Sabrina Ferilli

Sabrina Ferilli is far from a shrinking violet, once giving millions of TV viewers and local spectators a very provocative and impromptu striptease at an AS Roma game in Italy's Serie A football league.

It's all about the football in Italy.

In actual fact, Sabrina is a massive fan of the Roma football club, being a Roman herself, and indeed sat on the board of AS Roma's aptly named Fans Council.

But let's first look at where it all started for the much-loved Italian luminary and actor. Born on June 28, 1964, in Rome (Italy), Sabrina had always been fond of acting, and held theatre in high regard.

Though her father was a Communist Party member and her mother a homemaker, Sabrina had far more artistic aspirations, rewarded in 1991 in the critically acclaimed film, Americano Rosso (Red American).

Sabrina's professional acting career has spanned almost two decades, and she's widely regarded as the Sophia Loren of her time and has a massive following in Italy.

Besides a plethora of European films, Sabrina has also worked on calendars, advertising campaigns and the odd modeling job - and it's not hard to see how she came across such work; the term sex-bomb is often used when referring to the glamorous Italian.

In 1986, Sabrina plied her trade in the local Italian drama circuit, the 'Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia'.

The following year she made her filmic debut in Rimini Rimini, followed by such Italian faves as the Ferrini-directed Caramelle da uno sconosciuto (Sweets from a Stranger), Il Volpone (The Big Fox) Nightclub, and Un Giorno di festa in 1991.

By this stage Sabrina Ferilli's star was well and truly on the rise, and her popularity in Italy was explosive. One of her next flicks was the aforementioned Americano Rosso, which exposed her to a wider European audience and brought her to the forefront of many influential producers.

In 1993, she starred in a film directed by Marco Ferreri, the same such man who worked with her on Americano Rosso. Diario di un Vizio (The Diary of a Maniac) was another smash hit for the Italian sex symbol, and was chosen as the "Critics Award" at the Berlin Film Festival that year.

Other films, such as Il Giudice Ragazzino (The Kid Judge) and La Bella Vita (The Good Life), were hugely popular as well, rewarding the thespian with yet more accolades.

By the mid-1990s, Sabrina's popularity wasn't showing any signs of waning, and in 1996 she was chosen to co-host the Internationally broadcasted Sanremo Song Festival, which is arguably one of Italy's most-loved events, elevating the gorgeous actor to even greater heights in her celebrity-hungry home country.

She also holds the record for the most popular Italian Max calendar, which she featured in during 2001, and which sold more than 1 million copies - testament to her incredible popularity.

The highest sold Italian Max calendar is the Sabrini Ferilli edition of 2001, which sold over one million copies.

Today, Sabrina Ferilli lives a fairly private (for Italian standards) life in Italy, with her feline and canine pets and you can bet your first born that she'll be appearing in quality European films for quite some time, as she truly is an exceptionally talented woman.

Sexy Sabrina Ferilli