Teresa Ann Savoy

Born: 1955-07-18

Teresa Ann Savoy, FRSA (18 July 1955 – 9 January 2017) was a British actress who appeared in a number of Italian films. Savoy was 18 years old when she appeared in the Italian adult magazine Playmen (October 1973), using an alias of "Terry". "Terry", who fled from home at 16, was living in a hippie community in Sicily and soon became an attention of the press. In 1974, her acting career began when film director Alberto Lattuada (who discovered Federico Fellini and Silvana Mangano) gave her first role in the film Le farò da padre aka La bambina, playing an intellectually disabled girl named Clotilde. Her next film was Private Vices, Public Pleasures (Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù) (1975) directed by the Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó. The film told the story of the Crown Prince Rudolf, son of the Austrian-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph and his rebellion against his father. Teresa played the baroness Mary Vetsera, Rudolf's lover, but in Jancso's vision, she appears as an intersex person. In 1975 Savoy met Tinto Brass and they worked together in the successful film Salon Kitty (1976). In the film she played a young BDM girl (League of German Maidens, a female Nazi youth organization) who becomes a spy that poses as a prostitute for the SS Nazi paramilitary organization. In 1979 Brass directed her again as Drusilla in the controversial film Caligula. In 1977 Savoy played Jamilah in the Italian film made for TV Sandokan alla riscossa! (Sandokan to the Rescue) based on the Sandokan novels by Emilio Salgari. Savoy made a return to cinema in 1981 with La disubbidienza by Aldo Lado, where she played Edith, an attractive Jewish governess. The film covered events under the reign of the Republic of Salò. In the same year, director Miklós Jancsó worked with her again in the film A zsarnok szíve, avagy Boccaccio Magyarországon (The Tyrant's Heart) in which she played alongside Ninetto Davoli. Savoy died of cancer on 9 January 2017 in Milan, where she lived with her husband and two children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Teresa Ann Savoy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia


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Caligula

as Drusilla
Released: 1979-08-14

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges...

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Salon Kitty

as Margherita
Released: 1976-03-02

Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have...

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Private Vices, Public Virtues

as Mary
Released: 1976-05-06

The setting is a Central European kingdom, near the turn of the century. Bored by his very...

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Bambina

as Clotilde Spina
Released: 1974-09-17

In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday...

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Disobedience

as Edith
Released: 1981-07-15

Luca Manzi is a fourteen year old boy when the Northern Italy Republic of Salò is governed by...

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Love Sins

as Maria di Gallese
Released: 1987-01-30

A biographical feature on the Italian literary giant, Gabriele D'Annunzio. Set in late 19th...

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The Tiger Is Still Alive: Sandokan to the Rescue

as Jamilah
Released: 1977-12-22

The pirate Sandokan, the Bengal tiger and the East India Company's terror, fighting the British...

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The Kid From Ebalus

as Young Terrorist
Released: 1984-09-01

During the Years of Lead in Italy, a student approaches extra-parliamentary terrorist groups,...

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The Tyrant's Heart, or Boccaccio in Hungary

as uncredited
Released: 1981-10-26

A historical drama set in the 1400s, a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his...

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The Ferrywoman

as Viola
Released: 1986-04-09

Giulì is a traveling puppeteer who meets Viola, a young ferrywoman who transports passengers on...

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The Steam Factory

as Magazziniera
Released: 2000-05-06

Antonella is an architect who cannot forget her husband Riki, a famous surgeon who suddenly...

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The Charterhouse of Parma

as Princess Pallavicino
First aired: 1982-09-12

Stendhal's epic tale of a young French officer in the Napoleonic wars, and his aunt - a duchess...

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