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On television, she was cast in the TV film The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War (1973) opposite Lee Majors.
Other roles included in the thriller The Ultimate Thrill (1974) and the British drama Baxter! (1973). Her most iconic horror role came in the 1973 horror film The Wicker Man, in which she played a Pagan villager and seductress however, her voice was dubbed in the film to disguise her Swedish-accented English. The 1970s also saw Ekland in several horror films, including What the Peeper Saw (1972) as a disturbed bride the Agatha Christie adaptation Endless Night (1972), playing the friend and companion of an American heiress and as a hallucinatory figure in the anthology film Asylum (1972) opposite Charlotte Rampling. In 1971, she was cast as a leading lady and gun moll in the iconic crime film Get Carter, opposite Michael Caine, which firmly established her as a blonde bombshell. Sex symbol and horror roles: 1971–1988 Įkland with Lee Majors in The Six Million Dollar Man (1973) She then starred in a string of Italian films, Machine Gun McCain (1969), The Conspirators (1969), and as Antigone in The Cannibals (1970). Next came Stiletto (1969), a crime drama, based on a novel by Harold Robbins, co-starring Alex Cord. This was followed with a lead role as an Amish girl turned New York City burlesque dancer in William Friedkin's musical The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968), which earned Ekland critical acclaim. She followed this with After the Fox (1966), also starring Sellers she made one more film with Sellers, The Bobo (1967). In 1964, she appeared in the Christmas television film A Carol for Another Christmas with her then-husband, Peter Sellers. She had small roles in the Swedish films Kort är sommaren (1962) and Det är hos mig han har varit (1963), before landing her first major supporting part in the George Marshall Western Advance to the Rear (1964). This was followed with a small supporting part in The Happy Thieves (1960). Film career Early roles: 1960–1970 Įkland began her career with bit parts and uncredited walk-on roles, including her first onscreen role in G.I. As a teenager, Ekland left school to travel with a theatre company and was spotted in a coffee shop while in Italy by a talent agent who sent her to London to audition for films. I always tried to be funny to make up for the fact that I was fat and ugly".
Įkland grew up with three younger brothers, and has said that she was overweight for much of her childhood: "I was very heavy. Ekland's mother died of Alzheimer's disease in the 1980s, which had a profound effect on her. 2.2 Sex symbol and horror roles: 1971–1988Įkland was born Britt-Marie Eklund in Stockholm, Sweden to Maj Britt, a secretary, and Sven Axel Eklund, who ran an upmarket clothing store in Stockholm and was captain of the Swedish national curling team.Her high-profile social life, her 1964 marriage to actor Peter Sellers and her relationship with singer Rod Stewart attracted considerable press attention, leading to her being one of the most photographed celebrities in the world during the 1970s. She also starred in several horror films including the British horror film The Wicker Man (1973), and appeared as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).Įkland continued to act throughout the remainder of the 1970s, having roles in films such as The Ultimate Thrill (1974), Royal Flash (1975), High Velocity (1976) and King Solomon's Treasure (1979), and into the 1980s starring in the likes of Fraternity Vacation (1985), Moon in Scorpio (1987) and Scandal (1989) although since the early 1990s her acting work has mainly consisted of stage shows, one-off roles, cameos or appearances on reality television. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including roles in The Double Man (1967), The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968), Machine Gun McCain (1969), Stiletto (1969) and the British crime film Get Carter (1971), which established her as a sex symbol. Britt Ekland ( Swedish pronunciation: ( listen) born Britt-Marie Eklund 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress, model and singer.