Sylvia Lopez

• Name — Sylvia Lopez • Birth Name — Tatjana Bernt • Born — 10 November 1933 • Birthplace — Vienna, Austria • Died — 20 November 1959 (aged 26) • Place of death — Nice, France • Other Names — Tania Karen Sylvia Sinclair • Occupation — Actress, model • Years Active — 1955–1959

Born Tatjana Bernt, she was raised in Paris, where she began a career in modelling. Eventually she modelled for couturier Jacques Fath, the first French fashion designer to export his creations to the United States. Appearing under the name "Sylvia Sinclair", Bernt earned enough exposure to attract the attention of film producers.

Lopez made her first of two French-language films following which she appeared in several Italian swashbucklers with American stars such as Steve Reeves and Lex Barker that were commercially successful and for which she received favourable reviews.

In November 1956 she became the second wife of the composer Francis Lopez. Diagnosed with leukaemia, Lopez died a few months after she withdrew while working on the set of a film Voulez-vous danser avec moi? (which was posthumously released a month later) with Brigitte Bardot. Sylvia Lopez is interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1956 — Baratin — Patricia Dubois-Dumas — as Tania Karen • 1957 — Cinq millions comptant — Loulou — as Sylvia Sinclair • Mademoiselle and Her Gang — Marie-Christine — Uncredited • 1958 — Tabarin — Florence Didier • 1959 — Herod the Great — Mariam / Miriam — Italian title – Erode il grande • Hercules Unchained — Queen Omphale, of Lidia — Italian title – Ercole e la regina di Lidia • Son of the Red Corsair — Carmen di Montélimar — Italian title – Il Figlio del corsaro rosso • Il Moralista — Woman in the Nightclub in Munich — Uncredited, (final film role)

She also worked under the names Sylvia Sinclair, Sylvia Lopez and Tania Karen. Her recorded language was French. She was the child of Erich Bernt and Eugénie Bogade. She married Francis Lopez and Haribert Herrmann.