Anita Strindberg
Born June 19, 1937 (Age: 88)
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Sweden
Biography
Anita Strindberg, born Anita Edberg, is a former Swedish actress who became one of the most well-known stars of the Italian giallo films in the 1970s. Strindberg started her career in "gialli" with Lucio Fulci's Una lucertola con la pelle di donna ("A Lizard in a Woman's Skin") in 1971 and starred in her first lead role that same year, in Sergio Martino -directed La coda dello scorpione ("Case of the Scorpion's Tail"). In 1972, she starred in two more gialli; in Aldo Lado's Chi l'ha vista morire? ("Who Saw Her Die?") with George Lazenby and Martino's 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") with Luigi Pistilli and Edwige Fenech.[1] After the early 1970s, Strindberg acted in many types of "genre films"; a women in prison film Diario segreto da un carcere femminile ("Women in Cell Block 7"), The Exorcist-like horror film L'anticristo ("The Antichrist") and a poliziotteschi film Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare ("Almost Human"), directed by Umberto Lenzi. Her last film was Riccardo Freda's Murder Obsession (Follia Omicida), also known as "Fear" and co-starred by Laura Gemser.
Anita Strindberg, born Anita Edberg, is a former Swedish actress who became one of the most well-known stars of the Italian giallo films in the 1970s.
Strindberg started her career in "gialli" with Lucio Fulci's Una lucertola con la pelle di donna ("A Lizard in a Woman's Skin") in 1971 and starred in her first lead role that same year, in Sergio Martino -directed La coda dello scorpione ("Case of the Scorpion's Tail"). In 1972, she starred in two more gialli; in Aldo Lado's Chi l'ha vista morire? ("Who Saw Her Die?") with George Lazenby and Martino's 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") with Luigi Pistilli and Edwige Fenech.[1] After the early 1970s, Strindberg acted in many types of "genre films"; a women in prison film Diario segreto da un carcere femminile ("Women in Cell Block 7"), The Exorcist-like horror film L'anticristo ("The Antichrist") and a poliziotteschi film Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare ("Almost Human"), directed by Umberto Lenzi. Her last film was Riccardo Freda's Murder Obsession (Follia Omicida), also known as "Fear" and co-starred by Laura Gemser.
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Filmography
The Salamander
1981
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as Princess Faubiani
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Age: 43
Murder Obsession
1981
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as Glenda
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Age: 43
The Antichrist
1974
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as Greta
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Age: 37
La profanazione
1974
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Age: 37
Puzzle
1974
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as Mary Caine
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Age: 37
Almost Human
1974
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as Iona Tucci
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Age: 37
The African Deal
1973
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as Eva McDougall
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Age: 36
Women in Cell Block 7
1973
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as Hilda
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Age: 36
Halleluja to Vera Cruz
1973
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Age: 35
Tropic of Cancer
1972
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as Grace Wright
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Age: 35
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
1972
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as Irina Rouvigny
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Age: 35
Who Saw Her Die?
1972
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as Elizabeth Serpieri
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Age: 34
The Two Faces of Fear
1972
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as Dr. Paola Lombardi
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Age: 34
Winged Devils
1972
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as Gianni's friend
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Age: 34
Sköna Susanna och gubbarna
1959
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as Joakim's Wife
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Age: 22