"Emmanuelle" Sylvia Kristel Is Dead
With the "Emmanuelle" films she became famous, now she died at age 60 from cancer: Sylvia Kristel. She was known as the queen of soft porn and possibly internationally known actress of the Netherlands.
The "Emmanuelle" actress Sylvia Kristel is dead, the Dutch actress died on Wednesday evening at the age of 60 years from the effects of cancer, such as its management announced on Thursday in Amsterdam.
"Sylvia died in his sleep," said spokeswoman Emma Onrust the news agency dpa. She is to be buried in the family circle. Nine times she played the title role in "Emmanuelle" movies. Its success gave her roles in 50 feature films, including with famous directors such as Claude Chabrol and Roger Vadim.
Really wanted to be born in 1952 in Utrecht, daughter of a hotelier nun. But then she trained as a secretary and started in the 70s, a modeling career.
In 1973, the petite dark-haired Dutch the lead role in the French film "Emmanuelle" was offered, about the erotic adventures of a beautiful young woman with her older husband in Thailand. In 1974 he came to the cinema.
Had her then-husband, 18-year-old Belgian writer Hugo Claus, Kristel talked about the role, she once said in an interview. "In Thailand, we were not, he said, and also is the movie is not yet in the Netherlands, so your mother will not see him." But it was different. Worldwide several hundred million people went to the movies, too many women, like Kristel often told himself.
The strip made soft pornography acceptable, say film experts and sexologists. And from Kristel he made the "Dutch actress best known abroad," as the agency says.
In many of her films she showed nudity, Kristel was on the silver screen as "Lady Chatterley" (1981) or the Dutch spy, "Mata Hari" (1985). But big box office hit this works rather not.
The news of her death sparked consternation. "We're getting reports from all over the world, even from China," said Emma Onrust. The funeral was large. "She was a sweet, intelligent and funny woman." But the world knew Sylvia Kristel especially as the queen of soft porn.
"She had little talent," said the well-known actor in the Netherlands Huub Stapel, "but a treasure." She was a fragile woman balancing on the edge and often been exploited by some partners financially, be remembered other colleagues. "My confidence is a very thin skin," Kristel gave to himself. In Hollywood, she got into the 80s in the vortex of alcohol and drugs.
She spent her final years in Amsterdam. She began to paint. For them it was a kind of therapy. And she also appeared in plays. But for the world they remained "Emmanuelle".
Ten years ago, Sylvia Kristel became ill with cancer for the first time. The disease returned last year. In July, she also suffered a severe stroke. Her son from her relationship with Hugo Claus explained a little later, that there is no hope for improvement.
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"Sylvia died in his sleep," said spokeswoman Emma Onrust the news agency dpa. She is to be buried in the family circle. Nine times she played the title role in "Emmanuelle" movies. Its success gave her roles in 50 feature films, including with famous directors such as Claude Chabrol and Roger Vadim.
Really wanted to be born in 1952 in Utrecht, daughter of a hotelier nun. But then she trained as a secretary and started in the 70s, a modeling career.
In 1973, the petite dark-haired Dutch the lead role in the French film "Emmanuelle" was offered, about the erotic adventures of a beautiful young woman with her older husband in Thailand. In 1974 he came to the cinema.
Had her then-husband, 18-year-old Belgian writer Hugo Claus, Kristel talked about the role, she once said in an interview. "In Thailand, we were not, he said, and also is the movie is not yet in the Netherlands, so your mother will not see him." But it was different. Worldwide several hundred million people went to the movies, too many women, like Kristel often told himself.
The strip made soft pornography acceptable, say film experts and sexologists. And from Kristel he made the "Dutch actress best known abroad," as the agency says.
In many of her films she showed nudity, Kristel was on the silver screen as "Lady Chatterley" (1981) or the Dutch spy, "Mata Hari" (1985). But big box office hit this works rather not.
The news of her death sparked consternation. "We're getting reports from all over the world, even from China," said Emma Onrust. The funeral was large. "She was a sweet, intelligent and funny woman." But the world knew Sylvia Kristel especially as the queen of soft porn.
"She had little talent," said the well-known actor in the Netherlands Huub Stapel, "but a treasure." She was a fragile woman balancing on the edge and often been exploited by some partners financially, be remembered other colleagues. "My confidence is a very thin skin," Kristel gave to himself. In Hollywood, she got into the 80s in the vortex of alcohol and drugs.
She spent her final years in Amsterdam. She began to paint. For them it was a kind of therapy. And she also appeared in plays. But for the world they remained "Emmanuelle".
Ten years ago, Sylvia Kristel became ill with cancer for the first time. The disease returned last year. In July, she also suffered a severe stroke. Her son from her relationship with Hugo Claus explained a little later, that there is no hope for improvement.