Teresa Ann Savoy
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.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 7.873 |
Birthday | 1955-07-18 |
Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
Also Known As | Тереса Енн Савой, Terese Ann Savoy, Therese Ann Savoy, |
1979
Caligula
5.998/838
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravit...
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Caligula
1976
Salon Kitty
5.581/124
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army off...
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Salon Kitty
1976
Private Vices, Public Virtues
5.3/31
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Private Vices, Public Virtues
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Bambina
4.9/33
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Bambina
1984
The Kid From Ebalus
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The Kid From Ebalus
2000
The Steam Factory
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The Ferrywoman
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Disobedience
3.9/8
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The Tyrant's Heart, or Boccaccio in Hungary
5.4/8
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Love Sins
3/2
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Love Sins
2007
My Roman Holiday With John Steiner
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The Tiger Is Still Alive: Sandokan to the Rescue
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