Isabel Sarli
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Hilda Isabel Gorrindo Sarli (9 July 1929, Concordia, Entre Rios, Argentina - 25 June 2019, Buenos Aires, Argentina), nicknamed Coca, was an Argentine actress. She began her career as a model, becoming Miss Argentina and reaching the semi-finals of Miss Universe 1955. She was discovered by director Armando Bo in 1956 and made her acting debut the following year with Thunder Among the Leaves, in which a nude scene featuring Sarli made it the first film to feature full frontal nudity in Argentine cinema. As the muse and protagonist of Bo's films, Sarli became the quintessential sex symbol of her country and a popular figure worldwide, starring in over thirty films including Carne (1968), Fuego (1969) and Fiebre (1972). After Bo's death in 1981 she virtually retired from acting. In 2012 she was named Argentine Ambassador of Popular Culture.
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- Isabel Sarli in a floral dress, 1974 — Wikimedia Commons Original source
- Isabel Sarli in a white gown in a 1960s film still — Wikimedia Commons Original source
- Isabel Sarli in a white gown with Francisco Rabal at Cannes — Wikimedia Commons Original source
- Isabel Sarli in a red jacket with Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at the Galeria de los Idolos Populares — Wikimedia Commons Original source
- Isabel Sarli in a red lace dress at the Guadalajara Film Festival, 2008 — Wikimedia Commons Original source
- Isabel Sarli in her wedding dress with her husband — Wikimedia Commons Original source
- Isabel Sarli in a film still from Setenta veces siete — Wikimedia Commons Original source
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At a glance
- Born
- 9 July 1929, Concordia, Entre Rios, Argentina; died 25 June 2019, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Career
- Miss Argentina 1955; Thunder Among the Leaves (1957); Carne (1968); Fuego (1969); Fiebre (1972); Ambassador of Popular Culture 2012
- Country
- Argentina
- Note
- Older sources give her birth year as 1935; 1929 is used here, consistent with her reported age of 89 at death. No Argentina category exists in the confirmed list, so only Female Performers is applied
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