Scilla Gabel

Personal Info

Birthday

January 4, 1938

(87 years old)

Place of Birth

Rimini, Italy

Also Known As

Сцилла Габель

Gianfranca Gabellini

Scilla Gabel

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.

Known For

The Odyssey

Three Faces of Sin

Le donne del Tenente Sheridan

Sodom and Gomorrah

That Awful Mess on Via Merulana

Bastard, Go and Kill

Dov'è Anna?

Modesty Blaise

Filmography

1971
Bastard, Go and Kill
as Susanna
1969
Johnny Belinda
as Belinda
1968
Odissea
as Elen
1967
Tender Sharks
as Zeezee
1966
How to Seduce a Playboy?
as Anita Bionda
Target for Killing
as La Tigra
Djurado
as Barbara Donovan
Modesty Blaise
as Melina
1965
Con rispetto parlando
as Vittoria Oriani, in arte Patricia D'Altamura
1964
Son of Cleopatra
as Livia
The Revenge of the Gladiators
as Cinzia
Seven Slaves Against the World
as Claudia
Corpse for the Lady
as Renata
Una storia di notte
as Turista tedesca
1963
Outlaws of Love
as Wilma
Arms of the Avenger
as Isabella - duchessina di Collinalto
Il terrore dei mantelli rossi
as Cristina
The Shortest Day
as L'amante di un soldato (uncredited)
Two Colonels
as Iride
1962
La salamandre d'or
as Béatrice
Sodom and Gomorrah
as Tamar
Colossus of the Arena
as Thalima
Village of Daughters
as Angelina Vimereati
No Man's Land
as Signora De Rossi
1961
Romulus and the Sabines
as Dusia
Three Faces of Sin
as Rossana
Mara
as Mara
The Festival Girls
as Nadja
The Fruit Is Ripe
as Kissa
1960
Mill of the Stone Women
as Elfie Wahl
The Queen of the Pirates
as Isabella, the Duke's Daughter
I piaceri del sabato notte
as Patrizia
Noi duri
as Josette
Genitori in blue-jeans
as Colette
Take Me As I Am
as Gina
1959
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
as Toni
The White Warrior
as Princess Mario Vorontsova
I ragazzi dei Parioli
as Nuccia
1958
Legs of Gold
as Gianna Savelli
Girls of the Night
as Lola
1957
Gente felice
as Gina
1955
Tua per la vita
as La sartina dell' Atelier