Erika Blanc
Acting
- Born:
- 1942-07-23
- Place of birth:
- Gargnano, Lombardia, Italy
Biography
Erika Blanc (born Enrica Bianchi Colombatto, 23 July 1942, Gargnano, province of Brescia, Italy) is an Italian actress. She began her career in 1964 with an uncredited role in Il disco volante by Tinto Brass (Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano), then became a fixture of Italian genre cinema — spy thrillers, spaghetti westerns, and Euro-horror — appearing in Kill, Baby, Kill (1966) and The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971). Her most iconic role was the first fictional Emmanuelle in Io, Emmanuelle (1969). She was married to director Bruno Gaburro (1962–1977) and is the mother of actress Barbara Blanc. A career renaissance came with Ferzan Özpetek: Le fate ignoranti (2001) and Cuore sacro (2005), for which she won the Flaiano Film Festival Best Supporting Actress and received a David di Donatello nomination. Her filmography includes: Kill, Baby, Kill (1966) (Edwige Fenech, George Eastman); Io, Emmanuelle (1969) (Marie Laforêt, Giacomo Rossi Stuart); The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971) (Carole André, Paul Naschy); The Devil's Nightmare (1971) (Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Marina Malfatti); Tony Arzenta (1973) (Franco Nero, Marina Berti); Eye of the Cat (1976) (John Saxon, Tony Musante); Le fate ignoranti (2001) (Stefano Accorsi, Neri Marcorè); Cuore sacro (2005) (Fabio Acca, Sonia Bergamasco); Studio illegale (2013) (Fabio Volo, Zoé Félix); Dante (2022) (Pierfrancesco Favino, Micaela Ramazzotti).
Known For
Filmography
Cose nere
The Dew Point
All Eyes on Erika
When We Were Vampires
Dante
Free - Liberi
Dolcemente complicate
Houseguests
Parents in Progress
Erika et le diable
Bava Puzzle
Il premio
I Have Friends in Heaven
Witchhunt in Mauterndorf
I Killed Napoleon
Vinodentro
The Bad Child
The Untidiness of the Heart
Studio illegale
The Big Heart of Girls
First Happiness
Love & Slaps
A Second Childhood
Fratelli
Sacred Heart
Adored
The Cruelest Day
Francesco
Voices
Carabinieri
Lo zio d'America
His Secret Life
Cuori rubati
Eurotika!
The Last Moons
Leo e Beo
Body Puzzle
Edera
Halloween Monster Bash
Mak pigreco 100
Dream of a Summer Night
Pourvoir
Inmate
Double Life
Racconti fantastici
Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra
Puzzle
L'amantide
The Mistress is Served
The Naked Doorwoman
Erotic Games of a Respectable Family
Eye of the Cat
A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
Bruna, Shapely, Seeks Gifted
L'ammazzatina
The Household
The Handsome Devil
Nobody's Children
The Stranger and the Gunfighter
The Deadly Triangle
Door Into Darkness
Tony Arzenta
First Tango in Rome: Romance and Alchemy
Love and Death on the Edge of a Razor
Beautiful, Rich, Slight Physical Defect, Seeks Soulmate
Mark of the Devil Part II
The Godfather's Friend
Love and Death in the Garden of the Gods
Go Away! Trinity Has Arrived in Eldorado
Sentence of God
The Long Arm of the Godfather
The Red Headed Corpse
His Name Was Pot, but They Called Him Allegria
The Devil's Nightmare
The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave
Human Cobras
The House of Mature Apples
...Excuse Me, Do You Pay Taxes?
Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin
Stagecoach of the Condemned
With What Love, With How Much Love
So Sweet... So Perverse
A Man for Emmanuelle
The Magnificent Tony Carrera
Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
Summit
Shoot, Gringo... Shoot!
Hell in Normandy
Seven Times Seven
Kill, Panther, Kill!
Shotgun
Halleluja for Django
Target Frankie
Tom Dollar
L'uomo dal pugno d'oro
Fistful of Diamonds
$1,000 on the Black
A Million Dollars for 7 Murders
Target Goldseven
Django Shoots First
Kill, Baby... Kill!
The Third Eye
Spies Kill Silently
Degueyo
Special Code: Assignment Lost Formula
Lady Morgan's Vengeance
Espionage in Lisbon
Operation Atlantis
Colorado Charlie
Mission Bloody Mary
The Flying Saucer