Anita Strindberg

Known for ActingBorn 1937-06-19 (age 88)Sweden

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Quella chiara notte d'ottobre

Almost Human

Halleluja to Vera Cruz

Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

Who Saw Her Die?

The Case of the Scorpion's Tail

The Antichrist

Puzzle

The Eroticist

The Salamander

My Father's Private Secretary

Blonde in Bondage

Murder Obsession

The Two Faces of Fear

Tropic of Cancer

Women in Cell Block 7

L'inconveniente

La verginella

The African Deal

La profanazione

Sköna Susanna och gubbarna

Winged Devils