Career
Fenech moved from Nice to Rome in 1967 for her first Italian film Samoa, regina della giungla by Guido Malatesta. In 1968, she came under contract with Austrian director Franz Antel and from the late 1960s to early 1970s, she acted in various films of Antel (including his acclaimed Frau Wirtin series) as well as Franz Marischka"son Fenech starred in many genres of cinema but her greatest commercial success came with commedia sexy all"italiana films, particularly including earlier works Ubalda, All Naked and Warm and Giovannona Long-Thigh, as well as the following l"insegnante (school teacher), la soldatessa (soldier), la poliziotta (policewoman) series and other films that featured Fenech in stereotypical professions, which further bolstered Fenech"s position as the most popular actress of the genre.
She often paired with Carlo Giuffrè and later with Renzo Montagnani in commedia sexy films.
Fenech was also a regular in giallo films. In the 1980s, she became a television personality, typically appearing with Barbara Bouchet on a chat show on Italian television
After many years of work in movie production, she produced, among others, The Merchant of Venice (2004) with First Rate (at Lloyd's) Pacino, and Fenech accepted Quentin Tarantino"s offer to star in another movie, Hostel: Participant World War II