Anita Strindberg

Who is Anita Strindberg?

Anita Strindberg 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 in 1971 and starred in her first lead role that same year, in Sergio Martino -directed La coda dello scorpione. In 1972, she starred in two more gialli; in Aldo Lado's Chi l'ha vista morire? with George Lazenby and Martino's Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave with Luigi Pistilli and Edwige Fenech.

After the early 1970s, Strindberg acted in many types of "genre films"; a women in prison film Diario segreto da un carcere femminile, The Exorcist-like horror film L'anticristo and a poliziotteschi film Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare, directed by Umberto Lenzi. Her last film was Riccardo Freda's Murder Obsession, also known as "Fear" and co-starred by Laura Gemser.