Anita Strindberg

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Anita Strindberg (born 1944 in Sweden) is a former 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.^[1]

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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)