Brigitte Nielsen is a Danish actress, model, and singer.
35 Facts About Brigitte Nielsen
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Brigitte Nielsen began her career modelling for Greg Gorman and Helmut Newton.
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Brigitte Nielsen subsequently acted in the 1985 films Red Sonja and Rocky IV, later returning to the Rocky series in Creed II.
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Brigitte Nielsen played a villain in Beverly Hills Cop II and starred as the Black Witch in the 1990s Italian film series Fantaghiro.
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Brigitte Nielsen later built a career starring in B-movies, hosting TV shows, and appearing on reality shows.
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Brigitte Nielsen is the daughter of Hanne, a librarian, and Svend Nielsen, an engineer, and the ex-sister-in-law of film director Nicolas Winding Refn.
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Brigitte Nielsen posed for Playboy magazine multiple times, garnering the cover in December 1987.
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Brigitte Nielsen's exploits were well-covered in the entertainment media in the 1980s, and the world press started referring to her as an "Amazon" because of her tall stature.
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In 1985, Brigitte Nielsen began her acting career in the fantasy film Red Sonja alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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In 1987, Brigitte Nielsen played Karla Fry in the film Beverly Hills Cop II, alongside Eddie Murphy.
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Brigitte Nielsen posed for photos dressed both as Jennifer Walters and her alter-ego, She-Hulk, before the film was cancelled.
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Brigitte Nielsen starred as the villainess of the Italian TV fantasy film Fantaghiro 2 and its sequels ; her character was supposed to be killed off in the first of these films, but was then brought back due to popular demand.
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In 2011, Brigitte Nielsen voice acted for the Danish animated comedy film Ronal the Barbarian.
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Brigitte Nielsen released her debut album Every Body Tells a Story in that year and recorded a duet with Austrian pop star Falco, Giorgio Moroder's penned "Body Next to Body" which went to No 22 in Germany and No 6 in Austria.
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Brigitte Nielsen released a few songs under the pseudonym "Gitta" because producers wanted to see if she could succeed as a singer without her name on the cover.
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Brigitte Nielsen appeared in Michael Jackson's "Liberian Girl" music video in 1989 and in metal band Korn's music video for the single "Make Me Bad" in 2000.
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Brigitte Nielsen guest starred for an episode of the German TV series Stuttgart Homicide, aired by ZDF on 28 March 2011, guest-hosted the British chat show Loose Women on 7 December 2010.
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Brigitte Nielsen appeared on the first season of the Italian production of The Mole and on the third season of the VH1 reality show The Surreal Life.
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Brigitte Nielsen appeared with Flav on VH1's Big in '04 Awards.
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In 2003, Brigitte Nielsen appeared in the Danish Big Brother VIP.
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In 2007, she starred in a new British mockumentary Killing Brigitte Nielsen, which aired on Sky Travel.
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Brigitte Nielsen appeared in the first season of Celebrity Rehab with Dr Drew, which chronicled her struggle to overcome her alcoholism at the Pasadena Recovery Center in Pasadena, California.
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In 2009, Brigitte Nielsen appeared as a panel speaker to a new group of addicts at the Pasadena Recovery Center, anticipating the two-year mark of her sobriety that coming July.
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Brigitte Nielsen's appearance was aired in the third-season episode "Triggers", which aired in February 2010.
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In 2010, Brigitte Nielsen appeared as one of the celebrity contestants of TF1 reality show La Ferme Celebrites, the French version of the TV series The Farm.
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Brigitte Nielsen was eliminated after one week, mainly due to her lack of fluency in French and subsequent difficulties to interact with the other contestants.
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Brigitte Nielsen was one of the celebrity contestants of 2010's Let's Dance, the German version of Dancing with the Stars.
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In October 2012, Brigitte Nielsen was featured in the Danish version of Maestro broadcast on DR1 in which celebrities competed for the chance to conduct a classical orchestra.
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Besides her native Danish, Brigitte Nielsen is fluent in English, German and Italian, and has some understanding of French.
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Brigitte Nielsen has been married five times and has four sons and one daughter.
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Brigitte Nielsen became engaged to actor Sylvester Stallone during the production of Rocky IV.
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Brigitte Nielsen has two sons with her fourth husband Raoul Meyer, Raoul Meyer Jr.
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Brigitte Nielsen's husband Mattia Dessi was born on 1978 and lived with her in Italy as shown on Strange Love, which was filmed prior to their marriage.
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On July 9,2007, Brigitte Nielsen checked herself into the Cri-Help rehabilitation facility in North Hollywood following what some reports claim was a family intervention.
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In mid-2008, Brigitte Nielsen starred in the reality show Aus alt mach neu, broadcast by German TV station RTL.