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| Birth Name(s) : Britt-Marie Ekland |
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Single
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Peter Sellers (1964–1968) |
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Full Britt Ekland Biography
Britt Ekland (born 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress, long resident in the United Kingdom. She is fluent in English, French, German and her native Swedish and is most famous for her role as a Bond Girl in The Man with the Golden Gun.
Ekland's father was a successful retailer and she has three younger brothers. Her mother died after a long battle with Alzheimers and Ekland was diagnosed with osteoporosis (which in her case she attributes to chronic dieting and low calcium), after falling at an awards show and fracturing her wrist and ankle. She has been associated with Alzheimer's and Osteoporosis organizations.
Ekland appeared in the 1974 James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun. Other notable film appearances include The Night They Raided Minsky's, Baxter (co-starring Patricia Neal), The Double Man, Get Carter (in the 1999 BBC television series I Love the '70s she hosted the 1971 episode in homage to her role as "Anna" in the film), and the 1973 cult film The Wicker Man (for which her voice was dubbed to disguise her Swedish-accented English).
Ekland became famous as a result of her 1964 whirlwind romance and marriage to British actor and comedian, Peter Sellers, who proposed after seeing her photograph in the paper. She stood by him after he suffered a series of massive heart attacks shortly after their marriage, and in 1965 they had a daughter, Victoria. The couple made two films together, After the Fox in 1966 and The Bobo in 1967, before she divorced Sellers. Ekland also has a son, Nicholai (born 1973) from her relationship with record producer Lou Adler.
She was portrayed by Charlize Theron in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004). Theron invited her to be her date at the Cannes Film Festival, and she became emotional when she saw the film for the first time. There have also been reports that she was not happy with the film and claimed it is not an accurate representation of her life with Sellers.
She is a close friend of Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne and is still a regular fixture on the rock and roll social scene. In the last few years she has appeared in several pantomimes in the UK. |
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