Marina Hedman
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Marina Hedman Bellis, also known as Marina Frajese and Marina Lotar (September 29 1944 in Göteborg, Sweden) is a Swedish former porn star and model. Hedman used to live in Sweden where she worked as a model and stewardess. In the late 1960s she married RAI reporter Paolo Frajese and settled in Italy. The couple had a son named Paolo Attilio and a daughter named Liselotte.
Hedman saw her marriage with Frajese as an obstacle to her future aspirations and they divorced in 1975. The following year she made her film debut with a small uncredited role in Lucio Fulci's sex comedy La pretora (My Sister In Law), starring Edwige Fenech. Later in 1976, she was discovered by Joe d'Amato and played a minor role in his Emanuelle in America (appearing in her first hardcore scene). In 1978, she won the Lady Europa contest and started to grow her publicity through her appearance in RAI show Carosello and posing for Playboy magazine. In 1979, she played a major role in Immagini di un convento ("Dreams in a Convent"), again by d'Amato (who she would continue to work with on many films), an indelicate adaptation of La Religieuse.
Throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, Hedman would juggle between supporting roles in serious films such as Primo Amore (1978) for Dino Risi and La città delle donne (City of Women) (1980) for Federico Fellini; and leading roles in a pornographic films. With La zia svedese (The Swedish Aunt) (1980) by Mario Siciliano, she had the opportunity to fully display her sexual potential with the role of a beautiful but mature aunt who seduces her nephew. In the 1980s, with the attraction of the flourishing industry, she decided to appear only in pornographic films. Standing 176 cm tall and with her blue eyes, she became a favourite of porn viewers. 1984 and 1985 were the most prolific years for her, playing in films named after her, such as Marina e la sua bestia (Marina and her beast). She also played opposite John Holmes in his final film, The Devil in Mr. Holmes (1987), and took part in pornographic films depicting actual or simulated bestiality such as L'Amore e la bestia (The love and the beast) by Roberto Bianchi Montero (1986). She was also renowned for her eager participation in double penetration and facial scenes, at a time when these sexual acts were far from being mainstream pornographic conventions.
She appeared in her last film in 1991 and eventually retired from public life.
Filmography (non-pornographic roles)
- La pretora (a.k.a. My Sister In Law, 1976)
- Il ginecologo della mutua (a.k.a. Ladies' Doctor, 1977)
- Un brivido di piacere (1978)
- Follie di notte (a.k.a. Crazy Nights, 1978)
- Le notti porno nel mondo n. 2 (a.k.a. Scandinavian Erotica, 1978)
- Primo amore (a.k.a. First Love, 1978)
- Come perdere una moglie...e trovare un'amante (a.k.a. How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover, 1978)
- La bestia nello spazio (a.k.a. The Beast in Space, 1978)
- Le mani di una donna sola (1979)
- Gegè Bellavita (1979)
- Il mondo porno di due sorelle (a.k.a. Emanuelle and Joanna, 1979)
- Libidine (1979)
- Quello strano desiderio (1979)
- La città delle donne (a.k.a. City of Women, 1980)
- Febbre a 40! (a.k.a. Happy Birthday, Harry, 1980)
- Una moglie, due amici, quattro amanti (a.k.a. Do It With the Pamango, 1980)
- Delitto a Porta Romana (a.k.a. Crime at Porta Romana, 1980)
- La compagna di viaggio (1980)
- Delitto sull'autostrada (1982)
- Fantozzi subisce ancora (1983)
- Delitto al Blue Gay (a.k.a. Cop in Drag, 1984)
- Appuntamento in nero (a.k.a. Scandal in Black, 1990)
Filmography (pornographic roles)
- Emanuelle in America (1976)
- Albergo a ore (1981)
- Apprendiste viziose (1985)
- Adolescenti vogliose (1986)
- Un bestiale triangolo erotico (1987)
- Finalmente Marina (1991)
