This actress was born in Sweden and grew up to be the poster girl for beautiful, big-eyed Scandinavian blondes. Britt attended a drama school and then joined a traveling theater group. With her looks as her passport, she entered films and became a star in Italy. When Peter Sellers met her in a hotel, he fell hard for her and they soon married. 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 didn't hurt, either).
Ekland appeared in two films with her husband: "After the Fox" (1966), written by Neil Simon, and the forgettable "The Bobo" (1967). Ekland's claim to fame would come as the young girl who invented the striptease in "The Night They Raided Minsky's" (1968). After that, this actress appeared in a string of movies that were built around her looks and not much else. She did appear in some first-rate productions over the years, though, two of them being "Get Carter" (1971) and the cult classic "The Wicker Man" (1973).
The high point in her career would be her role as Bond babe Mary Goodnight in "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974). After her much publicized breakup with rocker Rod Stewart in 1977, Britt continued to make movies--both features and made-for-TV films--and tried the stage. By that time, the quality of her film projects had decreased markedly, and she was reduced to appearing in things like "Beverly Hills Vamp" (1989) and "Fraternity Vacation" (1985).
