Britt Ekland is always a tricky one. She doesn't like being photographed and puts it down to the daylight. Maybe more perceptive people put it down to her age, after all she is 64, but she looks good all the same.
She is starring in pantomine today and is promoting the show for the Winter. Considering how hot it is, it seems very surreal! Her companion is her chihuahua Tequila whom she adores.
Britt Ekland was born in Sweden and grew up to be the poster girl for beautiful, big-eyed Scandinavian blondes.
She attended a drama school and then joined a traveling theater group. With her looks as her passport, Britt 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!).
She appeared in two films with her husband: Caccia Alla Vvolpe (1966) (aka "After the Fox"), written by Neil Simon, and the forgettable The Bobo (1967). Her claim to fame would come as the young girl who invented the striptease in The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968). After that, she 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 Fraternity Vacation (1985) and Beverly Hills Vamp (1988).
She certainly knows what she wants, and it's her limousine to the airport to take her home to Sweden. Curt but to the point, she tells us enough photos and goes off to change. Hopefully the show will be a sell out, but it's a long way from Winter!
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