Greta Scacchi

Memorable Sexy Scene:

She got the nickname "Scorchy Scacchi" not without any reason, in her prime she did a lot sex and nude scene. Unfortunately she rejected the role in Basic Instinct that should bring her into the spotlight. We have known that the role came to Sharon Stone, who has similar appearance like Scacchi.  

1. Watch her submissively enjoyed Harrison Ford attack here: Presumed Innocent

2. She got her fame in this movie: Heat and Dust

The only daughter (she has older twin brothers) of Luca Scacchi, an Italian painter, and his English dancer wife Pamela, Scacchi was born in Milan on Feb­ruary 18, 1960, but came to live in Haywards Heath, Sussex, after her parents divorced when she was four.

After studying at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where Miranda Richardson (of Blackadder fame) and Amanda Redman (of New Tricks) were her contemporaries, Scacchi’s big break came in 1983 with the Raj saga, Heat And Dust. Her nude scenes as the rebellious memsahib fuelled millions of male fantasies.

After Heat and Dust(1982), she played roles in Australian and English television. While playing in a modenised play byAnton Tsjechov in 1988, (directed byMargarethe von Trotta), she was discovered by Hollywood. Greta Scacchi became an internationally renowned film, theatre and television actress. She has worked extensively in Australia, America and Europe.

Her theatre credits include Easy Virtue (Chichester Festival Theatre), Simpa Tico and Miss Julie(Sydney Theatre Company), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Original Shakespeare Company), A Doll's House ( Festival of Partti), Uncle Vanya ( Vaudeville Theatre, London), Airbase (Oxford Playhouse and Arts Theatre), In Times Like These (Bristol Old Vic) and Cide With Rosie Phoenix Arts Theatre, Leicester) .

Greta's television credits include Michael Bogdanov's Macbeth,The Odyssey, Rasputinwith Ian McKellen andAlan Rickman ( and for which she won an Emmyfor Best Supporting Actress), Waterfront,Dr Fischer Of Genevawith Alan Bates andJames Mason, and The Ebony Tower with Laurence Oliver.

Subsequent films such as Presumed Innocent, in which Harrison Ford ravished her over a desk, Shattered (Tom Berenger was the lucky guy in that one) and especially White Mischief, in which she seduced Charles Dance in the sea by pulling her swimsuit down, only consolidated her status as Hollywood’s most desirable femme fatale. She became Scorchy Scacchi, a nickname that not only highlighted her willingness to get her kit off rather than her acting skills but also showed that people couldn’t even be bothered to get her name right: Scacchi rhymes with “tacky” not “catchy”.

She was known as the ambitious actress who prized personal happiness over professional success and effectively turned her back on a glittering film career to live almost reclusively in an English village; the sex symbol who had no qualms about going naked on screen but who turned down an advertising campaign for Pirelli because she did not want to be “exploited because of my looks or my shape or my image”. She was the girl who couldn’t say no but did when offered the role in Basic Instinct which made a star (and a millionaire) out of Sharon Stone. Another controversy erupted around her when, in her late 30s, she began a relationship with her first cousin Carlo Mantegazza and had a son