Retired Amea quarterback Michael VickDanish actress, model, and singer Brigitte Nielsen was born Gitte Nielsen on the 15th of July, 1963. The photographers Greg Gorman and Helmut Newton were her first clients. After that, she appeared in Red Sonja and Rocky IV in 1985, and she returned to the Rocky franchise for Creed II last year.
In 1986, Nielsen married co-star and future husband Sylvester Stallone from the film Cobra. She portrayed an antagonist in Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) and the Black Witch in the Italian film series Fantaghir, released in the 1990s. In the years that followed, she became a successful actress, host, and reality show participant.
Brigitte Nielsen Net Worth
Brigitte Nielsen is a Danish actress, model and television personality who has a net worth of $600 thousand. In addition to her work as a model and actress, Brigitte Nielsen is well-known for her relationships with rapper Flavor Flav and Sylvester Stallone.
Brigitte Nielsen Early Years
On July 15, 1963, at Rdovre, Copenhagen, Denmark, Gitte Nielsen gave birth to Brigitte Nielsen. Her mother, Hanne, is a librarian, and her father, Svend Nielsen, is an engineer.
Brigitte Nielsen Acting and Modeling Career
Nielsen, who is over six feet tall, started out in the 80s posing for Greg Gorman and Helmut Newton. She photographed for Playboy multiple times and even posed for the cover in December 1987. Due to her towering stature, the international press dubbed her “Amazon” in the late 1980s after she posed for photos dressed as the comic book character She-Hulk.
Several years later she made her acting debut in the 1985 movie “Red Sonja” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and “Rocky IV.” Together with her then-husband Sylvester Stallone, she acted in the 1986 film “Cobra.” She co-starred with Eddie Murphy as Karla Fry in “Beverly Hills Cop II” (1987) and as the Dark Witch in the Italian TV Series “Cave of the Golden Rose” from 1992 to 1996.
She was in the music videos for “Liberian Girl” by Michael Jackson and “Body Next To Body” by Austrian rock star Falco. Nielsen hosted a chat program for a Davis TV network in 1997 called “Gittes venner,” and she made guest appearances on various Danish TV shows and ads toward the end of the decade. Nielsen’s ex-mother-in-law Jackie Stallone appeared on the Danish version of “Big Brother” in 2003.
Nielsen made appearances in the first season of the Italian TV show “The Mole” in 2004 and the third season of the VH1 show “The Surreal Life.” In 2006, Nielsen guest-starred in “Flavor of Love.” The British mockumentary “Killing Brigitte Nielsen” debuted on Sky Travel in 2007 with Nielsen in the lead role.
In 2008, she was featured on the MTV reality series “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew,” when she and several other famous people went through drug and alcohol rehabilitation at a clinic in Pasadena. Nielsen announced on German television in May 2008 that she was going to spend €66,000 (about $77,000 USD) on a series of plastic procedures designed to “renew” her figure.
German television station RTL filmed her procedures for a show titled “Aus alt mach neu – Brigitte Nielsen in der Promi-Beauty-Klinik.” Also known as “Celebrity Makeover: Brigitte Nielsen” on Sky Italia in Italy. Nielsen made two reality program appearances in France in 2010.
Nielsen provided his voice for the 2011 Danish animation “Ronal the Barbarian.” The next year, she participated in the horror thriller “Eldorado” and was a celebrity competitor and winner of the German edition of “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!”. It was in 2013 that she made her film debut in “The Key.”
Nielsen had starring roles in three 2014 films and one TV show: “Exodus,” “Raising Hope,” and “Mercenaries.” Nielsen launched her own chat program in 2015 titled “Gitte Talks” on the Danish television network Kana 4.
As of August 2016, she has been hosting the German version of “Wirt Sucht Liebe.” She became a series regular in 2017 on the CW show “Gods and Secrets.” In 2018, Brigitte resumed her “Rocky IV” role of Ludmilla Drago in “Creed II.”
Brigitte Nielsen Private Matters
Brigitte can communicate effectively in Danish, English, German, and Italian, and she has a working knowledge of French. Kasper Winding was Nielsen’s first spouse. They had one son, Julian Winding, during their brief marriage in the early ’80s, but Nielsen has had very little contact with him.
Perhaps her most recognized relationship was her marriage to Sylvester Stallone in December 1985. They got engaged on the set of “Rocky IV” in 1985. In July 1987, their highly publicized divorce became public knowledge. The couple was childless. Killian Marcus Gastineau, the first of her children, was born to her and her ex-fiance Mark Gastineau in 1989.
From 1990 to 1992, Nielsen was married to filmmaker and photographer Sebastian Copeland. Nielsen’s fourth spouse, Raoul Meyer, was the father of her two sons. In 2005, she had a widely publicized romance with rapper Flavor Flav. In July of 2006, Nielsen tied the knot with Mattia Dessi. Nielsen, who was 54 at the time, had her fifth child in June 2018.
In July 2007, Nielsen admitted herself to a rehabilitation center in North Hollywood, and word immediately spread that her family had staged an intervention. The news that she had checked in was made public by her manager, Steven Tempone.
She was out a week and a half later to attend the Comedy Central roast of “Flavor Flav.” In 2010, it was verified that she was sober and had quit smoking, following her appearance on “Celebrity Rehab” for alcoholism and her subsequent success story with sobriety, which was featured on TV Guide.
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