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Laura Gemser
Born: 5th Oct 1950 Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia
Dept: Acting
Laurette Marcia "Laura" Gemser (born October 5, 1950, Java, Indonesia) is a Dutch-based actress of Indo descent. She is known for her work with director Joe D'Amato and Bruno Mattei, in particular, for doing a set of exploitation-style and Black Emmanuelle films. Gemser has also been credited as Moira Chen, most notably in Love Is Forever (1983).
Gemser left Indonesia in 1955, at the age of four, and moved with her parents to the Netherlands. She grew up in the Dutch city of Utrecht, where she attended the MULO Regentesseschool high school. After that, she attended the Artibus Art School in Utrecht, where she specialized in fashion design. In 1975 she moved to Italy.
After modelling in various magazines in the Netherlands and Belgium, Gemser began to take part in some soft erotic films. She became internationally recognised after starring in a number of Black Emanuelle films in the 1970s.
Her most mainstream and well-received role was as Laotian refugee Keo Sirisomphone in Michael Landon's 1983 American television movie, Love Is Forever, in which she was credited as Moira Chen.[citation needed] Gemser continued to do films: at times, she worked with her actor husband, Gabriele Tinti. In the 1990s, she left the movies to do costume designing for film. In addition, she lost her husband, who died of cancer in 1991. Today she lives in retirement and low profile in Rome, but she is still remembered as one of the many beautiful women who played the sensual adventuress Emmanuelle.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 71
Film: 71 (100%)
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Filmography
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Sultry stars are always a welcome sight in horror films; a drop-dead sexy body can always balance out and gore. So if you're hungering for some female ... view
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2016
The story of the life and career of Italian actor Gabriele Tinti. ... view
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2001
Documentary about the Emmanuelle movies, looking at their making as well as their social and cultural impact. ... view
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Herself
2001
An overview over the career of prolific Italian filmmaker Joe D'Amato. ... view
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(archive footage)
1999
The story of Joe D'Amato, Italian director of sexploitation and gore, narrated by himself. ... view
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Black Emanuelle / Various Characters (archive footage)
1992
Joe d'Amato collects scenes from his movies that deal with two topics: voyeurism and masturbation. ... view
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(archive footage)
Original title: Tenera Storia
1992
Karen is a forty-year old woman who works in one of the largest hospitals in the town. She has an affair with Alan, the head physician of the same hos ... view
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Karen's secretary
Original title: Eleven days, eleven nights 2
1991
Sarah Asproon returns to New Orleans to act as executrix of the estate of a millionaire whom she was once the mistress of. She must decide which one o ... view
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Jackie Forrest
Original title: Il fiore della passione
1991
After years in prison, Jeff finally returns to his home town. Along the way he meets a beautiful girl. After a while he gets to the pharmacy owned by ... view
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Hooker (uncredited)
1990
When her ex-lover takes a job at her club as a dealer, a beautiful but bitter casino singer avenges herself by conspicuously bedding everything in pan ... view
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Sales Clerk
Original title: Sangue negli abissi
1990
Several young men have to stop an ancient native American evil in the form of a killer shark which is attacking a small beach community. ... view
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Lab Assistant (uncredited)
1990
Once upon a time a god gave a mighty sword to the king of Aquiles to bring justice to his people. Now he wants it back - but the king rather gives his ... view
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Grimilde
1990
A geneticists working on a drug to stop ageing tries it upon himself with horrendous consequences. ... view
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Prostitute
Original title: La stanza delle parole
1990
An unauthorized / uncredited / unofficial adaptation "based on the diaries of Anaïs Nin," this was made to compete with the same year's big budget an ... view
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(uncredited)
1990
Brenda Baker pursues a stellar career in the stock market business. But when she falls in love with Alex, it leads to unforeseen consequences. ... view
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Prostitute
1989
Raymond Derek is a up and coming hotshot young politician who seems to have it all. A great career, a wife, friends and a expensive home. But that all ... view
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Photographer (uncredited)
Original title: Pomeriggio caldo
1989
Courtney a young reporter is assigned to report on the story of a young woman who lost her husband in a bizarre voodoo ritual. He decides to take his ... view
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Dancer
1988
Valentine Demy and Susan Little star in this erotic tale of a young girl who sets off from the suburbs of New York City to seek fame as a dancer on Br ... view
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Massage Girl
Original title: Riflessi di luce
1988
After a car incident, in which he lost his wife, a musician remains paralytic on a wheelchair. He retires in a lonely villa. Incidentally together wit ... view
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Chiara
1988
Gloria works as a top nude model and prostitute, but she has a secret. In reality she is writer and social critic Sarah Asproon researching her new bo ... view
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Dorothy / Eve
1987
Skipper Alex Grimaldi has two weaknesses: his daughter, born from a previous relationship, and, obviously, his boat. Always with a Tuscan cigar in his ... view
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Original title: Undici giorni, undici notti
1987
In eleven days time, Michael is due to wed his fiancée Helen. However, a chance meeting with Sarah, a total stranger, threatens to destroy all his pl ... view
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Dorothy Tipton
1987
Humans fight mutants in a post-holocaust world. ... view
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Panasonic's Brother's Wife (uncredited)
1986
Italian fashion model living in New York decides to sell a villa located in the central Italian countryside and to make it back to their homeland. ... view
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Brian's Lover
1986
A woman on the run from zombies hides in a movie theater where a compilation of trailers and previews from films having to do with zombies is being sh ... view
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Self - Beryl (archive footage) (uncredited)
Original title: Voglia di guardare
1986
A distinguished surgeon, married to a beautiful woman, has the habit of watching his wife in secret. The man decides to grant his wife to the owner of ... view
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Josephine
Original title: Il Piacere
1985
Italy in the early 1930s. To the elderly aristocrat Gerard, all that is left of Leonora, the love of his life, are a number of erotic tape recordings. ... view
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Haunani
Original title: L'alcova
1985
In 1936 Italy, Elio returns home from Africa with a present for his wife in the form of Zerbal, the daughter of a tribal king. Unbeknown to him, his n ... view
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Zerbal
Original title: Endgame - Bronx lotta finale
1983
A telepathic mutant recruits a post World War III TV game show warrior to lead her band of mutants to safety. ... view
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Lilith
1983
Michael Landon stars in this real life story about a journalist in Laos, and the extent to which he will go for his girlfriend. ... view
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Keo Sirisomphone (as Moira Chen)
Original title: Le Déchaînement pervers de Manuela
1983
Investigative journalist Emanuelle breaks into a home to find a microfilm, which leads her to an "international expedition" in Hong Kong. This film wa ... view
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Manuela / Emanuelle (archive footage)
Original title: Ator 2 - L'invincibile Orion
1983
Muscle-bound Ator and his mute Asian sidekick travel from the ends of the Earth to save his aged mentor from the evil mustachioed Zor. ... view
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Indun (archive footage) (uncredited)
Original title: Blade Violent - I violenti
1983
Emanuelle is framed by a corrupt D.A. while investigating a drug smuggling operation and has to tough it out under lock and key, dealing with a strict ... view
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Emanuelle Arsan
Original title: Ator l'invincibile
1982
The son of Torren learns of his heritage, goes to avenge the deaths of his fellow villagers, and rescue his sister/love interest from the evil Dakkar ... view
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Indun
Original title: Horror Safari
1982
In the last days of WWII, a Japanese platoon is attacked by headhunters while attempting to hide millions in gold. Thirty-six years later, a grizzled ... view
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Maria
Original title: Violenza in un carcere femminile
1982
Laura Kendall, also known as Emanuelle, arrives at a remote prison with a long, fictional rap sheet that will allow her to go undercover to report on ... view
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Emanuelle / Laura
Original title: Messo comunale praticamente spione
1982
When Selenia arrives in the small Italian village heads start turning and eyes start popping. All males in the town are falling all over themselves tr ... view
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Dr. Selenia Anselmi
1982
Hosted by John Carradine, this tape is a compilation of scenes from and previews for various exploitation films. ... view
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(archive footage)
Original title: Caligola: La storia mai raccontata
1982
An insane young emperor finds his love of brutality and degradation surpassed only by his hunger for enslaved virgins, cruel vengeance, extreme acts o ... view
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Miriam
1982
A collection of nude and/or topless scenes from various films featuring actresses who were either famous at the time or who became famous later on. ... view
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Emanuelle (archive footage)
Original title: La belva dalla calda pelle
1982
Armed soldiers, thirsty and lost, run into the mysterious Sheila, who claims to be able to guide them to safety. ... view
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Sheila
1981
A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sen ... view
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Tomoe
Character:
The Divine One
1981
Michael is a successful actor, but he has a scandal in his past: at a tender age he knifed his father to death. He and his girlfriend Deborah go to hi ... view
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Beryl
Original title: Le notti erotiche dei morti viventi
1980
A sailor takes an American businessman and his girlfriend to an island where the businessman wants to build a resort. Soon a weird voodoo couple show ... view
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Luna
1980
Hybrid adult film composed of new footage shot in the Caribbean, and the remainder recycled and re-dubbed scenes from Joe D'Amato's 1976 horror-thrill ... view
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Eva
1980
A French police inspector with the help of Tazzi, a woman involved in a prostitution ring, track down the man who murdered Tazzi's sister. ... view
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Tazzi
Original title: Η Μαύρη Εμμανουέλα
1980
A woman struggles to keep her stepdaughter from harms way after she hires an assassin to kill her husband, but the hitman turns and blackmails her for ... view
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Emanuella Brindisi
1980
Rare workout video from the 1980s hosted by Laura Gemser, delivering her instructions to a team of toned and athletic dancers as they sweat and groove ... view
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Original title: Collections privées
1979
Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman ... view
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(segment "L'île aux sirènes")
Original title: El periscopio
1979
A pair of sexy bisexual nurses live in an apartment building, one floor up from a middle-aged couple and their son Albert, who is busy putting his new ... view
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Amiga de Verónica
Original title: Voglia di donna
1978
An erotic, comedic anthology film in which a young couple becomes addicted to having their trysts recorded, a woman cheats on her husband with an olde ... view
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La principessa africana - moglie di Bruno
Original title: La mujer de la tierra caliente
1978
A man and a woman hitch a ride in the dark and swap their sad tales of failed relationships. ... view
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The Woman
Original title: Emanuelle e le porno notti nel mondo n. 2
1978
Emanuelle hosts this peculiar sexploitation Mondo film that looks at several examples of bizarre sexual behavior. ... view
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Host / Emanuelle
Original title: La via della prostituzione
1978
Emanuelle returns to Kenya, trying to get an interview with a foreign gangster who's taken refuge in the African countryside while still operating an ... view
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Emanuelle
1978
A 40-year-old architect begins to doubt his role as a father in a world sliding into decadence. When he meets a young Polish girl he runs off with her ... view
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Air-Hostess
Original title: Le notti porno nel mondo
1977
Laura Gemser, as Emanuelle, takes viewers on a worldwide perv vacation and introduces footage of bizarre sexual behavior and performances in the style ... view
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Host / Emanuelle
Original title: Emanuelle e gli ultimi cannibali
1977
Intrepid photographer Emanuelle is taken deep into the Amazonian jungle to search for a cannibalistic tribe long believed to be extinct. ... view
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Emanuelle
Original title: Emanuelle - Perché violenza alle donne?
1977
The increasingly politicised Emanuelle gets deeper into fighting an international trade composed of sex, violence and high profile players. ... view
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Emanuelle
Original title: Suor Emanuelle
1977
Sister Emanuelle and Sister Nanà go to meet Mr. Cazzabriga, who has a problem: his wild-child daughter, Monica, who he wants to send to a Catholic sc ... view
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Sister Emanuelle
Original title: I due superpiedi quasi piatti
1977
An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store. ... view
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Suzy Lee
1977
The untameable photo reporter Emanuelle travels the world documenting the sexual practices of the rich and powerful, getting dangerously close to thei ... view
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Emanuelle
Original title: Voto di castità
1976
Before Joe D'amato made 1979's Buio Omega he touched upon death several times in his earlier works. This one is the first example of the director's st ... view
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Maid
1976
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival. ... view
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Estedes' Friend (uncredited)
Original title: Velluto nero
1976
Crystal, a wealthy, scorned woman living in a massive Egyptian palace with her daughter Magda, finds commiseration in a dried-up Hollywood expat who s ... view
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Laura
Original title: Eva nera
1976
After a swift courtship, wealthy bachelor Judas Carmichael invites a topless dancer to live with him and his abundant collection of exotic snakes. ... view
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Eva
Original title: La spiaggia del desiderio
1976
Shipwrecked on a tropical island, partying biker Daniel finds an increasingly threatening family living in the forest. ... view
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Haydee
Original title: Emanuelle nera: Orient reportage
1976
A reporter travels the world's hot spots, looking for lurid stories that usually involve her sexual participation in gaining those behind-the-scenes e ... view
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Emanuelle
Original title: Emmanuelle: L'antivierge
1975
Emmanuelle returns to her husband in Hong Kong and proceeds to have several extramarital affairs -- with his knowledge, of course. Her husband's lover ... view
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Masseuse
Original title: Emanuelle nera
1975
Internationally-renowned photographer Mae Jordan, professionally known as 'Emanuelle', is hired by a wealthy British expat to go to Nairobi to shoot t ... view
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Emanuelle
Original title: Amore libero
1974
An engineer named Francesco arrives on Emerald Island in the Seychelles and is instantly smitten with the local girl Jeanine, whose sister ran off wit ... view
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Jeanine