“extremely impulsive … I’m like a steamroller – I just go forward. I don’t have that stopper in me … Someone falls down in front of me, then I fall in love with him.”
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Britt Ekland
Britt Ekland is a Swedish actress. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including roles in The Double Man (1967), The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968), Machine Gun McCain (1969), Stiletto (1969), and the British crime film Get Carter (1971), which established her as a sex symbol. She also starred in several horror films, including The Wicker Man (1973), and…
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entertainment · Swedish actress (born 1942) · actor · writer · autobiographer · television presenter · model · also Britt Ekland, Britt-Marie Eklund, Britt Marie Eklund, Ekland
Born 6 October 1942 · Q233837
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might have left sooner … I know that sounds horrible. [But] I’m just being practical.
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2026· 6 entries
“might have left sooner … I know that sounds horrible. [But] I’m just being practical.”
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Yahoo: Britt Ekland, 83, Reflects on Bond Legacy While Enjoying a Venice Boat Ride
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SBS: Watch Britt Ekland Movies and TV Shows
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2024· 1 entry
Ekland contributed an introduction to the LGBT+ horror novel, The Sugar Pit by William Jackson, published by the Cambridge Queer Press
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2023· 1 entry
Yahoo News UK: Britt Ekland ‘couldn’t help’ looking at John Hurt’s privates ahead of orgy scene
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2020· 3 entries
Yahoo: Former Bond girl Britt Ekland doesn't want a woman to play 007: 'That's not going to happen'
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Toured the country in a production of The Cat and the Canary, playing Mrs
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Ekland appeared in Season 4 of BBC TV's The Real Marigold Hotel
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2018· 1 entry
Participated in Let's Dance broadcast on TV4
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2010· 1 entry
Ekland took part in the reality TV show I'm a Celebrity
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2008· 1 entry
Orange County Register: Britt Ekland photos from age 21 to 61
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2004· 1 entry
Charlize Theron portrayed Ekland in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
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1984· 1 entry
At age 42, she married Stray Cats drummer Slim Jim Phantom, who was 23
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1978· 1 entry
Hosted a syndicated television series for American International Television called "Jukebox
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1976· 1 entry
Ekland provided the French spoken part at the end of then-boyfriend Rod Stewart's single "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)"
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1975· 1 entry
By Joan Collins and lived together for more than two years, with Ekland giving up her career to focus on their relationship
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1971· 1 entry
Was cast as a leading lady and gun moll in the crime film Get Carter, opposite Michael Caine, which firmly established her as a blonde bombshell
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1964· 1 entry
Appeared in the Christmas television film A Carol for Another Christmas with her husband Peter Sellers
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1942· 1 entry
Born 1942-10-06.
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