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Brigitte Nielsen
Age: 46
Height: 6' 1"
Birth Place: Rødovre, Denmark
Born: Jul. 15th, 1963
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BIOGRAPHY: Brigitte Nielsen was born Gitte Nielsen in Rødovre, Denmark, on July 15, 1963. In 1979 she moved to France, then Italy, where she began her modeling career. In 1984 Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis (I) hired her for the lead in Red Sonja (1985) with Arnold Schwarzenegger. The following year she met Sylvester Stallone and, in December 1985, married him. Meanwhile, she shot three other films: Rocky IV (1985), Cobra (1986) and Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), directed by Tony Scott (I), with Eddie Murphy (I), Paul Reiser and Chris Rock (I). In July 1987 Nielsen and Stallone divorced, and she recorded an LP called "Everybody Tells a Story" and sang "Body Next to Body" with Falco (I). In the 1990s she made quite a few films, including 976-Evil II (1992), Fantaghirò 2 (1992) (TV) and its sequels, The Double 0 Kid (1992) (V), Chained Heat II (1993), Galaxis (1995) with Sam Raimi, Compelling Evidence (1995), She's Too Tall (1998) with Corey Feldman and George Hamilton (I), and Doomsdayer (2000). In recent years she has become interested in the music world, doing a duet with drag-queen RuPaul (I), "You're No Lady" (2002). She has four children: Julian (b. 1984), Killian (b. 1989), Douglas (b. 1993) and Raoul Jr. (b. 1995). She divides her residences between Italy and the US.
TRIVIA:
- She remains good friends with 'Flavor Flav' (qv).
- Was engaged to New York Jets defensive end 'Mark Gastineau' (qv) from January 1988 to April 1990.
- Brother Jan was born in 1965.
- Swam for many years when she was young.
- During the Summer of 2008 she underwent six plastic surgeries, a facelift, eyelift, liposuction, breast lift and new teeth on live TV for her German reality show: "Aus alt mach neu - Brigitte Nielsen in der Promi-Beauty-Klinik" (2008)_qv.
- 'Ivana Trump' (qv) was her maid of honor at her second marriage to Mattia Dessi.
- Her third husband, the photographer/director Sebastian Copeland is 'Orlando Bloom' (qv)'s cousin.
- Married Mattia Dessi for a second time on the Mediterranean island of Malta.
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