Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 05, 1950
Place of Birth
Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia
Credits
79 titles
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
Known For
Filmography
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
Self (archival footage)
Come In Un Film: La Vera Storia Di Gabriele (Gastone) Tinti
Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
Herself
Porno Holocaust - Die Filme des Joe D'Amato
(archive footage)
Joe D'Amato Totally Uncut - The Erotic Experience
Black Emanuelle / Various Characters (archive footage)
A Woman's Secret
Costume Design
Love Project
Karen's Secretary
Il vizio infinito
(archive footage)
Door Into Silence
Costume Design
Eleven Days, Eleven Nights 2
Jackie Forrest
The Crawlers
Costume Design
Passion's Flower
Hooker (uncredited)
Return from Death: Frankenstein 2000
Costume Design
Any Time, Any Play
Sales Clerk
Body Moves
Costume Design
Troll 2
Costume Design
Deep Blood
Lab Assistant (uncredited)
Quest for the Mighty Sword
Grimilde
Metamorphosis
Prostitute
Beyond Darkness
Costume Design
High Finance Woman
Prostitute
The Room of Words
(uncredited)
Blue Angel Cafe
Photographer (uncredited)
11 Days, 11 Nights Part 3
Dancer
Dirty Love
Massage Girl
Reflections of Light
Chiara
Top Model
Dorothy / Eve
Skipper
Eleven Days, Eleven Nights
Dorothy Tipton
Interzone
Panasonic's Brother's Wife (uncredited)
Delizia
Brian's Lover
Zombiethon
Self - Beryl (archive footage) (uncredited)
Peep Show
Josephine
The Pleasure
Haunani
The Alcove
Zerbal
Endgame
Lilith
Love is Forever
Keo Sirisomphone (as Moira Chen)
Emanuelle's Perverse Outburst
Manuela / Emanuelle (archive footage)
The Blade Master
Indun (archive footage) (uncredited)
Women's Prison Massacre
Emanuelle Arsan
Ator, the Fighting Eagle
Indun
Invaders of the Lost Gold
Maria
Violence in a Women's Prison
Emanuelle / Laura
Emanuelle in the Country
Dr. Selenia Anselmi
The Best of Sex and Violence
(archive footage)
Caligula: The Untold Story
Miriam
Emanuelle: Queen of the Desert
Sheila
Famous T & A
Emanuelle (archive footage)
The Bushido Blade
Tomoe
Divine Emanuelle
The Divine One