Rebecca Coco Edogamhe (born 5 September 2001), also known as Coco Rebecca Edogamhe, is an Italian actress best known as the star of the streaming

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series '' Summertime''.

Life and career

Edogamhe was born in

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and raised outside of

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to a

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father and an

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Italian mother. She has one younger sister. She frequently traveled to visit family in

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and

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growing up. Although Edogamhe never took acting classes, she began auditioning for film and television roles as a high school student. She booked her first professional acting job as the lead in the Italian

series '' Summertime'', a

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drama series set over summer break in a city on the

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. The show debuted in April 2020, shortly before she graduated high school, and was received positively. The second season of ''Summertime'' was released in 2021. She has modeled in editorial shoots for

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and

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Filmography

References

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* 2001 births Living people 21st-century Italian actresses Actors from Bologna 21st-century Nigerian actresses Italian people of Nigerian descent People from Lecce {{Italy-actor-stub