Sylvia Kristel

Birthday: 28 September 1952, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

Birth Name: Sylvia Maria Kristel

Height: 175 cm

Sylvia Kristel was born on September 28, 1952 in Utrecht, Netherlands. She first came to international attention in the early 1970s with Emmanuelle (1974) for director Just Jaeckin. Then two more sequels followed in which she also starred. Included in her credits are a long list of European films including the film Es war nicht die Nachtigall (1974), in which she played the lead. In 1979, she came to Hollywood, appearing in The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979) for producer Jennings Lang, who also featured her in the comedy film The Nude Bomb (1980). However, this was all a prelude to the most successful film in Kristel's career -- Private Lessons (1981) -- in which she played the housekeeper who initiates 15-year-old Eric Brown to the wonders of sex. The film grossed over $50,000,000 worldwide. The Dutch actress, who speaks four languages (Dutch, English, Italian and French), now made her home in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Sylvia Kristel died at age 60 of cancer in her sleep on October 18, 2012. Show less «

I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find ...Show more »

I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic! Show less «

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.

[from a 2005 Dutch newspaper interview] I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I k...Show more »

[from a 2005 Dutch newspaper interview] I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more. Show less «

I was a silent actress, a body. I belonged to dreams, to those who can't be broken.

Didn't they warn you? I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize. It's also a form o...Show more »

Didn't they warn you? I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize. It's also a form of protection. Show less «

I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of ...Show more »

I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce. Show less «

People say they miss the deceased. I missed my father and my mother when they were still fully alive...Show more »

People say they miss the deceased. I missed my father and my mother when they were still fully alive. They traveled through my childhood in the same way they moved around the hotel: my mother industrious, hurried, hidden; my father drunk, flamboyant, alone. Show less «

I realized that the public had been deeply affected by Emmanuelle (1974) and wanted to prolong their...Show more »

I realized that the public had been deeply affected by Emmanuelle (1974) and wanted to prolong their fantasy, to keep me within it, symbolic and naked, idealized and necessary. Show less «

I would now rather be very healthy and strong as a horse but it is nice to be attractive.

[on how the public perceived her] People don't assume that John Wayne shoots people and rides a hors...Show more »

[on how the public perceived her] People don't assume that John Wayne shoots people and rides a horse on weekends. People think I'm a nymphomaniac. Show less «

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