Brigitte Borghese
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Brigitte Borghese is an Israeli
-born actress. She is best known for her roles in Jean Rollin
's Les Trottoirs de Bangkok
and Operation Las Vegas.
's Cours Simon Drama School.
's 1969 film Margo Sheli. She has appeared in adult and traditional films. During the seventies she had roles in several films, her first being, a part in the adult feature Je prends la chose... du bon côté!, La bonzesse, Tout le monde il en a deux, her first time working with French director Jean Rollin, the fantasy horror Tendre Dracula, with Peter Cushing
and Alida Valli
, ...et mourir de désir, Les petites saintes y touchent, Les bijoux de famille, Le commando des chauds lapins, and L'hippopotamours.
She is perhaps best known for her role as gang leader 'Rita' in Jean Rollin's 1984 classic Les Trottoirs de Bangkok, her second time working with the director. Her final appearance in a Rollin film was in the comedy Ne prends pas les poulets pour des pigeons.
It was during the eighties that Borghese's acting career began to cease. In the nineties, she had the leading role in the action film Operation Las Vegas, with Richard Harrison
. In 1998, Borghese again played a leading role in the American/French television film Brookyn Cop. Following her role in Brooklyn Cop, Borghese was to again work with director N.G. Mount in his next film Britta the Torture, but the project remains unfinished.
Israeli
Israeli may refer to:* Something of, from, or related to the country of Israel* Israelis, people from Israel, or of Israeli descent. For more information about the Israeli people, see:**Demographics of Israel**Culture of Israel**Israelites...
-born actress. She is best known for her roles in Jean Rollin
Jean Rollin
Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his films in the fantastique genre such as the vampire film Le Viol du Vampire and the first French gore film Les Raisins de la Mort .-Early life:Jean Rollin was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine , France to...
's Les Trottoirs de Bangkok
Les Trottoirs de Bangkok
Les Trottoirs des Bangkok is a 1984 film directed by Jean Rollin. The film is inspired by the 1932 Boris Karloff classic The Mask of Fu Manchu and is not what you would usually expect from a Rollin movie - vampires, dream-like atmospheres and crumbling chateau's, instead here he mixes themes of...
and Operation Las Vegas.
Early life
Brigitte Borghese was born in 1955 in Israel. She decided on being an actress from an early age and moved to Paris, France, where she trained at René SimonRené Simon
René Simon, , born in Troyes was a French actor and founder in 1925 of the Cours Simon drama school.-External links:...
's Cours Simon Drama School.
Career
Borghese made her acting debut in Menahem GolanMenahem Golan
Menahem Golan is an Israeli director and producer. He has produced movies for such stars as Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Charles Bronson, and was known for a period as a producer of comic book-style movies like Masters of the Universe, Superman IV:...
's 1969 film Margo Sheli. She has appeared in adult and traditional films. During the seventies she had roles in several films, her first being, a part in the adult feature Je prends la chose... du bon côté!, La bonzesse, Tout le monde il en a deux, her first time working with French director Jean Rollin, the fantasy horror Tendre Dracula, with Peter Cushing
Peter Cushing
Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played the handsome but sinister scientist Baron Frankenstein and the vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing, amongst many other roles, often appearing opposite Christopher Lee, and occasionally...
and Alida Valli
Alida Valli
Alida Valli , sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico, Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case, Carol Reed's The Third Man, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido, Luchino Visconti's Senso, Bernardo...
, ...et mourir de désir, Les petites saintes y touchent, Les bijoux de famille, Le commando des chauds lapins, and L'hippopotamours.
She is perhaps best known for her role as gang leader 'Rita' in Jean Rollin's 1984 classic Les Trottoirs de Bangkok, her second time working with the director. Her final appearance in a Rollin film was in the comedy Ne prends pas les poulets pour des pigeons.
It was during the eighties that Borghese's acting career began to cease. In the nineties, she had the leading role in the action film Operation Las Vegas, with Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison (actor)
Richard Harrison is an American B-movie actor and occasionally a writer/director/producer.Harrison was very prolific and worked with most of the better-known names in European B-movies during the 1960s and 1970s, branching out to exploitation films shot all over the world in the early 1970s...
. In 1998, Borghese again played a leading role in the American/French television film Brookyn Cop. Following her role in Brooklyn Cop, Borghese was to again work with director N.G. Mount in his next film Britta the Torture, but the project remains unfinished.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Margo Sheli | ||
| 1973 | Je prends la chose... du bon côté! | ||
| 1974 | La bonzesse | Marie-Paule | |
| 1974 | Tout le monde il en a deux | Malvina | |
| 1974 | Tendre Dracula | La secrétaire du producteur | |
| 1974 | ...et mourir de désir | Nelly | |
| 1974 | Les petites saintes y touchent | Joan, la leader du MLF | |
| 1975 | Les bijoux de famille | ||
| 1975 | Le commando des chauds lapins | ||
| 1976 | L'hippopotamours | Paméla | |
| 1984 | Les Brésiliennes du Bois de Boulogne | ||
| 1984 | Les Trottoirs de Bangkok Les Trottoirs de Bangkok Les Trottoirs des Bangkok is a 1984 film directed by Jean Rollin. The film is inspired by the 1932 Boris Karloff classic The Mask of Fu Manchu and is not what you would usually expect from a Rollin movie - vampires, dream-like atmospheres and crumbling chateau's, instead here he mixes themes of... |
Rita | The Sidewalks of Bangkok |
| 1985 | Le facteur de Saint-Tropez | Hélène de Lespinasse | |
| 1985 | Ne prends pas les poulets pour des pigeons | ||
| 1987 | La peau de l'ours n'est pas à vendre | ||
| 1990 | Operation Las Vegas | Britta | |
| 1992 | Trepanator | Kim | Direct-to-video |
| 1995 | Le syndrome d'Edgar Poe | Direct-to-video | |
| 1998 | Brooklyn Cop | Television film |