Lara Wendel

Lara Wendel (born March 29, 1965 in Munich ; actually Daniela Rachele Barnes ) is an actress and photo model of American-German descent, who mainly worked in Italy.

Life and activity

Lara Wendel is the daughter of the US actor Walter Barnes , who was also temporarily active in Germany, and the German Britta Barnes née Wendel, who, like Lara Wendel's brother Michael Barnes, played a few small roles in Italian films in the early 1970s.

As a three-year-old Lara Wendel came from Germany to Italy, where she appeared in public as a photo model at the age of five. From 1972 to 1974 she worked under her real name Daniela Rachele Barnes or Daniela Barnes in several Italian films as a child actress. In a frenzy of blood , she performed with her mother and brother. She first used the stage name Lara Wendel (after a combination of the last two letters of her first name Daniela, the first two letters of her second name Rachele and the maiden name of her mother) in the Italian-German coproduction Play We Love (alternative title : Maladolescenza ). Here she caused a special stir because she - at the time of shooting only eleven years old - was seen in revealing nude and soft sex scenes with Martin Loeb . In the uncut version, this controversial film has been legally banned in Germany since 2006.

She built her image as a child woman (including nude appearances) in the following years with films like Mimi - A Bourgeois Drama , Ernesto (in which she played the boy Ilio and his twin sister Rachele), Desideria and September Morning . In 1985 she was in the second season of the hit television series Alone Against the Mafia , later she also appeared in horror films such as Killing Birds and Ghosthouse . Perhaps its most significant lead role she had in 1987 in Intervista by Federico Fellini .

In addition to her work as a film actress, Lara Wendel was also known as a photo model, especially with erotic recordings . She can be seen in the cover photo of the February 1985 edition of Italian Playboy , the German edition of Playboy published a photo report on her in September 1985, and the US edition in November 1992. In 1992 Lara Wendel withdrew from the public.

Films and television films

• 1972: Mio caro assassino
• 1972: The Mafia Boss - They kill like jackals ( La mala ordina )
• 1973: Bloodlust ( Senza ragione )
• 1974: Il profumo della signora in nero
• 1977: Let's Play Love ( Maladolescenza )
• 1978: La petite fille en velours bleu
• 1979: Ring of Darkness ( Un'ombra nell'ombra )
• 1979: Mimi - A bourgeois drama ( Un dramma borghese )
• 1979: Ernesto
• 1980: Desideria ( Desideria - La vita interiore )
• 1981: September Morning ( Il falco e la colomba )
• 1982: Identifying a woman ( Identificazione di una donna )
• 1982: Tenebrae ( Tenebre )
• 1983: The brisk Teens of Rimini ( Vai alla grande )
• 1984: I ragazzi di celluloide 2 ( mini series )
• 1984: Fatto su misura
• 1985: Alone against the Mafia 2 (miniseries, episode: La piovra 2 )
• 1985: A me mi piace
• 1986: Midnight Killer ( Morirai a mezzanotte )
• 1987: Killing Birds - Raptors ( Killing birds - uccelli assassini )
• 1987: Un'australiana a Roma (TV movie)
• 1987: Fellini's Intervista ( Intervista )
• 1988: The Red Monks ( I frati rossi )
• 1988: Ghosthouse ( La casa 3 )
• 1989: College (TV movie)
• 1992: Men and Lovers ( La villa del venerdì )

Web links

• Lara Wendel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Films with Lara Wendel. In: Two thousand and one lexicon of international film