Coco Rebecca Edogamhe
Rebecca Coco Edogamhe (born 5 September 2001),[1] also known as Coco Rebecca Edogamhe, is an Italian actress best known as the star of the streaming Netflix series Summertime.
Life and career
[edit]Edogamhe was born in Lecce and raised outside of Bologna to a Nigerian father and an Apulian Italian mother.[1][2][3] She has one younger sister.[1] She frequently traveled to visit family in Salento and Nigeria growing up.[4][1]
Although Edogamhe never took acting classes, she began auditioning for film and television roles as a high school student.[2] She booked her first professional acting job as the lead in the Italian Netflix series Summertime, a coming-of-age drama series set over summer break in a city on the Adriatic coast.[1] The show debuted in April 2020, shortly before she graduated high school, and was received positively.[5][2] The second season of Summertime was released in 2021.[2]
She has modeled in editorial shoots for Gucci and Liu Jo.[2]
Filmography
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Le château du tarot | La Papesse | Short film |
| 2022 | Robbing Mussolini | Hessa |
| Year(s) | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020–2022 | Summertime | Summer | Lead role |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Barnabi, Di Maria Elena (9 April 2021). "Coco Rebecca Edogamhe è la nuova bellissima cover star di Cosmopolitan (e vi aspetta in edicola)". Cosmopolitan (in Italian). Retrieved 17 February 2022.
- ^ a b c d e Turra, Alessandra (23 September 2020). "Italy's New Face: Meet Coco Rebecca Edogamhe". WWD. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
- ^ King, Akili (25 January 2022). "Summertime's Coco Rebecca Edogamhe Takes Pride in Her Hair". Vogue. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
- ^ "Coco Rebecca Edogamhe: "Summertime? La mia estate più bella" [INTERVISTA]". VelvetMag (in Italian). 25 May 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
- ^ "The Authors of Contemporary Black Italian History". nss magazine. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
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