Monica Swinn

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Monica Swinn
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Monica Swinn (2013)
Born
Monika Swuine

(1948-09-19) 19 September 1948 (age 72)
Charleroi, Belgium
OccupationActress
Years active1980–present

Monica Swinn, (born Monika Swuine; 19 September 1948) is a Belgian actress, best known for her roles in European softcore pornographic films of the 1970s, particularly those of the sexploitation and horror film genres. She acted in many of Jesús Franco's films,[1] which occasionally featured her in hardcore lesbian scenes with Lina Romay and another Franco regular, Alice Arno;[2] different versions of films such as Female Vampire (1973)[3] had to be produced because of their explicit scenes.[4] She tended to play characters with a sexual vulnerability, usually maids, prisoners or isolated aristocratic women, although two of her lead roles were as a sadistic wardress in Franco's women in prison film Barbed Wire Dolls (1976) and as a nightclub singer and Madam for the SS in Alain Payet's Nazisploitation film, Hitler's Last Train (1977). According to Swinn herself she was typecast, recalling after reading a typical Franco script: "I'd mull over the previous scenes and think to myself, "this can't be the same character"; "how many films am I really making".[1]

Filmography[]

  • (1970)
  • – Noose (uncredited) (1970)
  • (short) – Monelle (1970)
  • (short) – Cannibal girl (1970)
  • The Lover (1972)
  • (The Other Side of the Mirror) – Marie's Girlfriend (1973)
  • Female Vampire (The Bare Breasted Countess) – Princess de Rochefort (1973, released 1975)
  • (1974)
  • – Alba Ory (1974)
  • – Prisoner (1974)
  • (short) – Narrator (voice) (uncredited) (1974)
  • (1974)
  • The Demoniacs (Curse of the Living Dead) – Girl in tavern (1974)
  • – Draguse (1975)
  • – Olga Ramos (1975)
  • – Miss Hayes (1975)
  • – Fabienne Meunier – directrice de la maison de correction (1975)
  • – Mrs. Lapierre (1975)
  • (Linda's Hot Nights) (1975)
  • (1975)
  • (Nuns in Madness) (1975) – Simone
  • (1976) – Barmaid
  • (Doriana Gray) (1976) – journalist
  • (1976)
  • – Linda (1976)
  • Barbed Wire Dolls (1976) – The Wardress (1976)
  • – Pindar (1976)
  • (Helltrain) – Ingrid Schüler (1977)
  • – Madame Pécame (1977)
  • (1977)
  • (TV series), episode:Au bout du printemps (1977)
  • (Love Camp) – Maria (1977)
  • (1977)
  • – Greta (1978)
  • – Sandra Mauro (1978)
  • (The Sadist of Notre Dame) – Maria, a sadist (1979)
  • – Monelle (1979)
  • (1982)
  • The Duke of Burgundy (2014)

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Marsh, Steven; Nair, Parvati (2004). Gender and Spanish cinema. Oxford: Berg. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-85973-791-0.
  2. ^ Video watchdog. Tim & Donna Lucas. 1993. p. 8. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
  3. ^ Browning, John Edgar; Picart, Caroline Joan; Stoker, Dacre (2010). Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921–2010. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-7864-3365-0.
  4. ^ Silver, Alain; Ursini, James (1993). The vampire film: from Nosferatu to Bram Stoker's Dracula. New York: Limelight Editions. p. 219. ISBN 978-0-87910-170-1.

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