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Brigitte Nielsen Biography, Age & Height, Family, Husband, Movies and TV Shows, Twitter, Instagram and Video

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Brigitte Nielsen Biography

Brigitte Nielsen is a Danish actress, model, singer and reality television personality who began her career modeling for Greg Gorman and Helmut Newton and later acted in the 1985 films Red Sonja and Rocky IV.

She is also famous for being married to Sylvester Stallone, with whom she starred in the 1986 film Cobra. She began appearing on reality shows in the 2000s and built her career starring in B-movies and hosting TV shows.

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Brigitte Nielsen Age & Height

Nielsen was born Gitte Nielsen on 15 July 1963. She is currently 55 years old with a height of 1.85 m. The world press refers to her as an “Amazon” because of her tall stature.

Brigitte Nielsen Family

Nielsen was born Gitte Nielsen in Rødovre, a suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the daughter of Hanne Nielsen, a librarian, and Svend Nielsen, an engineer, and the ex-sister-in-law of Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn. Nielsen has an elder brother, Jan Nielsen.

Brigitte Nielsen Spouse/ Husband & Children

Nielsen has been married five times and has four sons and one daughter. Her first son, Julian Winding was born on 12 April 1984, with her first husband, Kasper Winding, to whom she was married from 1983–84. She then married actor Sylvester Stallone, on 15 December 1985 at the Beverly Hills, California. Their marriage lasted 19 months, with their divorce being finalized in July 1987.

Her second child, Killian Marcus Gastineau (born on 15 December 1989), she had with ex-fiancé Mark Gastineau. Between 1990 and 1992, she was married to director and photographer Sebastian Copeland. Her fourth marriage was to Raoul Meyer, with whom she has two sons; Douglas Aaron (born on 19 April 1993) and Raoul, Jr. (born on 21 May 1995).

In 1987, she confessed to an affair with Tony Scott and in 2005, she had a highly publicized relationship with rapper Flavor Flav. Nielsen has also confessed to having an affair with Arnold Schwarzenegger while he was in a relationship with Maria Shriver. Her current husband is Mattia Dessi whom she got married to in Malta on 8 July 2006. The two have a daughter, Frida who was born on June 22, 2018.

Brigitte Nielsen Movies and TV Shows

Movies/Films

1985Red Sonja
1985Rocky IV
1986Cobra
1987Beverly Hills Cop II
1988Bye Bye Baby
1988Domino
1989Murder by Moonlight
1992976-Evil II
1992The Double0 Kid
1992Mission of Justice
1992Fantaghirò 2
1993Fantaghirò 3
1993Chained Heat II
1994Fantaghirò 4
1995Compelling Evidence
1995Body Count
1995Galaxis
1996Fantaghirò 5
1996Snowboard Academy
1998Paparazzi
1999She’s Too Tall
2000Hostile Environment
2000Doomsdayer
2008The Hustle
2009The Fish
2010Big Money Rustlas
2011Ronal the Barbarian
2012Eldorado
2013The Key
2014Mercenaries
2015Exodus
2018Experience

Television

1992Counterstrike
2000Un posto al sole
2009Nite Tales: The Series
2011SOKO 5113
2014Raising Hope
2015Portlandia
2015 –Gitte Talks
2017 –Adi Shankar’s Gods and Secrets

Brigitte Nielsen Discography

Albums

• 1988 Every Body Tells a Story
• 1992 I’m the One… Nobody Else
• 2008 Brigitte Nielsen (re-release of I’m the One… Nobody Else and Every Body Tells a Story)

Singles

• “Body Next to Body” – Falco meets Brigitte Nielsen; 1987; (No. 6 Austria, No. 22 Germany, No. 1 Japan)
• “Every Body Tells a Story”; 1987; (No. 38 Italy; No. 15 Germany)
• “Maybe”; 1988
• “Siento”; 1988 (South America only)
• “It’s a Strange Love”; 1988
• “Rockin’ Like a Radio”; 1990
• “My Girl (My Guy)”; 1991
• “How Could You Let Me Go?”; 1992
• “Work That Body”; 1993
• “No More Turning Back” (as Gitta); 2000; released by Jive; (No. 1 Spain, No. 1 Eurodance chart; No. 64 Netherlands, No. 54 UK)
• “Everybody’s Turning Back” (as Gitta vs. Rozalla)
• “Tic Toc” (as Gitta); 2001; released by Blanco y Negro
• “You’re No Lady” (as Gitta with Ru Paul); 2002; released by Do It Yourself; (No. 1 Spain)
• “Misery” (as Gitte Nielsen with Spleen United); 2012

Brigitte Nielsen Domino

Obscene phone calls provoke a platinum blonde (Brigitte Nielsen) making a video documentary about Billie Holiday.
Initial release: October 1988
Director: Ivana Massetti
Cinematography: Tonino Nardi
Producer: Giovanni Di Clemente
Screenplay: Ivana Massetti, Gérard Brach

Brigitte Nielsen Beverly Hills Cop 2

The hard-nosed Detroit cop from the original film returns to Los Angeles to help solve another case. This time he must direct his efforts towards unravelling the Alphabet Crimes, a series of robberies committed by leather-jacketed punks. The investigation puts him on the trail of an illegal arms dealer and his hit lady.
Initial release: 20 May 1987 (USA)
Director: Tony Scott
Featured song: Shakedown
Box office: 300 million USD
Budget: 20 million USD

Brigitte Nielsen & Falco

Read “Body Next To Body” by Falco & Brigitte Nielsen on Genius

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