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

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

Film
Year Title Role Notes
2021 Le château du tarot La Papesse Short film
2022 Robbing Mussolini Hessa
Television
Year(s) Title Role Notes
2020–2022 Summertime Summer Lead role

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c d e Turra, Alessandra (23 September 2020). "Italy's New Face: Meet Coco Rebecca Edogamhe". WWD. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  3. ^ King, Akili (25 January 2022). "Summertime's Coco Rebecca Edogamhe Takes Pride in Her Hair". Vogue. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Coco Rebecca Edogamhe: "Summertime? La mia estate più bella" [INTERVISTA]". VelvetMag (in Italian). 25 May 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  5. ^ "The Authors of Contemporary Black Italian History". nss magazine. Retrieved 17 February 2022.


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