 |
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Il giorno più corto | L'amante di un soldato (uncredited) | 1963-02-14 |
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La salamandre d'or | Béatrice | 1962-12-31 |
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Sodom and Gomorrah | Tamar | 1962-10-04 |
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Village of Daughters | Angelina Vimereati | 1962-03-13 |
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Un branco di vigliacchi | Signora De Rossi | 1962-03-02 |
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Maciste il gladiatore più forte del mondo | Thalima | 1962-09-13 |
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Le Puits aux trois vérités | Rossana | 1961-09-12 |
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Il ratto delle sabine | Dusia | 1961-11-15 |
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The Festival Girls | Nadja | 1961-07-06 |
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Mara | Mara | 1961-08-28 |
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Les filles sèment le vent | Kissa | 1961-06-22 |
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Noi duri | Josette | 1960-02-24 |
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La Venere dei pirati | Isabella, the Duke's Daughter | 1960-08-18 |
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Les canailles | Gina | 1960-01-29 |
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Il mulino delle donne di pietra | Elfie Wahl | 1960-08-30 |
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I piaceri del sabato notte | Patrizia | 1960-05-04 |
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Genitori in blue-jeans | Colette | 1960-02-10 |
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Tarzan's Greatest Adventure | Toni | 1959-07-08 |
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Agi Murad, il diavolo bianco | Princess Mario Vorontsova | 1959-06-21 |
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I ragazzi dei Parioli | Nuccia | 1959-02-18 |
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Gambe d'oro | Gianna Savelli | 1958-08-27 |
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Filles de nuit | Lola | 1958-04-16 |
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Gente felice | Gina | 1957-03-08 |
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Tua per la vita | La sartina dell' Atelier | 1955-10-04 |
