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| Birth Name(s) : Brigitte Nielsen |
Date of Birth: July 15, 1963 |
| Status:
Married
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Partner:
Raoul Meyer |
| Profession:
Actor |
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Full Brigitte Nielsen Biography
Brigitte Nielsen was born in Helsingor, Denmark on 15 July 1963. In 1979 she moved to France and Italy where she began her modelling career. In 1984, the Italian producer Dino de Laurentiis contracted her for the film Red Sonja (1985) with Arnold Schwarzenegger. The following year she met Sylvester Stallone and in December 1985 she married him. Meanwhile she shot three other films: Rocky IV (1985), Cobra (1986) and Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) directed by Tony Scott and together with Eddie Murphy, Paul Reiser and Chris Rock. In July 1987 they divorced and Gitte recorded an LP called: "Everybody tells a story" and sang with Falco a song, "Body Next To Body".
In the 90s she acted in many films, such as, _ 976-EVIL 2: The Astral Factor (1991)_ , Fantaghirò II (1992) (TV) and its sequels, Double 0 Kid, The (1993), Chained Heat II (1993), Galaxis (1995) with Sam Raimi, _ Compelling Evidence (1995)_ , She's Too Tall (1998) with Corey Feldman and George Hamilton and the last, Doomsdayer (1999). In recent years she became interested in the music world, doing a duet with the drag-queen Rupaul, "You're no lady" (2002). She has 4 children: Julian (b. 1984), Killian (b. 1989), Douglas (b. 1993) and Raoul Jr. (b. 1995). She lives in Lugano, Switzerland). |
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Nielsen was born in Rødovre, Denmark to Svend Nielsen, an engineer, and Hanne, a librarian. She has a brother, Jan.
Nielsen began her acting career in 1985, in Red Sonja. Nielsen started a short-lived music career shortly after her divorce from Stallone in 1987. She released her debut album Every Body Tells A Story in that year and recorded a duet with Austrian pop star Falco called "Body Next To Body" which went to #22 in Germany and #6 in Austria. She released a follow-up album, "I'm the one..nobody else", in 1992, although it was also not a success. In 1999 she made a musical comeback by recording the dance track "No more turning back" under the pseudonym of Gitta and reached #1 in Spain and topped several other European dance charts. Other tracks recorded as Gitta were 2000's "Tic Toc" and 2001's "You're No Lady", a collaboration with Ru Paul.
She has worked for Italian television hosting hit shows such as the 1992 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival; Retromarsh (1995-1997), and ..la sai l'ultima? (1999); starring in the TV movie Fantaghirò and its sequels (1992-1996); and guest starring in the Rai Tre's soap opera Un posto al sole (2000). She appeared on the first season of the Italian version of The Mole (2004) and on the third season of the VH1 reality show The Surreal Life (2004). In the show, Nielsen was seen flirting with Public Enemy rapper Flavor Flav and it was confirmed that they were a couple, even though she was still legally married to Raoul Meyer. The show was such a success that VH1 produced a spin-off reality show called Strange Love, which began airing on the channel on January 9, 2005. Nielsen also appeared with Flav on VH1's Big in '04 Awards. In 2006, she guest-starred on Flav's other reality show, Flavor of Love.
In 2004 she appeared in the Danish Big Brother VIP, one year later in January 2005 she was also a contestant in the British equivalent Celebrity Big Brother along with her former mother-in-law Jackie Stallone and the writer Germaine Greer. In 2006 she appeared in another reality TV series, VH1's The Surreal Life: Fame Game. In March 2007, she starred in a new British documentary called Killing Brigitte Nielsen aired on Sky Travel.
According to some rumors she will be one of the contestants of a new VH1 reality series called Celebrity Rehab.
Nielsen's first marriage was to Danish musician Kasper Winding, with whom she had a son. She was then married to actor Sylvester Stallone, her co-star in Cobra. She later became engaged (but not married) to American football player Mark Gastineau, with whom she had a son. She then married Swiss racecar driver Raoul Meyer from December 17, 1993 to 2005, and they had two sons: Douglas Aaron and Raoul Jr. Ayrton (named after her friend Ayrton Senna). It is often claimed that she married photographer/director Sebastian Copeland, but she says that it was not a legal marriage.
Nielsen married for the fifth time in March 2005 to bartender Mattia Dessi, who appeared briefly on Strange Love. The marriage was not official, because her divorce from her previous husband was not finalized. On July 8, 2006 they married legally, following her divorce from her previous husband. Her maid of honor was Ivana Trump.
On July 9, 2007, Nielsen checked herself into the Cri-Help rehabilitation facility in North Hollywood following what some reports claim was a family intervention. . Her manager, Steven Tempone, confirmed on July 19, 2007 that she had checked into rehab and told the Associated Press "All I know is it's something she did of her own free will and we're proud of her and wish her very well... When she gets out we'll have a big birthday party, and Coca-Cola only."
As of July 22, 2007, Nielsen was out of rehab to attend the Comedy Central roast of Flavor Flav. She told People that she felt "like a new-born person... I made a choice about a new life. It's not been easy but it was definitely time." While People does not report the date that Nielsen checked into rehab, they state that she "had been in treatment for a few weeks." . |
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