1. Britt Ekland was born on Britt-Marie Eklund; 6 October 1942 and is a Swedish actress, model, and singer.
33 Facts About Britt Ekland
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Britt Ekland starred in several horror films, including The Wicker Man, and appeared as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun.
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Britt Ekland's mother died of Alzheimer's disease in the 1980s, which had a profound effect on her.
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Britt Ekland had small roles in the Swedish films Kort ar sommaren and Det ar hos mig han har varit, before landing her first major supporting part in the George Marshall Western Advance to the Rear.
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However she left the Pinewood production after only three weeks into filming due to tension with her new husband Peter Sellers, who was apparently so paranoid about Britt Ekland having an affair with Leyton he secretly asked his old acting friends, David Lodge and Graham Stark who were co-starring in the picture, to keep an eye on her.
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Britt Ekland has said that Sellers insisted that she leave the set, come to America, then claim that an illness prevented her from returning.
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Britt Ekland's role was quickly recast and completed by Mia Farrow.
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Britt Ekland followed this with After the Fox, starring Sellers; she made one more film with Sellers, The Bobo.
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Britt Ekland then starred in a string of Italian films, Machine Gun McCain, The Conspirators, and as Antigone in The Cannibals.
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Britt Ekland's best known horror role came in 1973s 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.
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Britt Ekland played a comedy role in Royal Flash, which has been described as "perhaps her best screen work".
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In 1976 Britt Ekland provided the French spoken part at the end of then-boyfriend Rod Stewart's single "Tonight's the Night ".
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Britt Ekland portrayed biographical characters, such as the one based on real-life actress Anny Ondra in the television film Ring of Passion.
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Britt Ekland was featured in the horror films The Monster Club and Satan's Mistress.
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Britt Ekland appeared in the comedy film Fraternity Vacation, followed by a role in the slasher film Moon in Scorpio, and as prostitute Mariella Novotny in the feature Scandal about the Profumo affair.
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Britt Ekland has guest-starred on various television series, including an appearance on the popular TV series Superboy, playing an alien disguised as Lara, Superboy's biological mother, during the show's second season in 1990.
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Britt Ekland published a beauty and fitness book, Sensual Beauty: How to Achieve It, followed by a fitness video in 1992.
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Britt Ekland appeared on stage as a cast member in Cinderella at the Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent in December 1999 and January 2000.
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Britt Ekland appeared as a guest on the British daytime television show Loose Women, in January 2008.
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From December 2008 to January 2009 Britt Ekland starred in Cinderella at the Shaw Theatre in London.
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Britt Ekland starred in further pantomimes at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, in 2011 and 2012.
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In 2010 Britt Ekland took part in the reality TV show I'm a Celebrity.
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Britt Ekland was one of the housewives of Svenska Hollywoodfruar on TV3 from 2012 to 2014.
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In 2020 Britt Ekland appeared in Season 4 of BBC TV's The Real Marigold Hotel.
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Britt Ekland's autobiography True Britt was published in 1980 by Prentice-Hall, Inc The book is an archetypal celebrity tell-all, chronicling her marriage to Peter Sellers and subsequent relationship with Rod Stewart.
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Britt Ekland is the author of one novel, Det Ljuva Livet.
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In 2024, Britt Ekland contributed an introduction to the LGBT+ horror novel, The Sugar Pit by William Jackson, published by the Cambridge Queer Press.
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Britt Ekland became famous overnight as a result of her 1964 whirlwind romance and marriage to English actor and comedian Peter Sellers, who proposed after seeing her photograph in the paper and then meeting her in London.
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Britt Ekland stood by him after he suffered a series of heart attacks shortly after their marriage.
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Britt Ekland was stepmother to Sellers's children Sarah and Michael.
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In June 1973, Britt Ekland had a son, Nicolai Adler, with record producer Lou Adler.
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Britt Ekland had a much publicised romance with rock star Rod Stewart.
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Britt Ekland accompanied Theron to the Cannes Film Festival, where she became highly emotional when she saw the film.