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Britt Ekland
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In the earliest stages of her career, Swedish actress Britt Ekland was "famous for being famous" as the wife of film comedian Peter Sellers. By the 1990s she had been a major star in her own right for over 3 decades.
Britt Ekland
Ekland had appeared in two Italian pictures before marrying Sellers in 1963, then co-starred with her husband in After the Fox (1966) and The Bobo (1967). She enjoyed good reviews for her role as a prim Quaker girl who inadvertently invented the strip-tease in The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968).
Most of Ekland's subsequent films were low-budget melodramas but Ekland's hardworking ethic always meant she gave 100% to the role. She won rave reviews as James Bond's vis-a-vis in The Man With the Golden Gun (1973) and in the 1974 cult thriller, The Wicker Man.
It is likely that Britt Ekland will be remembered for not only her cinematic triumphs; chances are future generations will also know her from her brief alliance with Peter Sellers, or from her tempestuous and well-documented private life, as recounted in her autobiography True Britt. |
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