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Britt Ekland
In the earliest stages of her career, Swedish actress Britt Ekland was “famous for being famous” as the wife of film comedian Peter Sellers. By the 1990s she had been a major star in her own right for over 3 decades.
Ekland became famous as a result of her 1964 whirlwind romance and marriage to 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.
In 1974, she appeared in her most famous acting role as Bond Girl Mary Goodnight alongside Roger Moore’s 007 in The Man With The Golden Gun. Her other films include a highly erotic scene with Michael Caine in the British classic Get Carter and a sensuous episode during her role as an insatiable nymphomaniac in The Wicker Man.
In the Seventies, the Swedish actress moved in with rocker Rod Stewart but it was reported that they were never really “sexually compatible”.
