Laura Gemser

Laurette Marcia Laura Gemser born October 5 1950 Java Indonesia is a Dutchbased actress of Indo descent She is known for her work with director Joe DAmato and Bruno Mattei in particular for doing a set of exploitationstyle 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 wellreceived role was as Laotian refugee Keo Sirisomphone in Michael Landons 1983 American television movie Love Is Forever in which she was credited as Moira Chencitation 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia