She was born Scilla Gabellini, one of five siblings, in Rimini on the Adriatic coast. Scilla initially studied law at Oxford University, graduating with a doctorate. Her interest in pursuing a legal career waned quickly, however, since her next move was a return to Italy for acting classes at Rome's Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica. At the age of seventeen, the voluptuous, blue-eyed Scilla became a body double for Sophia Loren (to whom she bore more than a passing resemblance), notably in the classic Boy on a Dolphin (1957). Two years later, she underwent cosmetic surgery to look less like Sophia in order to forge her own screen image. In 1963, Scilla featured on the cover of several magazines, including Playboy, the Milanese publication Le Ore and Parade (at the time, the most widely read weekly in the U.S.). Though she went on to command leads in a number of films during the 60s, Scilla tended to be typecast in roles which emphasized her physical attributes, rather than her act...
Sodom and Gomorrah
1962
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
1959
The Shortest Day
1963
Three Faces of Sin
1961
Mill of the Stone Women
1960
Modesty Blaise
1966
Romulus and the Sabines
1961
Odissea
1968
I piaceri del sabato notte
1960
The Queen of the Pirates
1960
Two Colonels
1963
Colossus of the Arena
1962
Djurado
1966
The Revenge of the Gladiators
1964
Outlaws of Love
1963
Son of Cleopatra
1964
Arms of the Avenger
1963
The White Warrior
1959
Tua per la vita
1955
Seven Slaves Against the World
1964
Take Me As I Am
1960
Target for Killing
1966
Corpse for the Lady
1964
No Man's Land
1962
La salamandre d'or
1962
Tender Sharks
1967
Legs of Gold
1958
I ragazzi dei Parioli
1959
How to Seduce a Playboy?
1966
Bastard, Go and Kill
1971
The Festival Girls
1961
Una storia di notte
1964
Il terrore dei mantelli rossi
1963
Genitori in blue-jeans
1960
Gente felice
1957
Noi duri
1960
Village of Daughters
1962
Girls of the Night
1958
Mara
1961