Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

In her 2006 autobiography Nue Sylvia Kristel stated that Sylvia Kristel was sexually abused by an elderly hotel guest when Sylvia Kristel was nine years old an experience Sylvia Kristel otherwise refused to discuss. Career

Kristel began modeling when Sylvia Kristel was 17. Another mainstream American film appearance was a brief comic turn in the Get Smart revival film The Nude Bomb in 1980.

Sylvia Maria Kristel (28 September 1952 – 18 October 2012) was a Dutch actress who performed in over 50 films and was best known for playing the lead character in four of the seven Emmanuelle films.