Monica Swinn, is a Belgian actress, best known for her roles in French and European soft pornographic films of the 1970s, particularly those of the sexploitation

Sexploitation

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 and horror film

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 genre. She starred in many of Jesus Franco

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's films, including Female Vampire

Female Vampire

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(1973) as Princess de Rochefortand Women Without Innocence (1978) which occasionally featured her in hardcore lesbian scenes with Lina Romay

Lina Romay

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 and another Franco regular, Alice Arno; different versions of films such as the Female Vampire had to be produced because of their explicit scenes.She tended to play characters with a sexual vulnerability, usually maids, prisoners or isolated aristocratic women. According to Swinn herself she was typecast, recalling after reading a typical Franco script: "I'd mull over the previous scenes and think to myself, "this can't be the same character"; "how many films am I really making"."

Filmography

• Overdrive (1970)
• Bande de cons! - Noose (uncredited) (1970)
• Le sexe enragé (short) -Monelle (1970)
• La tzira (short) - Cannibal girl (1970)
• The Lover
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  (1972)
• Al otro lado del espejo -Marie's Girlfriend (1973)
• Female Vampire
  Female Vampire
  Female Vampire or The Bare Breasted Countess is a 1973 French erotic horror film by Jesus Franco.-Plot:The plot revolves around Countess Irina von Karlstein , a mute woman who needs sex like a vampire needs blood in order to stay alive forever. When new victims are found fatally drained of potency,...
  
  - Princess de Rochefort (1973)
• La fête des fous (1974)
• Hommes de joie pour femmes vicieuses - Alba Ory (1974)
• The Perverse Countess - Prisoner (1974)
• Prout prout tralala (short) -Narrator (voice) (uncredited) (1974)
• Célestine, bonne à tout faire (1974)
• Curse of the Living Dead - Girl in tavern (1974)
• Draguse ou le manoir infernal - Draguse (1975)
• Downtown - Die nackten Puppen der Unterwelt - Olga Ramos (1975)
• La marque de Zorro - Miss Hayes (1975)
• Les baiseuses - Fabienne Meunier - directrice de la maison de correction (1975)
• Le jouisseur - Mrs. Lapierre (1975)
• Les nuits brûlantes de Linda (1975)
• Lorna Steiner (1975)
• Les chatouilleuses (1975) - Simone
• Une cage dorée (1976) - Barmaid
• Die Marquise von Sade (1976) -journalist
• Paris porno (1976)
• Midnight Party -Linda (1976)
• Caged Women - The Wardress (1976)
• Les emmerdeuses - Pindar (1976)
• Helltrain
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  - Ingrid Schüler (1977)
• Shining Sex - Madame Pécame (1977)
• Ces sacrées anglaises (1977)
• Cinéma 16
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  (TV series), episode:Au bout du printemps (1977)
• Frauen im Liebeslager -Maria (1977)
• Once Upon a Virgin (1977)
• East of Berlin - Greta (1978)
• Women Without Innocence - Sandra Mauro (1978)
• L'éventreur de Notre-Dame - Maria, a sadist (1979)
• Le sexe enragé de la fée sanguinaire - Monelle (1979)
• Les petites sauvages (1982)