Meeting Venus

  Where Is Femi Benussi Today? A Journey Through the Vanished Stars of European Cinema Where is Femi Benussi today? It is a question that has become increasingly difficult to answer — and perhaps that is precisely what makes her story so fascinating. Once a familiar face of Italian cinema , Femi Benussi appeared in dozens of films during the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, moving effortlessly between giallo , horror, erotic cinema and commedia sexy . She also appeared in a film by the legendary Pier Paolo Pasolini , showing that her career was more varied than the image of the glamorous genre actress that later came to define her. But where did Femi Benussi go? That question opens our new Vanished European Stars series on Meeting Venus , in which we look back at actresses and actors who were once visible everywhere on European screens — in cinemas, on television, on magazine covers and in the popular press — but who later disappeared from the public eye. Their stories take us beyon...