Beryl Cunningham

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Beryl Cunningham
Cunningham in Il dio serpente (1975)
Born(1946-08-08)8 August 1946
Montego Bay, Jamaica
Died11 December 2020 (aged 74)
Borbona, Rieti, Italy
Occupations
  • Actress
  • model
  • singer

Beryl Cunningham (8 August 1946 – 11 December 2020)[1] was a Jamaican actress and model, mainly active in Italian cinema.

Life and career

Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, the daughter of a university professor, after the high school graduation Cunningham moved to London to attend the university and to pursue a modeling career.[2]

Cunningham's career, after some secondary roles, was launched in the late 60's by the erotic drama

Brutti, sporchi e cattivi, but failed to capitalize on her early success and retired from acting in the early 1980s.[4]

During her career Cunningham was also a presenter, hosting among others the 1971 edition of

Jula de Palma's hit "Tua". In 1979 she was a regular guest of the television program Playboy di mezzanotte.[5]

In 1981, she also published a book of Jamaican aphrodisiac recipes, La cucina giamaicana, published by Crochet Edizioni.[6]

References

  1. ^ E' morta Beryl Cunningham, la musa del Dio Serpente (in Italian)
  2. ^ Lionello Fabbri, "Essere negra", Ciao 2001 n° 12, 16 April 1969, pp. 66–68.
  3. ^ "Erna Schürer: la donna volitiva". Nocturno Dossier: Le sorelle di Venere 2. June 2007.
  4. ^ a b c Enrico Lancia, Fabio Melelli. Le straniere del nostro cinema. Gremese Editore, 2005.
  5. ^ "Playboy di periferia", La Stampa, 2 July 1979, p. 3.
  6. ^ "Beryl: ricette dai caraibi", La Stampa, 19 January 1981, p. 32.

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