Sylvia Lopez (November 10, 1933 – November 20, 1959) was a French model and actress.

Career as a model

Born Tatjana Bernt, she was raised in Paris, where she began a career in modelling. Eventually she modeled for couturier

Jacques Fath Jacques Fath (6 September 1912 in Maisons-Laffitte, France – 13 November 1954 in Paris, France) was a French fashion designer who was considered one of the three dominant influences on postwar haute couture, the others being Christian Dior and ...

, the first French fashion designer to export his creations to the United States. Appearing under the name "Sylvia Sinclair", Bernt earned enough exposure to attract the attention of film producers.

Personal life

In November 1956 she became the second wife of the composer Francis Lopez.

Career in acting

Lopez made her first of two

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films following which she appeared in several Italian swashbucklers with American stars such as

Steve Reeves Stephen Lester "Steve" Reeves (January 21, 1926 – May 1, 2000) was an American professional bodybuilder, actor, and philanthropist. He was famous in the mid-1950s as a movie star in Italian-made sword-and-sandal films, playing the protagon ...

and

Lex Barker Alexander Crichlow Barker Jr. (May 8, 1919 – May 11, 1973), known as Lex Barker, was an American actor. He was known for playing Tarzan for RKO Pictures between 1949 and 1953, and portraying leading characters from Karl May's novels, notably as ...

that were commercially successful and for which she received favorable reviews.

Early death

Diagnosed with

leukemia Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia and pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or ' ...

, Lopez died a few months after she withdrew while working on the set of a film '' Voulez-vous danser avec moi?'' (which was posthumously released a month later) with

Brigitte Bardot Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot ( ; ; born 28 September 1934), often referred to by her initials B.B., is a former French actress, singer and model. Famous for portraying sexually emancipated characters with hedonistic lifestyles, she was one of the ...

. Sylvia Lopez is interred in the

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in Paris. 5 years later a song called

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was written by Cécile Caulier and first sung by

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, as a single from her third album of the same name.

Filmography

References

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* * French film actresses 1933 births 1959 deaths Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery 20th-century French actresses {{france-film-actor-stub