Claudia Koll (born Claudia Maria Rosaria Colacione; 17 May 1965) is an Italian actress.

Biography

Claudia Koll was born in

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and

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parentage. Koll made her debut as a cinema actress in 1989, but achieved fame for her part in the erotic movie ''

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'' (''All Ladies Do It'', 1992), directed by

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. Subsequently she has worked mostly for theater and television. She reached her widest audience in the popular television series ''Linda e il brigadiere'' (''Linda and the Brigadier'', 1997-2000) with

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. She co-hosted the 1995 edition of the

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. She had a Catholic upbringing, but when she left home to become an actress, she also left the Church. As she said in her

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, she began to live as she liked, doing whatever she wanted, in a spirit of rebellion against all authority. She lived this transgressive life, she said, for many years, thinking it was true liberty, but its actual effect on her was to leave her psychologically vulnerable and without protection. One day in 2000, during a session of vaguely

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, vaguely "

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"-style meditation such as what many people in show business, she said, make use of in order to relax and be able to concentrate on their work, she found herself, without warning, overcome by a terrifying sense of being in the presence of evil and in mortal danger. In her fear she began to recite the

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and felt the threat recede. According to the

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Father Francesco Bamonte, "

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...and other such New Age practices that stress 'out of body' experiences" can potentially open the door to

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ic attacks. Subsequently Claudia Koll became a devout Roman Catholic. She is involved in several humanitarian activities and has travelled all over Italy to give testimony of her conversion and invite young people to return to prayer and faith in God. In 2006 she also gave a moving testimony at a healing service in

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, where she also returned in 2016 on an invitation from the Magnificat group to speak at St Catherine’s Church in

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. Koll has

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; in fact, she was an honorary president of the Italian Coeliac Association.

Filmography

*''Orlando sei'' (1989) *''

All Ladies Do It ''All Ladies Do It'' ( it, Così fan tutte ) is a 1992 Italian sex comedy film directed by Tinto Brass and starring Claudia Koll. It is loosely based on Mozart/ da Ponte opera '' Così fan tutte''. Synopsis Diana (Claudia Koll) is a Roman wif ...

'' (1992) *''Benito - The Rise and Fall of Mussolini'' (1993) *''

Miracolo italiano ''Miracolo italiano'' (also known as ''An Italian Miracle'') is a 1994 Italian anthology comedy film directed by Enrico Oldoini. Cast * Renato Pozzetto: Fermo Pulciani/ Passenger of the Ferry * Nino Frassica: Toti/ Ernesto * Ezio Greggio: Ma ...

'' (1994) *''Uomini sull'orlo di una crisi di nervi'' (1995) *'' Cucciolo'' (1998) * ''

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'' (2003)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Koll, Claudia 1965 births Converts to Roman Catholicism from atheism or agnosticism Italian Roman Catholics Italian people of Romanian descent Living people Actresses from Rome