Jessica Moore (actress)

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Jessica Moore (birth name: Luciana Ottaviani) (August 8, 1967, Urbino, Pesaro, Italy) was an Italian actress who acted primarily in erotic and horror movies.

Before she became an actress, Jessica Moore was a glamour model. Eventually, director Joe D'Amato discovered her in 1986 and cast her in three of his films, the rather insignificant nunsploitation film Convent of Sinners (1986), as well as the sexploitation films Eleven Days, Eleven Nights (1986) and its direct sequel Top Model (1988), in both of which she played the female lead, an uninhibited and promiscuous author doing research for her erotic novels.

Eleven Days, Eleven Nights and Top Model were both very successful, yet Jessica Moore never worked with Joe D'Amato again and instead played supporting roles in a handful of insignificant horror films for the likes of Lucio Fulci (The Ghosts of Sodom), Mario Bianchi (The Murder Secret aka The Broken Mirror) and Enzo Milioni (Escape from Death) before leaving the film industry for good in 1989 at the request of her jealous boyfriend and later husband who didn't approve of her many nude scenes.

Sources

* [http://www.searchmytrash.com/articles/jessicamoore(9-07).shtml Biography on (re)Search my Trash]
* [http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/jarman/16/luciana.htm Bio-page on The European Film Exploits]

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0601358/ IMDb entry on Jessica Moore]