Britt Ekland (born October 6, 1942 as Britt-Marie Eklund) is a Swedish actress, long resident in the UK.

Britt Ekland in ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’.

She appeared in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun as Mary Goodnight. Other film appearances include The Night They Raided Minsky’s, Get Carter, the 1973 film The Wicker Man (for which her voice was dubbed) and The Ultimate Thrill.

She had been director Roman Polanski’s first choice for the lead in Rosemary’s Baby (1968) because he thought she would contrast well with the film’s dark undertones. The studio preferred Mia Farrow, however, who had become a star on the enormously popular night-time soap opera Peyton Place (1964). She would later stand as maid of honour for Sharon Tate at her marriage to Polanski.

Britt Ekland became famous overnight as a result of her 1964 whirlwind romance and marriage to British actor Peter Sellers, who proposed after seeing her photograph in the paper. She stood by him after he suffered a series of massive heart attacks shortly after their marriage. Ekland was stepmother to Sellers’ children Sarah and Michael (who died of heart attack at about the same age as his father). In January 1965 they had a daughter, Victoria. The couple made two films together, After the Fox in 1966 and The Bobo in 1967, before divorcing the following year (1968).