Anita Ekberg

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.

Born

Sep 29, 1931

Malmö - Skåne län - Sweden

Died

Jan 11, 2015

Known For

Acting

Movies

82 acting

0 crew

Popularity

1.6

movie

Known For

La Dolce Vita

1960

as Sylvia

War and Peace

1956

as Helene Kuragina

The Clowns

1970

as Anita Ekberg

Artists and Models

1955

as Anita

Boccaccio '70

1962

as Anita (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")

La Dolce Vita

1960 • as Sylvia

★ 8.0

War and Peace

1956 • as Helene Kuragina

★ 6.6

Bambola

1996 • as Mamma Greta

★ 4.5

The Clowns

1970 • as Anita Ekberg

★ 6.9

Artists and Models

1955 • as Anita

★ 6.6

Fellini dice...

2006 • as Self

Blood Alley

1955 • as Wei Ling

★ 6.0

Boccaccio '70

1962 • as Anita (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")

★ 6.9

Woman Times Seven

1967 • as Claudie

★ 6.3

4 for Texas

1963 • as Elya Carlson

★ 5.2

Zarak

1956 • as Salma

★ 5.4

In morte di Federico Fellini

1994

The French Sex Murders

1972 • as Madame Colette

★ 4.9

Back from Eternity

1956 • as Rena

★ 6.7

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

1969 • as Performer

★ 5.9

Way... Way Out

1966 • as Anna Soblova

★ 5.9

Death Knocks Twice

1969 • as Sophia Ferretti

★ 4.2

The Alphabet Murders

1965 • as Amanda Beatrice Cross

★ 5.7

Rat Pack

2022 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 9.0

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

1953 • as Venusian Guard

★ 5.5

Hollywood or Bust

1956 • as Actress Anita

★ 6.2

Valerie

1957 • as Valerie Horvat

★ 4.6

Sign of the Gladiator

1959 • as Zenobia, Queen of Palmira

★ 4.6

Three Etc.'s and the Colonel

1960 • as Georgina

★ 8.0

The Golden Blade

1953 • as Handmaid

★ 6.7

Killer Nun

1979 • as Sister Gertrude

★ 4.8

Call Me Bwana

1963 • as Luba

★ 5.8

The Mongols

1961 • as Hulina

★ 5.2

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Bob Hope's World of Comedy

1976 • as (archive footage)

Pardon, Are You for or Against?

1966 • as Olga, la baronessa

★ 6.1

Man in the Vault

1956 • as Flo Randall

★ 5.6

Becoming Marilyn

2022 • as (archive footage)

★ 7.5

Intervista

1987 • as Anita Ekberg

★ 6.8

How I Learned to Love Women

1966 • as Margaret Joyce

★ 4.8

Bad Girls

1992 • as Milli

★ 4.0

Paris Holiday

1958 • as Zara

★ 5.9

Deadly Trackers

1972 • as Jane

★ 4.2

Fangs of the Living Dead

1969 • as Sylvia De Morel / Malenka

★ 4.4

Gold of the Amazon Women

1979 • as Queen Na-Eela

★ 3.7

The Seduction of Angela

1986 • as Signora Rocchi

★ 5.7

Beautiful Like a Poem

2020 • as Self (archive footage)

Being Bo Widerberg

2025 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 8.0

The Glass Sphinx

1967 • as Paulette

★ 7.0

The Man Inside

1958 • as Trudie Hall

★ 6.1

The Girl in the Fountain

2021 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 6.7

Heart of the Festival

2002 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 6.7

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti

1977 • as Self - Zenobia, Queen of Palmira (archive footage)

★ 9.0

Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France

2009

Interpol

1957 • as Gina Broger

★ 6.4

Screaming Mimi

1958 • as Virginia Wilson / Yolanda Lange

★ 5.0

Lykke og krone

1962 • as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 9.0

Northeast of Seoul

1974 • as Katherine

★ 7.0

S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert

1980 • as Dr. Else Biebling

★ 4.5

Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa

1964 • as Alberchiaria

★ 4.0

Federico Fellini's Autobiography

2000 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 6.4

The Magic of Fellini

2002 • as Self

★ 3.5

Zwischen Glück und Krone

1959 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 10.0

Das Liebeskarussell

1965 • as Lolita Young

★ 3.3

Fatty Girl Goes to New York

1982 • as baronessa Judith von Kemp

★ 6.0

Il Conte Max

1991 • as Marika

★ 5.3

Night of Hate

1968 • as Bessie

★ 6.2

The Red Dwarf

1998 • as Paola Bendoni

★ 6.2

A Candidate for a Killing

1969 • as Jacqueline Monnard

★ 5.5

La villa dei misteri

1997

Little Girls and High Finance

1960 • as Jeanne

★ 7.7

1960

2010 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 5.2

The Dam on the Yellow River

1960 • as Dorothy Simmons

★ 5.5

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Fellini nel cestino

1983 • as Self

★ 7.5

A porte chiuse

1961 • as Olga Duvovich

★ 6.6

The Temptation of Dr. Antonio

1962 • as Anita

★ 7.0

Dov'era lei a quell'ora

2021 • as Anita Ekberg

Teatro 11

1972 • as Self

The Conjugal Debt

1970 • as Ines

★ 5.4

The Divorce

1970 • as Flavia

★ 6.7

Ciao Anita

2021 • as Self

The Cobra

1967 • as Lou

★ 7.5

Federico Fellini - Through the Eyes of Others

Federico Fellini - Through the Eyes of Others

2003 • as Self

★ 7.0

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Anita of Sweden

2007

Ambrogio

1992 • as Clarice

★ 9.0

The Sweet Algorithm

2011 • as Sylvia

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Terras fönster 5

1951

Becoming Anita Ekberg

2014 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 6.0