Sybil Danning
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 Danning in April 2006 |
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| Born | Sybille Johanna Danninger May 24, 1952 Ried im Innkreis, Austria |
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| Other name(s) | Cybil Danning Sybille Danninger |
Sybil Danning (born May 24, 1952[citation needed]) is an Austrian actress known for her many roles in B-movies, science fiction films, and action movies.
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[edit] Early life
Danning was born in Ried im Innkreis, Austria as Sybille Johanna Danninger. Her father was an American of Dutch and German descent; her Austrian mother later married a U.S. Army Major who moved the family to the U.S.[1] Danning became an actress after leaving home around 1968 at the age of 16.
[edit] Career
By the 1980s, Danning was a sex symbol.[citation needed] She appeared in films including Malibu Express, Battle Beyond the Stars, Reform School Girls, Chained Heat, They're Playing with Fire, and in an episode of the 1980s TV series V. Danning had her own video line in the 1980s called Adventure Video through USA Home Video. Danning is the host of her own collection of 26 action adventure movies that bear the title Sybil Danning's Adventure Video for USA Home Video/Carolco/Artisan.[citation needed] In 1989, Danning re-teamed with the producers of Bluebeard, The Three Musketeers, The Four Musketeers, and The Prince and the Pauper to play a succubus on the TV series Superboy. Danning would appear at the beginning, spout one-liners, introduce the episode and then return at the end to wrap it up.
She was featured in a nude pictorial in the August 1983 issue of Playboy, including the cover.[citation needed] While she still continued to make appearances at science fiction conventions, her role in 2007's Jump! with Patrick Swayze was her first on screen appearance since 1989.[citation needed] In 2007, she also appeared in the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez film Grindhouse in the Rob Zombie-directed segment "Werewolf Women of the S.S." and in Rob Zombie's Halloween.
As of 2000[update], Danning has been serving as President and Chief Operating Officer for Adventuress Productions, which she co-founded in 1989 with S. C. Dacy and Robert P. Palazzo.[citation needed]
