Anita Strindberg is a former Swedish actress

Acting

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 who became one of the most well-known stars of the Italian

Italy

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 giallo

Giallo

Giallo is an Italian 20th century genre of literature and film, which in Italian indicates crime fiction and mystery. In the English language it refers to a genre similar to the French fantastique genre and includes elements of horror fiction and eroticism...

films in the 1970s.

Strindberg started her career in "gialli" with Lucio Fulci

Lucio Fulci

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'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

Sergio Martino

Sergio Martino is an Italian film director and producer, notable for his contributions to the giallo genre.Martino is the brother of producer Luciano Martino. They collaborated frequently in their respective professions...

 -directed La coda dello scorpione ("Case of the Scorpion's Tail"). In 1972, she starred in two more gialli; in Aldo Lado

Aldo Lado

Aldo Lado is an Italian screenwriter and film director. He was born in Fiume, Italy .He wrote 21 films between 1968 and 2004. He also directed 16 films between 1971 and 1994.-Selected filmography:...

's Chi l'ha vista morire? ("Who Saw Her Die?") with George Lazenby

George Lazenby

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 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

Luigi Pistilli

Luigi Pistilli was an Italian actor of stage, screen, and television. In theater, he was considered one of the country's best interpreters of Bertolt Brecht's plays in The Threepenny Opera and St Joan of the Stockyards....

 and Edwige Fenech

Edwige Fenech

Edwige Fenech is a French-born Italian actress and film producer.- Biography :Fenech was born in Bône , in French Algeria to a Maltese father and Sicilian mother. From the late 1960s to early 1980s, Fenech starred in many types of European movies...

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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

The Exorcist

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-like horror film L'anticristo ("The Antichrist") and a poliziotteschi

Poliziotteschi

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film Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare ("Almost Human"), directed by Umberto Lenzi

Umberto Lenzi

Umberto Lenzi , is an Italian film director who was very active in low budget crime films, peplums, spaghetti westerns, war movies, cannibal films and giallo murder mysteries ....

. Her last film was Riccardo Freda

Riccardo Freda

Riccardo Freda was an Egyptian-born Italian film director. Best known for his horror and thriller movies, Freda had no great love for the horror films he was assigned, but rather favored the epic sword and sandal pictures...

's Murder Obsession (Follia Omicida), also known as "Fear" and co-starred by Laura Gemser

Laura Gemser

Laurette Marcia "Laura" Gemser is a Dutch-based actress of Indo descent, now Italian citizen. She is known for her work with director Joe D'Amato and Bruno Mattei, in particular, for doing a set of exploitation-style and Black Emanuelle films.Gemser has also been credited as Moira Chen, most...

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Filmography

• Forza 'G' (Winged Devils, 1971)
• Una lucertola con la pelle di donna (A Lizard in a Woman's Skin, 1971)
• La coda dello scorpione (Case of the Scorpion's Tail, 1971)
• Chi l'ha vista morire? (Who Saw Her Die?, 1972)
• All'onorevole piacciono le donne (Nonostante le apparenze... e purché la nazione non lo sappia) (The Senator Likes Women... Despite Appearances and Provided the Nation Doesn't Know, 1972)
• 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)
• Coartada en disco rojo (The Two Faces of Fear, 1972)
• Al tropico del cancro (Tropic of Cancer, 1972)
• Partirono preti, tornarono... curati (Halleluja to Vera Cruz, 1973)
• Diario segreto da un carcere femminile (Women in Cell Block 7, 1973)
• L'uomo senza memoria (Puzzle, 1974)
• La profanazione (1974)
• Contratto carnale (The African Deal, 1974)
• L'anticristo (The Antichrist, 1974)
• Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare (Almost Human, 1974)
• La verginella (1976)
• La segretaria privata di mio padre (1976)
• L'inconveniente (1976)
• The Salamander (1981)
• Murder Obsession (Follia Omicida) (1981)

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