Teresa Ann Savoy
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| Teresa Ann Savoy | |
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| Born | July 18, 1955 London, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
Teresa Ann Savoy, FRSA (b. 18 July 1955 in London) is a British-born actress. She has appeared in a number of Italian films.
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Savoy was 18 years old when she appeared in the Italian adult magazine Playmen (October 1973), using an alias of "Terry". "Terry", who fled from home at 16, was living in a hippie community in Sicily and soon became an attention of the press.
In 1974, her acting career began when film director Alberto Lattuada (who has discovered Federico Fellini and Silvana Mangano) gave her her first role in the film Le farò da padre aka La bambina, playing a mentally retarded girl named Clotilde.
Her next film was Private Vices, Public Virtues (Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù) (1975) directed by the Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó. The film told the story of the Crown Prince Rudolf, son of the Austrian-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph and his rebellion against his father. Teresa played the baroness Mary Vetsera, Rudolf's lover, but in Jancso's vision, she appears as a hermaphrodite.
In 1975 Savoy met Tinto Brass and they worked together in the successful film Salon Kitty (1976). In the film she played a young BDM girl (League of German Maidens, a female nazi youth organization) who becomes a spy that poses as a prostitute for the SS Nazi paramilitary organization.
In 1976, Brass was involved in the film Caligula, produced by Bob Guccione, the owner of Penthouse magazine. Maria Schneider, who was to have played the role of Drusilla, Caligula's beloved sister, walked out of the project when she decided she didn't want to do the nude scenes. She was replaced in the role by Savoy.
Savoy made a return to cinema in 1981 with La disubbidienza by Aldo Lado, where she played Edith, an attractive Jewish governess. The film covered events under the reign of the Republic of Salò. She left acting in 1986, although, in 2000, she had a brief bit part in the first digital Italian film La fabbrica del vapore.
She received the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1989.
Savoy now resides in Milan, and is married with two children.
