Ilona Staller (born 26 November 1951), widely known by her stage name, Cicciolina, is a Hungarian-born Italian porn star, politician, and singer. Staller continued to make hardcore pornographic films while a member of parliament. She is famous for delivering political speeches with one breast exposed. Naturalized by marriage and settled in Italy, Staller met pornographer Riccardo Schicchi in the early 1970s, and, beginning in 1973, achieved fame with a radio show called “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?” on Radio Luna. For that program she adopted the name Cicciolina. She referred to her male fanbase, and later the male members of the Italian parliament, as “cicciolini”, translating loosely as “little tubby boys.” Although she appeared in several films from 1970, she made her debut under her own name in 1975 with “La liceale” (aka The Teasers) playing a lesbian classmate of Gloria Guida. In 1978, on the RAI show “C'era due volte,” her breasts were the first to be bared live on Italian TV. Staller appeared in her first hardcore pornographic film, “Telefono rosso” (Red Telephone) in 1983. She produced the film together with Schicchi's company Diva Futura. Her memoirs were published as “Confessioni erotiche di Cicciolina,” which translates as Erotic Confessions of Cicciolina, by the Olympia Press of Milan in 1987. That same year she appeared in “Carne bollente,” called The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empress in the United States, co-starring John Holmes. The film would later create a furor when it was revealed that Holmes had tested positive for HIV prior to appearing in it. Staller has appeared nude in Playboy's editions in several countries. Her first Playboy appearance was in Argentina in March 1988. Other appearances for the magazine were in the USA (September 1990), Hungary (June 2005), Serbia (July 2005) and Mexico (September 2005). In 1994, she appeared in the film Replikator and, in 1996, she had a role in the Brazilian soap opera Xica da Silva, as Princess Ludovica di Castelgandolfo di Genova. In 2008, she was a contestant on the Argentine version of Strictly Come Dancing named “Bailando por un sueño.”

Filmography

• 2025La fábrica y el sexo
• Amit tudni akarsz
• 2019Cortocircuito — (archive footage)
• Lo Scherzo Perfetto
• 2000Max's Classics - Del 1: 1980-1987 — (archive footage)
• 1999Malone contro Tutti
• 1999Porno Express 5 — (archive footage)
• 1997Maxed Out 6
• 1994Replikator — Miss Tina Show
• Eurotrash
• 1992Diva
• 1992I Fucked an Alien — Cicciolina
• 1992L'ultimo Tango Anale
• 1992La Ragazza e... lo Stallone Nero
• 1992Le Calde Labbra Di Moana
• 1991Le perversioni degli angeli
• 1991Luna Park dell'amore
• 1991Pioggia di piacere
• 1991Prison Bestial Loves — Congresswoman Ciccilolina
• 1990Backfield in Motion
• 1990I racconti segreti di una giovane cinquantenne
• 1990La Grande sfida hard
• 1990More Than Before
• 1990Passionate Lovers — Cicciolina
• 1990The Big Challenge - Act 1
• 1990The Rise of the Roman Empress II
• The Word
• 1990Tutte le Provocazioni di Moana — Cicciolina
• 1990World Cup '90
• 1989Backdoor Summer 2
• 1989Diva Futura - L'avventura dell'amore — Writer, Director
• 1988Backdoor Summer — (archive footage)
• 1988Shop of Pleasure — (archive footage)
• 1987Amori Particolari Transessuali
• 1987I vizi segreti degli italiani quando credono di non essere visti — Dancer
• 1987Moana e… le altre regine
• 1987The Rise of the Roman Empress — Cicciolina
• 1986Banane al cioccolato — Cicciolina
• 1986Cicciolina Number One — Cicciolina
• 1986I racconti sensuali di Cicciolina
• 1986Telefono rosso
• 1984Il porno poker
• 1984Orgia atomica
• 1979Cicciolina My Love — Cicciolina
• 1979Cicciolina amore mio — Cicciolina
• 1979Dedicated to the Aegean Sea — Anita
• 1979Skin Deep — Trella
• 1979The Face with Two Left Feet — Ilona
• 1978Fancy a Woman — Cicciolina
• 1977Yellow Emanuelle — Helen Miller / Helga
• 1976Dog Lay Afternoon — Eva
• 1976Heart of a Dog — Natasa
• 1976I prosseneti — Lyl
• 1976Inhibitions — Anna
• 1976Private Vices, Public Virtues — Woman in orgy
• 1975Calling All Police Cars — Prostitute
• 1975Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza — Gianka (uncredited)
• 1975L'ingenua — Angela
• 1975Savage Man Savage Beast — Girl in Isle of Wight (uncredited)
• 1975Substitute Teacher — Student
• 1975The Teasers — Monica
• 1975The Teenage Prostitution Racket — Blonde Model (as Elena Mercuri)
• 1974Five Women for the Killer — Tiffany
• 1970Bali
• Cicciolina Venus — Venus
• I quarant'anni di Frigidaire

Appearances as themselves (15)

• Gunther's Millions — Self (archive footage)
• Il était une fois Champs-Élysées — Self (archive footage)
• TV Story Superstar — Self (archive footage)
• 2017La Cicciolina: Godmother of Scandal — Self - Actress
• 2016Porn to Be Free — Self - Actress
• 2014Bra Wars – Hollywood’s Affair With The Bra — Self
• Cachitos de hierro y cromo — Self (archive footage)
• The Farm — Self
• High Chaparall — Self
• 1999Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes — Self
• Bains de Minuit — Self - Guest
• Já Está — Self
• Sacrée soirée — Self
• Champs-Elysées — Self
• NDR Talk Show — Self