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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 4, 1938
Place of Birth
Rimini, Italy
Also Known As
- Сцилла Габель
- Gianfranca Gabellini
Scilla Gabel
1.3 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
0.0
Liliana Balducci
That Awful Mess on Via Merulana
1983
8.2
Paola Silvestri
Dov'è Anna?
1976
4.6
Susanna
Bastard, Go and Kill
1971
🎬
0.0
Belinda
Johnny Belinda
1969
8.9
Elena
The Odyssey
1968
7.7
Elen
Odissea
1968
0.0
Zeezee
Tender Sharks
1967
6.0
Anita Bionda
How to Seduce a Playboy?
1966
6.1
La Tigra
Target for Killing
1966
0.0
Barbara Donovan
Djurado
1966
Credits
That Awful Mess on Via Merulana
as Liliana Balducci
1983
0.0
Dov'è Anna?
as Paola Silvestri
1976
8.2
Bastard, Go and Kill
as Susanna
1971
4.6
🎬
Johnny Belinda
as Belinda
1969
0.0
The Odyssey
as Elena
1968
8.9
Odissea
as Elen
1968
7.7
Tender Sharks
as Zeezee
1967
0.0
How to Seduce a Playboy?
as Anita Bionda
1966
6.0
Target for Killing
as La Tigra
1966
6.1
Djurado
as Barbara Donovan
1966
0.0
Modesty Blaise
as Melina
1966
5.3
Le donne del Tenente Sheridan
as Cheril
1965
0.0
Con rispetto parlando
as Vittoria Oriani, in arte Patricia D'Altamura
1965
6.0
Son of Cleopatra
as Livia
1964
4.0
The Revenge of the Gladiators
as Cinzia
1964
0.0
Seven Slaves Against the World
as Claudia
1964
9.0
Corpse for the Lady
as Renata
1964
5.1
Una storia di notte
as Turista tedesca
1964
0.0
Outlaws of Love
as Wilma
1963
5.0
Arms of the Avenger
as Isabella - duchessina di Collinalto
1963
8.5
Il terrore dei mantelli rossi
as Cristina
1963
5.0
The Shortest Day
as L'amante di un soldato (uncredited)
1963
6.2
Two Colonels
as Iride
1963
7.5
La salamandre d'or
as Béatrice
1962
0.0
Sodom and Gomorrah
as Tamar
1962
5.3
Colossus of the Arena
as Thalima
1962
4.0
Village of Daughters
as Angelina Vimereati
1962
5.5
No Man's Land
as Signora De Rossi
1962
7.0
Romulus and the Sabines
as Dusia
1961
5.0
Three Faces of Sin
as Rossana
1961
6.3
Mara
as Mara
1961
2.0
The Festival Girls
as Nadja
1961
5.0
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The Fruit Is Ripe
as Kissa
1961
6.0
Mill of the Stone Women
as Elfie Wahl
1960
6.0
The Queen of the Pirates
as Isabella, the Duke's Daughter
1960
4.9
I piaceri del sabato notte
as Patrizia
1960
1.7
Noi duri
as Josette
1960
6.5
Genitori in blue-jeans
as Colette
1960
6.3
Take Me As I Am
as Gina
1960
6.0
The White Warrior
as Princess Mario Vorontsova
1959
5.1
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
as Toni
1959
5.3
I ragazzi dei Parioli
as Nuccia
1959
6.7
Legs of Gold
as Gianna Savelli
1958
5.0
Girls of the Night
as Lola
1958
0.0
Gente felice
as Gina
1957
0.0
Tua per la vita
as La sartina dell' Atelier
1955
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