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Sybil Danning

Sybil Danning (born Sybille Johanna Danninger; 1950) is an Austrian–American retired actress, model, and film producer, best known for her onscreen appearances in B-movies during the 1970s and 80s.

Danning was born in Wels, Austria. Her father was an American military man who returned to the United States, resulting in her growing up primarily in Eatontown, New Jersey, and Sacramento, California. After she finished school, she went to Europe. While in Salzburg, she worked as a nurse and studied cosmetology. She then started working in a clothing store in Salzburg, and tried modeling work, from which she was invited to take up acting roles.

Danning started her onscreen career in soft-core erotic films such as Rolf Thiele's German-Italian production Komm nur, mein liebstes Vögelein (Come on, my dearest little bird). In 1971, she was featured in the 1971 "classic sexploitation" movie titled Housewives Report, from which she went on to play in Edward Dmytryk's 1972 thriller Bluebeard alongside Richard Burton and Raquel Welch, and, the same year, to appear in the giallo The Red Queen Kills Seven Times.

After a string of European sexploitation movies, such as Naughty Nymphs and Albino, she appeared in minor roles such as Eugenie, the maid to Comtesse de la Faye, in The Three Musketeers (1973). She also ventured into spaghetti westerns, such as God's Gun (1976), starring Lee Van Cleef. She was a Valkyrie warrior in the 1980 space opera Battle Beyond the Stars.

In 1983, she had a "domineering shower scene" with Linda Blair in 1983's Chained Heat, a women-in-prison film. She appeared nude in a ten-page Playboy pictorial.

In 1984, she starred in the erotic thriller They're Playing with Fire. She played a femme fatale opposite Robert Vaughn in the episode "Face to Face" of The Hitchhiker television series.[better source needed]

Her popularity among the B-movie audience led to talk about work in James Bond films and Terminator sequels, which resulted in nothing. She announced her retirement from acting in 1986.

In 2003, Danning was invited by Kevin Clement of the Chiller Theatre in New Jersey to meet with fans; in 2004 the theater screened the documentary UnConventional about the event.

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