
Acting
Also Known As: Sara Bey, Sara Bay, The Italian Sphinx
Birth Date
June 19, 1939
(87 years old)
Place of Birth
Forlì, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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She won a beauty pageant and attended il Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (The Center for Experimental Cinematography). In 1956, she received an offer to go to Hollywood and attend the Actor's Studio but didn't take the offer for undisclosed reasons. She began her film career at the age of 15 with a role in the film I pinguini ci guardano (1956) (The Penguins Watch Us) in which the animals at the zoo watched the humans around them and cultivated some very interesting thoughts. Many sources, however, list her first film as Mogli pericolose (1958). She is uncredited in this comedy which was directed by Luigi Comencini. Neri was also much in demand for erotic films. She played Zoe, in Jesús Franco's 99 Women (1969), a movie about women in prison who must turn to each other for comfort while dealing with a sadistic warden. In 1971 she was Eleanor Stuart, Farley Granger's 'wife' in Amuck (1972).






Paola
1969

Cornelia
1974

La Polak
1965

Harem Girl (uncredited)
1961

Florette
1969

La Polak
1964

Alecsa
1971

Eleanora Stuart
1972

Seductive Woman (uncredited)
1965

Cutitta's Wife
1973

Zoe
1969

Tania Frankenstein
1971

Helena
1961

Yaka
1967

Encarnation
1968

Anne Palmieri
1971

Lizzy
1967

Rosa
1963

Madonna Lisa
1972

Lisa
1969