 Naked actress Britt Ekland |
Name:
Britt Ekland
Birth Name:
Britt-Marie Eklund
Place Of Birth:
Stockholm, Sweden
Date Of Birth:
6 October 1942
Claim To Fame:
Swedish movie star and Bond Girl Britt Ekland starred in a string of hit films such as The Night They Raided Minsky's, Get Carter, The Man With The Golden Gun and cult classic The Wicker Man through the 1970s, 80s and 90s. She also became one of the most photographed stars in the world following her marriage to comic actor Peter Sellers in 1964. Britt describes herself as fat and ugly as a kid, but she blossomed in her teens, getting spotted by a talent agent while with a theatre company, who sent her to London to audition for movies. She took many bit parts until her breakthough as a burlesque dancer in The Night They Raided Minsky's. She did a string of movies in Hollywood, Italy and Britain before she was cast as the lead Bond Girl, Mary Goodnight, in the 1974 movie The Man With The Golden Gun. She continued to land roles through the 1980s in movies like Moon In Scorpio and Scandal. She has made regular television and theatre appearances in to her seventies. Almost as famous as her marriage to Peter Sellers was a two-year relationship with rock star Rod Stewart. Charlize Theron played her in the 2004 movie The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers.
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