Laura Gemser
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laura Gemser, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Movies (50)
Come In Un Film: La Vera Storia Di Gabriele (Gastone) Tinti
2016
Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
as Herself
2001
Porno Holocaust - Die Filme des Joe D'Amato
as (archive footage)
2001
Joe D'Amato Totally Uncut - The Erotic Experience
as Black Emanuelle / Various Characters (archive footage)
1999
Il vizio infinito
as (archive footage)
1992
Love Project
as Karen's secretary
1992
A Woman's Secret
Costume Design (Costume & Make-Up)
1992
Door to Silence
Costume Design (Costume & Make-Up)
1991
Eleven Days, Eleven Nights 2
as Jackie Forrest
1991
The Crawlers
Costume Design (Costume & Make-Up)
1991
Passion's Flower
as Hooker (uncredited)
1991
Return from Death: Frankenstein 2000
Costume Design (Costume & Make-Up)
1991
Any Time, Any Play
as Sales Clerk
1990
Body Moves
Costume Design (Costume & Make-Up)
1990
Troll 2
Costume Design (Costume & Make-Up)
1990
Deep Blood
as Lab Assistant (uncredited)
1990
Quest for the Mighty Sword
as Grimilde
1990
Metamorphosis
as Prostitute
1990
Beyond Darkness
Costume Design (Costume & Make-Up)
1990
High Finance Woman
as Prostitute
1990
The Room of Words
as (uncredited)
1990
Blue Angel Cafe
as Photographer (uncredited)
1989
11 Days, 11 Nights Part 3
as Dancer
1989
Dirty Love
as Massage Girl
1988
Reflections of Light
as Chiara
1988
Top Model
as Dorothy / Eve
1988
Skipper
1987
Eleven Days, Eleven Nights
as Dorothy Tipton
1987
Interzone
as Panasonic's Brother's Wife (uncredited)
1987
Delizia
as Brian's Lover
1986
Peep Show
as Josephine
1986
The Pleasure
as Haunani
1985
The Alcove
as Zerbal
1985
Endgame
as Lilith
1983
Love is Forever
as Keo Sirisomphone (as Moira Chen)
1983
Emanuelle's Perverse Outburst
as Manuela / Emanuelle (archive footage)
1983
The Blade Master
as Indun (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Women's Prison Massacre
as Emanuelle Arsan
1983
Ator, the Fighting Eagle
as Indun
1982
Invaders of the Lost Gold
as Maria
1982
Violence in a Women's Prison
as Emanuelle / Laura
1982
Emanuelle in the Country
as Dr. Selenia Anselmi
1982
The Best of Sex and Violence
as (archive footage)
1982
Caligula: The Untold Story
as Miriam
1982
Famous T & A
as Emanuelle (archive footage)
1982
Emanuelle: Queen of the Desert
as Sheila
1982
The Bushido Blade
as Tomoe
1981
Divine Emanuelle
as The Divine One
1981
Murder Obsession
as Beryl
1981
Erotic Nights of the Living Dead
as Luna
1980