Isabel Sarli

About Isabel Sarli

Isabel Sarli was an Argentine actress, and model. Sarli was Miss Argentina in 1955, and this led to her successful relationship as an international actress.

Sarli was introduced to filmmaker Armando Bo in 1956 and became the star of his films, starting with El trueno entre las hojas (1957) in 1956. Her nude scenes in this drama --a first in Argentinian cinema-- and their subsequent soft-porn movies were highly criticized and condemned in Argentina. In spite of censorship and persecution, she became an international star, filming in Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela, and films like Fuego (1969) and Fiebre (1971) reached the American and European markets. Although she was very funny in sex comedies like La mujer del zapatero (1968), Bo insisted in casting her in naturalistic melodramas. After his death in 1981, Isabel Sarli retired and has only appeared sporadically in other directors' films. As of June 2016, she and her adopted daughter Isabelita were living in Martinez, Buenos Aires, Argentina.