Coco Rebecca Edogamhe

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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 .

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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
YearTitleRoleNotes
2021Le château du tarotLa PapesseShort film
2022 Robbing Mussolini Hessa
Television
Year(s)TitleRoleNotes
2020–2022 Summertime SummerLead role

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