"Britt Ekland Britt Ekland (; born Britt-Marie Eklund; 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress and singer. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including critically acclaimed roles in William Friedkin's ""The Night They Raided Minsky's"" (1968), and the British crime film ""Get Carter"" (1971), which established her as a movie sex symbol. She also starred in the British cult horror film ""The Wicker Man"" (1973) and appeared as a Bond girl in ""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1974). Her high-profile social life and her 1964 marriage to actor Peter Sellers attracted considerable"
"Film Festival, where she became highly emotional when she saw the film. In the 2018 film ""My Dinner with Hervé"", Ekland was played by Helena Mattsson. Britt Ekland Britt Ekland (; born Britt-Marie Eklund; 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress and singer. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including critically acclaimed roles in William Friedkin's ""The Night They Raided Minsky's"" (1968), and the British crime film ""Get Carter"" (1971), which established her as a movie sex symbol. She also starred in the British cult horror film ""The Wicker Man"" (1973) and appeared"
"Jim Phantom, who was 19 years younger than her, aged 23. They had a son, Thomas Jefferson (born in 1988). They divorced in 1992. In the 1970s, Ekland was one of the most photographed and talked-about celebrities in the world. In 1980, her best-selling autobiography, ""True Britt"", was published. While Rod Stewart's domestic partner, Ekland inspired his hit song ""Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)"" 1977's overall #1 song. The song features a French spoken part from Ekland. In 2004, Ekland was portrayed by Charlize Theron in ""The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"". She accompanied Theron to the Cannes"
"American heiress; and as a hallucinatory figure in the anthology film ""Asylum"" (1972) opposite Charlotte Rampling. Her most iconic horror role came in the 1973 cult 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. Other roles included in the thriller ""The Ultimate Thrill"" (1974) and the British drama ""Baxter!"" (1973). On television, she was cast in the TV film ""The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War"" (1973) opposite Lee Majors. Ekland's next prominent role came when she was cast"
"(1969), a crime drama, based on a novel by Harold Robbins, co-starring Alex Cord. She then starred in a string of Italian films, ""Machine Gun McCain"" (1969), ""The Conspirators"" (1969), and as Antigone in ""The Cannibals"" (1970). 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. 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"
"as a Bond girl in ""The Man with the Golden Gun"", and in the British cult horror film ""The Wicker Man"", as well as her marriage to actor Peter Sellers, and her high-profile social life. In the series there's a lot of focus on her family life and her three children, Victoria, Nic and T.J. Ekland and her family also got their own spin-off series called ""The Eklands"". The first episode of ""Svenska Hollywoodfruar"" aired on 14 September 2009 and was watched by approximately 600,000 viewers, making it the most-watched television show in the 9:00 p.m. timeslot. It beat TV4's"
"Ryder in ""Dr. No"", but the role went to the then-unknown Ursula Andress. However Broccoli then cast her in ""Call Me Bwana"" (1963) with Bob Hope. (""Call Me Bwana"" featured in the second Bond film, ""From Russia with Love"", during a sequence where Ali Kerim Bey assassinates the Russian agent Krilencu with a sniper rifle. Krilencu attempts to escape through a window, which is situated in Anita Ekberg's mouth, on the wall-sized poster: ""She should have kept her mouth shut,"" Bond says.) Ekberg co-starred with Andress, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin in the western-comedy ""4 for Texas"" (1963). She returned"
"Agneta Eckemyr Agneta Marie-Anne Eckemyr (born 2 July 1950 in Karlsborg) is a Swedish actress and model turned clothing designer. Initially a model, her looks took her into film and television roles. She was photographed by ""Life Magazine"" appearing opposite the five semi finalist actors for the role of James Bond in ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"". Shortly after appearing in the 1974 Disney family film production ""The Island at the Top of the World,"" Eckemyr appeared on the front cover and within the October 1975 edition of ""Playboy"" magazine, as a Playboy Playmate. After retirement from being an actress,"
"True Britt True Britt was a best-selling autobiography, published in 1980, by the actress Britt Ekland. Ekland describes her marriage with Peter Sellers, relationships with Rod Stewart and Lord Lichfield and affairs with, among others Warren Beatty and 'Count' Ascanio Cicogna, and discovering she was nearly bankrupt at a supposedly prolific time in her career. Ekland refers to Peter Sellers as 'Sellers', he in turn called her 'Britvic' She describes his obsessive behaviour and obsession with pleasing the Royal Family, both contributing factors in their ultimate divorce. ""I would squirm with embarrassment at the demeaning lengths he would stoop to"
"""Billboard"" Hot 100. Alpert would later contribute a trumpet solo to the title song of the ""unofficial"" 1983 James Bond film ""Never Say Never Again"" (which was sung by Alpert's wife, Lani Hall). The film features the song ""The Look of Love"" performed by Dusty Springfield. It is played in the scene of Vesper Lynd recruiting Evelyn Tremble, seen through a man-size aquarium in a seductive walk. ""The Look of Love"" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song. The song was a Top 10 radio hit at the KGB and KHJ radio stations. It was heard again in"
"the first South African to win an Oscar for Best Actress. The Oscar win pushed her to ""The Hollywood Reporter's"" 2006 list of highest-paid actresses in Hollywood, earning up to US$10 million for a film; she ranked seventh. ""AskMen"" also named her the number one most desirable woman of 2003. For her role of Swedish actress and singer Britt Ekland in the 2004 HBO film ""The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"", Theron garnered Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award nominations. In 2005, she portrayed Rita, the mentally challenged love interest of Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman), on the third"
"like a slave. I willingly accommodate any demands that are made on me, sparing whips, chains and diversions."" ""Sex is a man's supreme game; his own private and perennial Olympics. He must always be made to feel that he is the dominant force, even if the woman generates the state of play."" True Britt True Britt was a best-selling autobiography, published in 1980, by the actress Britt Ekland. Ekland describes her marriage with Peter Sellers, relationships with Rod Stewart and Lord Lichfield and affairs with, among others Warren Beatty and 'Count' Ascanio Cicogna, and discovering she was nearly bankrupt at"
"the film in protest. Craig, unlike previous actors, was not considered by the protesters to fit the tall, dark, handsome and charismatic image of Bond to which viewers had been accustomed. The ""Daily Mirror"" ran a front-page news story critical of Craig, with the headline, ""The Name's Bland – James Bland"". The next important casting was that of the lead Bond girl, Vesper Lynd. Casting director Debbie McWilliams acknowledged Hollywood actresses Angelina Jolie and Charlize Theron were ""strongly considered"" for the role and Belgian actress Cécile de France had also auditioned, but her English accent ""wasn't up to scratch."" French"
"Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson and George Sanders. It is based on the novel ""Endless Night"" by Agatha Christie. She made two films for Sidney Hayers, ""What Changed Charley Farthing?"" (1974) and ""Deadly Strangers"" (1975). After ""The Kingfisher Caper"" in 1975, co-written by Boulting, Mills dropped out of the film industry for a few years. In 1981 Mills returned to acting with a starring role in the UK television mini-series ""The Flame Trees of Thika"", based on Elspeth Huxley's memoir of her childhood in East Africa. The series was well received, prompting Mills to accept more acting roles. She then returned"
"she turned her talents to clothing design. Her most recent designs are featured at ""Älskling"" (Swedish for ""Darling""), on Columbus Avenue, New York City; a block from where she lives in an apartment overlooking Central Park. Agneta Eckemyr Agneta Marie-Anne Eckemyr (born 2 July 1950 in Karlsborg) is a Swedish actress and model turned clothing designer. Initially a model, her looks took her into film and television roles. She was photographed by ""Life Magazine"" appearing opposite the five semi finalist actors for the role of James Bond in ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"". Shortly after appearing in the 1974 Disney"
"also takes credit for the greatest number of actors in a Bond film either to have appeared or to go on to appear in the rest of the Eon series – besides Ursula Andress in ""Dr. No"", Vladek Sheybal appeared as Kronsteen in ""From Russia with Love"", Burt Kwouk featured as Mr. Ling in ""Goldfinger"" and an unnamed SPECTRE operative in ""You Only Live Twice"", Jeanne Roland plays a masseuse in ""You Only Live Twice"", and Angela Scoular appeared as Ruby Bartlett in ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"". Jack Gwillim, who had a tiny role as a British army officer,"
"her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the crime drama ""Monster"" (2003), Theron received the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. The following year, she played Swedish entertainer Britt Ekland in the biographical film ""The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"". Theron played the eponymous rebel assassin in the science fiction action film ""Æon Flux"" and a miner fighting sexual harassment in the drama ""North Country"" (both in 2005). The"
"Call Girl Business"" (1960), ""Behind Closed Doors"" (1961), and ""The Mongols"" (1961), which had an American director (Andre De Toth) and co star (Jack Palance). She later said ""things became a little bit boring for me after ""La Dolce Vita"" because every producer or director in Italy, England and America wanted me to recreate the same role - the movie star from America who comes over to Italy."" Ekberg then appeared in ""Boccaccio '70"" (1962), a film that also featured Sophia Loren and Romy Schneider. Soon thereafter, Ekberg was being considered by Broccoli to play the first Bond girl, Honey"
"portrayed by Ursula Andress). ""Entertainment Weekly"" put ""Bond bathing suits"" on its end-of-the-decade, ""best-of"" list, saying, ""And you thought spies were supposed to be inconspicuous! Halle Berry's orange bikini in Die Another Day (2002) and Daniel Craig's supersnug powder blue trunks in ""Casino Royale"" (2006) suggest that neither 007 star can keep a secret."" Monica Bellucci in Spectre became the oldest Bond girl at the age of 50, although she stated that she does not consider herself to be a ""Bond girl"", but a ""Bond woman"". Roald Dahl said that when writing ""You Only Live Twice"", he was advised to"
"use three Bond girls: The first should die ""preferably in Bond's arms"" early, the second a villain whom Bond seduces before she dies in an unusual and gory way midway, and the third survives to the end of the film. In several, the Bond girl is revealed, after her tryst with Bond, to be a villainess. Examples are Fatima Blush (Barbara Carrera) in ""Never Say Never Again"" (1983), Elektra King (Sophie Marceau) in ""The World Is Not Enough"" (1999), and Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike) in ""Die Another Day"" (2002). As of 2013 there have been only two films in which"
"the title character in ""Octopussy"" (1983). If the ""unofficial"" James Bond films, ""Casino Royale"" and ""Never Say Never Again"", are included, several actresses have also been a Bond girl more than once: Ursula Andress in ""Dr. No"" (1962) and ""Casino Royale""; Angela Scoular in ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"" (1969) and ""Casino Royale""; Valerie Leon in ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" (1977) and ""Never Say Never Again"". Mary Goodnight was a supporting character in several Bond novels before graduating to full Bond girl in ""The Man with the Golden Gun"". Several short stories, such as ""Quantum of Solace"", ""The Hildebrand"
"In a Radio Times review of the play, the critic described Bond as ""stage royalty"" and ""hilarious."" In October and November 2017, Bond appeared in the English language premiere of Florian Zeller's modern French farce, ""The Lie"", once again alongside her husband, Alexander Hanson, at an Off-West End theatre called the Menier Chocolate Factory. In 1989, Bond starred as Mary MacKenzie, a young Scottish woman, in the television adaptation of Oswald Wynd's novel ""The Ginger Tree"", and was featured in ""Erik the Viking"", an independent fantasy film with Tim Robbins in the title role. She appeared in a 1990 adaptation"
"No"". On 8 September 2012, Bond producers announced Craig had signed on for two future Bond films, meaning he would appear as 007 in at least five films, making him the second-longest-serving Bond after Roger Moore, who starred in seven Bond films, and Sean Connery who starred in six EON Bond films and one non-EON Bond film. Craig hosted the American late-night live television sketch comedy ""Saturday Night Live"" on 6 October 2012. He appeared in a sketch about ""forgotten"" Bond women, including Diane Keaton, Penny Marshall, Jodie Foster, Ellen DeGeneres, Lea Michele, and Molly Ringwald. He and his wife"
"and he often clashed with fellow actors and directors. Upon its release in late June 1964, Bosley Crowther noted the ""joyously free and facile way"" in which Sellers had developed his comedy technique. Towards the end of filming, in early February 1964, Sellers met Britt Ekland, a Swedish actress who had arrived in London to film ""Guns at Batasi"". On 19 February 1964, just ten days after their first meeting, the couple married. Sellers soon showed signs of insecurity and paranoia; he would become highly anxious and jealous, for example, when Ekland starred opposite attractive men. Shortly after the wedding,"
"number of Bond girls who were featured throughout the film franchise between the first James Bond film, ""Dr. No"" (1962) starring Ursula Andress and the then-current 20th film ""Die Another Day"" starring Halle Berry. In 2003, the documentary was released on DVD and offered as a free gift with the purchase of ""Die Another Day"" on DVD by some retailers. In 2006, a new version of the documentary, updated to include interviews with cast from ""Casino Royale"" and edited to include commercial breaks, was produced for the AMC network and was later released as a bonus feature on the March"
"onto one of his radio shows. By the time she reached the age of 14, she was singing full-time at the Mecca Locarno in Leeds, and the following year, moved to London with her parents, where she became a resident singer at Mecca's Tottenham Court Road ballroom. Coupland became a leading singer of the 1940s and 1950s, working at the Dorchester Hotel and the Savoy Hotel. She also dubbed the singing voices of actresses who could not sing, including Lana Turner in ""Betrayed"", and, most famously, was heard performing the song ""Under the Mango Tree"" in the first James Bond"
"and ""Soulmate"" in support of the film's cause: a movement against current slavery and human trafficking. In 2004, Bedingfield showed interest in acting and made her debut in the ""James Bond"" video game ""From Russia with Love"" in November 2005. She voiced the character Elizabeth Stark, the British Prime Minister's daughter who is kidnapped in the opening sequence. Bedingfield commented that she would like to do more acting, but only if the film ""was good enough, and it was a role that [would] fit me."" She has made an appearance in the seventh-season finale of the Canadian television series """"."
"was the first to be eliminated on 30 March placing 11th. 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 in London. She stood by him after he suffered a series of heart attacks shortly after their marriage. Ekland was stepmother to Sellers' children Sarah and Michael (who died of a heart attack at about the same age as his father). In January 1965 they had a daughter, Victoria. The couple made three films together —"
"for her affection. Although known for her imperious temper and connections with European royalty, these stories were almost certainly exaggerated. In 1953 she had married American cinematographer Scotty Welbourne, with whom she had a child. In the late 1950s she left acting to start a clothing design business with Liz de Lisser in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Although divorced in 1958, she used the name 'Welborn'. In 1962 the producers of the James Bond film ""Dr. No"" (which was to be filmed in Jamaica) asked Welborn to provide wardrobe for actress Ursula Andress. Working with Andress, she created the ivory hipster"
"Julie Christie was considered, but discarded as the producers felt she was not voluptuous enough. Just two weeks before filming began, Ursula Andress was chosen to play Honey after the producers saw a picture of her taken by Andress' then-husband John Derek. To appear more convincing as a Jamaican, Andress had a tan painted on her and ultimately had her lines redubbed by voice actress Nikki van der Zyl due to Andress' heavy Swiss German accent. For Bond's antagonist Dr. No, Ian Fleming wanted his friend Noël Coward, and Coward answered the invitation with ""No! No! No!"" Fleming considered that"
"show The VM Underground Show. She filmed her scenes for an episode of ""Eureka"" which aired in 2009. She also joined the band Jacqui Judge & the Gallows as their backing vocalist. In 2009, she went to Winnipeg, Manitoba to shoot the movie ""Foodland"", directed by Adam Smoluk. The movie marks the first time she will be singing on screen in a feature film, she plays Lucy Eklund the femme fatale who's a con artist by day and cabaret singer at night. She sings the song ""You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)"". She was originally"
"Evelyn Tremble (Peter Sellers); millionaire spy Vesper Lynd (Ursula Andress); Bond's secretary Miss Moneypenny (Barbara Bouchet); Mata Bond (Joanna Pettet), Bond's daughter by Mata Hari; and British agents ""Coop"" (Terence Cooper) and ""The Detainer"" (Daliah Lavi). Charles K. Feldman, the producer, had acquired the film rights in 1960 and had attempted to get ""Casino Royale"" made as an Eon Productions Bond film; however, Feldman and the producers of the Eon series, Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, failed to come to terms. Believing that he could not compete with the Eon series, Feldman resolved to produce the film as a"
"Kristina Wayborn Britt-Inger Johansson, known professionally as Kristina Wayborn (born 24 September 1950), is a Swedish actress who worked mostly in the United Kingdom and in the United States. Wayborn was born Britt-Inger Johansson in Nybro, Småland, Sweden. She was Miss Sweden in 1970, and was a semi-finalist in the Miss Universe pageant that same year. She was also selected as Miss Scandinavia 1971. Wayborn portrayed screen legend Greta Garbo in the television movie ""The Silent Lovers"" (1980), an episode of the miniseries Moviola, which brought her to the attention of the producers of the James Bond films. She was"