Fenech was born in Bône now Annaba in French Algeria to a Maltese father and Sicilian mother From the late 1960s to early 1980s Fenech starred in many types of European movies She is best known for her erotic comedies and began to work in that field in the late 1960s with Austrian director Franz Antel Fenech also achieved fame with giallo and sex films such as Five Dolls for an August Moon Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key and Sex with a Smile many of which were directed by Sergio Martino In the 1980s she became a television personality typically appearing with Barbara Bouchet on a chat show on Italian television In the mid1990s she was engaged to the wellknown Italian industrialist Luca di Montezemolo After many years of work in movie production she produced among others The Merchant of Venice 2004 with Al Pacino Fenech accepted Quentin Tarantinos offer to star in another movie Hostel Part II 2007 directed by Eli Roth A British general named Ed Fenech played by Mike Myers is a character in Tarantinos 2009 film Inglourious Basterds Description above from the Wikipedia article Edwige Fenech licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia