Sylvia Kristel

Dutch actress, model, recording artist (1952-2012)

  • Fame60.7
  • Momentum6.0
  • Netherlands rank#188
Source-basedFalling
  • Fame60.7
  • Momentum6.0
  • Netherlands rank#188
  • Wikipedia40K
Lived 1952–2012, aged 60Netherlands
  • Wikipedia
    53 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Rank in Netherlands
    #188
    Actors
  • Era
    1952–2012
    Aged 60
  • Known for
    Emmanuelle
    1974
Summary
Updated 2026-06-12

She played Emmanuelle in the 1974 film that became one of the highest-grossing French films ever made, returning to the role four more times and cementing a character that straddled art cinema and erotica in ways few others managed.

Biography

About

Sylvia Maria Kristel was born in the Netherlands on 28 September 1952. She became a model before moving into acting, where she landed the title role in Emmanuelle in 1974 — a performance that made her internationally recognizable and typecast her for years. She reprised the character in four of the six sequels that followed, while appearing in more than 50 films total across her career. She continued working in cinema through the decades that followed, never fully escaping the shadow of that first role. Kristel died on 17 October 2012.

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Score breakdown

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Fame
Falling
60.7
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum6.0
Historical25.2
Now attention16.5
Source confidence70.0
Completeness80.0
Global rank
Country rank
#188
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  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
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  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
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