Agneta Eckemyr
{{Short description|Swedish actress and model (1950–2018)}}
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Agneta Marie-Anne Eckemyr (2 July 1950 – 29 December 2018){{Cite news|url=https://www.svd.se/dodsannonser#/Case/556184?query=Agneta%20eckemyr|title = Dödsannonser i SVD|newspaper = Svenska Dagbladet}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/rL6wkK/svenska-skadespelerskan-agneta-eckemyr-dod|title=Svenska skådespelerskan Agneta Eckemyr är död}} was a Swedish actress, model and clothing designer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.expressen.se/noje/agneta-eckemyrs-sista-svara-ar/|title=Agneta Eckemyrs sista svåra år|website=expressen.se|language=sv|access-date=31 December 2018}}
Biography
Eckemyr was born in Karlsborg in the county of Västra Götaland. She started modelling at a young age, and moved to New York City in the United States when she was 20 years old.
She was photographed by Life Magazine appearing opposite the five semi finalist actors for the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.http://www.life.com/gallery/37692/image/ugc1022802#index/30{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Shortly after appearing in the 1974 Disney family film production The Island at the Top of the World, Eckemyr appeared on the front cover and within the October 1975 edition of Playboy magazine, in a pictorial on Sapphic love.[http://www.mopublishing.com/playboy1975.htm Playboy Magazine – 1975 Back Issues] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609024619/http://www.mopublishing.com/playboy1975.htm |date=9 June 2007 }} Her success in the US led to offers of high-profile roles in Sweden, and in 1975 she appeared in Lejonet och jungfrun (The Lion and the Virgin) with Sven-Bertil Taube and directed by Lars-Magnus Lindgren.
After retirement from being an actress, she turned her talents to clothing design. Her final designs were featured at Älskning (Swedish for Darling) on Columbus Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, a block from where she lived in an apartment overlooking Central Park.[https://web.archive.org/web/20061119075251/http://www.nordicway.com/search/Places/places_new%20york.htm Places_Solvang]{{Cite web |url=http://www.vasterastidning.se/Default.aspx?ca=33&ad=2051 |title=Västerãs Tidning |access-date=30 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928015917/http://www.vasterastidning.se/Default.aspx?ca=33&ad=2051 |archive-date=28 September 2007 |url-status=dead }} She moved back to Sweden in 2013, and died in Stockholm in 2018.
Filmography
- 1971: Blindman – Pilar
- 1974: The Island at the Top of the World – Freyja
- 1975: Lejonet och jungfrun – Virgo
- 1977: The Kentucky Fried Movie – Ming Chow (segment "A Fistful of Yen")
- 1978: CHiPs episode Flashback! –1st Woman in Car
- 1979: Winter Kills – Nurse One
- 1979: Kristoffers hus – Hanna
- 1980: Flygnivå 450 – Aino
- 1981: Olsson per sekund eller Det finns ingen anledning till oro – Inger
- 1982: Brusten himmel – Märta
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0248555|name=Agneta Eckemyr}}
- {{cite web |url=http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=119696 |title=Agneta Eckemyr |work=The New York Times}}
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