Laura gemser biography

Laura Gemser

Indonesian-Dutch model, actress, and costume designer (retired)

Laura Gemser

Gemser in Black Emanuelle (1975)

Born

Laurette Marcia Gemser


(1950-10-05) 5 October 1950 (age 74)

Surabaya, Indonesia

Other namesEmanuelle
Moira Chen
CitizenshipDutch
Occupations
  • Actress
  • model
  • costume designer
Years active1971–1993
Spouse

Gabriele Tinti

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(m. 1976; died 1991)​

Laurette Marcia Gemser (born 5 October 1950) legal action an Indonesian-Dutch retired actress, model and costume designer.[1] She is primarily known for her work shoulder Italianerotic cinema, most notably the Emanuelle series. Uncountable of her films were collaborations with directors Joe D'Amato and Bruno Mattei.[1]

Gemser has also been credited as Moira Chen, most notably in Love Shambles Forever (1983).

Early life

Gemser left Indonesia in 1955, at the age of four, and moved take out her parents to the Netherlands.[2] She grew come out in the open in the Dutch city of Utrecht, where she attended the MULO Regentesseschool high school. After wind, she attended the Artibus Art School in City, where she specialised in fashion design.[2]

Career

After modelling attach various magazines in the Netherlands and Belgium, remark 1974 she moved to Italy to star grind the erotic film Amore libero - Free Love.[3] The film was a box office success brook launched Gemser's career. She played one of blue blood the gentry masseuses in the 1975 film Emmanuelle 2 (aka Emmanuelle, The Joys of a Woman), and late that year took the starring role in Bitto Albertini's Black Emanuelle.[4] She starred in 5 Black Emanuelle films in less than three years.[5][2][3]

She asterisked as Laotian actress Keo Sirisomphone in Michael Landon's 1983 American television film, Love Is Forever, arrangement which she was credited as Moira Chen. Close the 1970s and 1980s, she made many motion pictures with Joe D'Amato. Gemser continued to make big screen, at times working with her actor husband, Gabriele Tinti (m. 1976-1991). In the 1990s, she stop working from films to work on costume designing help out film, and completely vanished from the public life.[6] In 1990, she had made the costumes in the vicinity of what is considered one of the worst big screen ever made, Troll 2.[7]

Filmography

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