Anita Ekberg
Born: 1931-09-29 in Malmö - Skåne län - Sweden
Died: 2015-01-11
Known For: Acting
Biography
Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (29 September 1931 - 11 January 2015), known as Anita Ekberg, was a Swedish actress who worked in European and American films. She started work as a fashion model and successfully transitioned to films in mid-1950s. Known for her voluptuous figure, she is best known for playing Sylvia in La Dolce Vita (1960), with its iconic scene where she cavorts in a fountain.
Filmography
2022
- Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
- Becoming Marilyn
2021
- The Girl in the Fountain as Self (archive footage)
- Ciao Anita as Self
- Dov'era lei a quell'ora as Anita Ekberg
2020
- Beautiful Like a Poem as Self (archive footage)
2014
- Becoming Anita Ekberg as Self (archive footage)
2011
- The Sweet Algorithm as Sylvia
2010
- 1960 as Self (archive footage)
2007
2006
- Fellini dice... as Self
2003
2002
- Heart of the Festival as Self (archive footage)
- The Magic of Fellini as Self
2000
- Federico Fellini's Autobiography as Self (archive footage)
1998
- The Red Dwarf as Paola Bendoni
1997
1996
- Bambola as Mamma Greta
1991
- Il Conte Max as Marika
1987
- Intervista as Anita Ekberg
1986
- The Seduction of Angela as Signora Rocchi
1983
- Fellini nel cestino as Self
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- Fatty Girl Goes to New York as baronessa Judith von Kemp
1980
- S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert as Dr. Else Biebling
1979
- Killer Nun as Sister Gertrude
- Gold of the Amazon Women as Queen Na-Eela
1977
- Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti as Self - Zenobia, Queen of Palmira (archive footage)
1976
- Bob Hope's World of Comedy as Self (archive footage)
1974
- Northeast of Seoul as Katherine
1972
- The French Sex Murders as Madame Colette
- Deadly Trackers as Jane
- Teatro 11 as Self
1970
- The Clowns as Anita Ekberg
- The Divorce as Flavia
- The Conjugal Debt as Ines
1969
- If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium as Performer
- Fangs of the Living Dead as Sylvia De Morel / Malenka
- Death Knocks Twice as Sophia Ferretti
- A Candidate for a Killing as Jacqueline Monnard
1968
- Night of Hate as Bessie
1967
- Woman Times Seven as Claudie
- The Cobra as Lou
- The Glass Sphinx as Paulette
1966
- How I Learned to Love Women as Margaret Joyce
- Way... Way Out as Anna Soblova
- Pardon, Are You for or Against? as Olga, la baronessa
1965
- The Alphabet Murders as Amanda Beatrice Cross
- Das Liebeskarussell as Lolita Young
1964
- Der goldene Schuß as Self
- Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa as Alberchiaria
1963
- 4 for Texas as Elya Carlson
- Call Me Bwana as Luba
1962
- Boccaccio '70 as Anita (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
- The Temptation of Dr. Antonio as Anita
- Lykke og krone
1961
- The Mongols as Hulina
- A porte chiuse as Olga Duvovich
1960
- La Dolce Vita as Sylvia
- The Dam on the Yellow River as Dorothy Simmons
- Three Etc.'s and the Colonel as Georgina
- Little Girls and High Finance as Jeanne
1959
- Sign of the Gladiator as Zenobia, Queen of Palmira
- Zwischen Glück und Krone
1958
- The Man Inside as Trudie Hall
- Paris Holiday as Zara
- Screaming Mimi as Virginia Wilson / Yolanda Lange
1956
- The Steve Allen Show as Self - Guest
- War and Peace as Helene Kuragina
- Hollywood or Bust as Actress Anita
- Back from Eternity as Rena
- Zarak as Salma
- Man in the Vault as Flo Randall
1955
- Casablanca as Katrina Jorgenson
- Artists and Models as Anita
- Blood Alley as Wei Ling
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- The Golden Blade as Handmaid
- Abbott and Costello Go to Mars as Venusian Guard
1951
1950
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- What's My Line? as Self