Britt Ekland in The Man With the Golden Gun (1974)

Vintage postcard in the Bond Girls series. Britt Ekland in The Man With the Golden Gun (Guy Hamilton, 1974).

Swedish actress Britt Ekland (1942) became famous through her marriage to Peter Sellers and her relationship with singer Rod Stewart. She was also known for her roles in such films as The Night They Raided Minsky's Get Carter, and The Man with the Golden Gun.

Britt Ekland was born Britt-Marie Eklund in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1942. Britt grew up to be the poster girl for beautiful, big-eyed Scandinavian blondes. She attended a drama school and then joined a travelling theatre group. She later moved to England. When Peter Sellers met her in a hotel, he fell hard for her and they soon married in 1964. Tony Fontana at IMDb: "The combination of Sellers' stardom and her stunning beauty contributed to her fame (the fact that Sellers suffered a heart attack in bed on their wedding night did not hurt, either). " In 1965, they had a daughter Victoria. They made three films together including the Italian film Caccia alla volpe/After the Fox (Vittorio De Sica, 1966), written by Neil Simon. The couple divorced as early as 1968. Her claim to fame came as the young girl who invented the striptease in the musical comedy The Night They Raided Minsky's (William Friedkin, 1968) with Jason Robards. Throughout the 1960s she played major roles in The Double Man (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1967) opposite Yul Brynner, the Italian crime film Gli intoccabili/Machine Gun McCain (Giuliano Montaldo, 1969) with John Cassavetes, Stiletto (Bernard L. Kowalski, 1969), which established her as a sex symbol. She also had several relationships with well-known figures such as Rod Stewart and Phil Lewis. She had a son Nicholai (1973) by Lou Adler and married a second time, this time to Slim Jim Phantom, drummer of the Stray Cats. They had a son, Thomas Jefferson (1988).

Britt Ekland appeared opposite Michael Caine in the classic British crime film Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1971). She also starred in several Horror films, including the cult classic The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973). Ekland had already auditioned to play a Bond girl in the first Bond film Dr No (1962), but the role eventually went to Ursula Andress. She finally played Bond girl Mary Goodnight in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (Guy Hamilton, 1974), starring Roger Moore. Ekland continued to act throughout the 1970s, with roles in films such as Royal Flash (Richard Lester, 1975) starring Malcolm McDowell, High Velocity (Remi Kramer, 1976) with Ben Gazzara, and King Solomon's Treasure (Alvin Rakoff, 1979), and into the 1980s, starring in the likes of Fraternity Vacation (James Frawley, 1985), and Scandal (Michael Caton-Jones, 1989) with John Hurt. Since the early 1990s, her acting work has mainly consisted of stage shows, one-off roles, cameos, and appearances on reality television. Ekland was very much into the fitness trend. She wrote a book on the subject in 1984 and made a fitness video in 1992.

Sources: Tony Fontana (IMDb), Wikipedia (Dutch and English) and IMDb.

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