Silva Coshina is a famous Italian movie actress. She was born in 1933, and died in 1994. Films featuring Silva are popular now. This is not only Italian, but also shot in Hollywood.
Biography
According to the biography, Silva Koshina was born in the city of Zagreb, Croatia, 08/22/1933. The real name of the actress is Silva Koskinon. The girl's father was of Greek descent, and her mother was from Poland.
Silva moved to Italy with her sister in the early fifties. In the city of Naples, there was a university in which Koshina studied at the Faculty of Physics.
The girl has always been very active. At the age of 21, Silva won a prize while participating in cycling. She also regularly participated and won in various beauty contests.
Height 174 cm, as well as a good figure contributed to the fact that the girl began to work as a model in Naples.
Already at 22, Silva firmly decides to become an actress and leaves to conquer Rome.
First roles
The actress performed her first role in the movie in 1955. It was a small role in the comedy film "People and Corporals."
“People and Corporals” - film directed by Camillo Mastrochinka. The script for the film was written by Toto together with Gino Mangini. Toto played the main role in this film.
In 1956, Silva played in two more films, “The Engineer” and “Mikhail Strogov.”
On the wave of popularity
In 1957, Silva Koshina in the photo in newspapers and magazines did not surprise anyone. The girl often played attractive young aristocrats, fatal heroines. Popular paintings with her participation are the melodrama “The Feats of Hercules”, the comedies “Guendalina”, “Impossible Isabelle”, “Naive with Forty Children”.
The filmography of Silva Koshina was quickly replenished with new films. In 1958, the actress played immediately in nine films. Among them is the dramatic film “Battle for Jerusalem”, in which the actress played the role of Clorinda, the comedy films “Toto in Paris” and “Toto on the Moon”, in which Silva appeared in the role of Juliet, the picture in the fantasy genre “The exploits of Hercules: Hercules and the Queen Lydia."
For the next ten years, Silva was rightfully considered the most popular actress in Italy. Films with Silva Koshina in the title role were directed by the directors Steno, Victor Turzhansky, Luigi Comencini, Randall Wallace and others.
One after another, the films “Luxurious Women”, “The Battle for Rome”, “Crime”, “Iron Mask”, “Siege of Syracuse” are released.
Koshina took part in the filming of such famous films as “Play in the Box”, “Ruthless Men”, “Murder in Monte Carlo”, “Me, Me, Me and Others”, “Juliet and Spirits”, “The Shortest Day”, “Hot for June.”
The film "Juliet and Perfume" directed by Federico Fellini was released in 1965. Another name for this fantastic, dramatic comedy film is "Juliet, Possessed by Spirits." The film was awarded the Golden Globe Award in 1966 in the nomination "Best Foreign Film" and was nominated for an Oscar in two nominations.
Hollywood
Silva set off to conquer Hollywood in 1967. Here she lived and worked only two years. Work in America did not bring the actress such moral satisfaction as in Italy. In America, Koshina was not as popular as before, directors did not line up with job offers for her. In 1969, the actress decided to return to Italy.
Of the works of this period, the roles of the actress in the films “Battle for Rome” directed by Robert Siodmak, Sergio Nikolaescu and Andrew Morton based on the novel by Felix Dan, “Ruthless Men”, directed by Ralph Thomas, “A Great Way to Die”, directed by David Lowell Rich, in which Silva starred with Kirk Douglas.
After return
In the next five years after the actress returned to her homeland, she starred in such films as “Dracula in the province”, “Seven shawls made of yellow silk”, “Absolute naturalness”, “Revelations of the sexual maniac of the criminal police”, “Devil’s house”, “Justine marquise."
Silva was always distinguished by her courage, she was not afraid of frank scenes in the movies. At the age of 36, Koshina starred as a model in the erotic magazine Playboy.
With age, the popularity of the actress faded. More and more often she got the roles of beauties in age, elderly aristocrats. In the period from 1977 to 1994, the woman played only thirteen roles. These were roles in the dramatic films Ricky and Barabba, Cinderella 80 and Golden Hands, in the comedy film Ace, in the musical film Odyssey.
Personal life
Silva was married only once to actor and producer Raimondo Castelli. They began dating in 1960. The couple lived for eight years in a civil marriage. In 1967, Coshina and Castelli officially married in Mexico. Their marriage, which was not officially recognized in Italy, lasted only a few years.
