Anita Strindberg
{{short description|Swedish actress}}
Anita Strindberg (born 19 June 1937) is a Swedish former actress who appeared in numerous Italian giallo films in the 1970s.
Strindberg appeared as Anita Edberg in two Swedish films in the late 1950s.{{Cite web | title=Anita Edberg | work=Swedish Film Institute | url=http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-filmdatabas/Item/?type=PERSON&itemid=65842 | accessdate=28 February 2015}} She started her career in gialli with Lucio Fulci's A Lizard in a Woman's Skin in 1971 and starred in her first lead role that same year, in the Sergio Martino-directed The Case of the Scorpion's Tail. In 1972, she starred in three more gialli: Aldo Lado's Who Saw Her Die?, Martino's Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key and Tropic of Cancer alongside Anthony Steffen.{{cite web | title=Scream Queens: Anita Strindberg | work=The Terror Trap | url=http://www.terrortrap.com/screamqueens/strindberg.php | accessdate=2011-11-03}}
After the early 1970s, Strindberg acted in many types of genre films: a women in prison film Women in Cell Block 7 (1973); the Exorcist-like horror film The Antichrist (1974); and the poliziotteschi film Almost Human (1974), directed by Umberto Lenzi. Her last film was Riccardo Freda's Murder Obsession, also known as Fear co-starring Laura Gemser.
Filmography
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- Blonde in Bondage (1957) - Telephone Operator
- Sköna Susanna och gubbarna (1959) - Susanna
- Quella chiara notte d'ottobre (1970) - Victim (uncredited)
- Una lucertola con la pelle di donna (A Lizard in a Woman's Skin, 1971) - Julia Durer
- La coda dello scorpione (Case of the Scorpion's Tail, 1971) - Cléo Dupont
- Coartada en disco rojo (The Two Faces of Fear, 1972) - Dr. Paola Lombardi
- The Eroticist (1972) - French Ambassador's Wife
- Chi l'ha vista morire? (Who Saw Her Die?, 1972) - Elizabeth Serpieri
- Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave (Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, 1972) - Irina
- Forza 'G' (Winged Devils, 1972) - Cléo Dupont
- Al tropico del cancro (Tropic of Cancer, 1972) - Grace Wright
- Partirono preti, tornarono... curati (Halleluja to Vera Cruz, 1973)
- Diario segreto da un carcere femminile (Women in Cell Block 7, 1973) - Daughter of Musumeci
- Contratto carnale (The African Deal, 1974) - Eva McDougall
- La profanazione (1974)
- Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare (Almost Human, 1974) - Iona Tucci
- L'uomo senza memoria (Puzzle, 1974) - Mary Caine
- L'anticristo (The Antichrist, 1974) - Greta
- La verginella (1975)
- My Father's Private Secretary (1976) - Ingrid
- L'inconveniente (1976)
- The Salamander (1981) - Princess Faubiani
- Murder Obsession (1981) - Glenda Stanford (final film role)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0834527|name=Anita Strindberg}}
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