Mai Zetterling

Mai Elisabeth Zetterling Swedish pronunciationmj st May 1925 March 1994 was a Swedish actress and film director.

Zetterling appeared in film and television productions spanning six decades from the 1940s to the 1990s. Her breakthrough came in the 1944 film Torment written by Ingmar Bergman, in which she played a controversial role as a tormented shopgirl. Shortly afterwards she moved to England and gained instant success there with her title role in Basil Deardens Frieda 1947 playing opposite David Farrar. After a brief return to Sweden in which she worked with Bergman again in his film Music in Darkness 1948, she returned to England and starred in a number of English films, playing against such leading men as Tyrone Power, Dirk Bogarde, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Richard Attenborough, Keenan Wynn, Stanley Baker, and Dennis Price.Some of her notable films as an actress include Quartet 1948, a film based on some of W. Somerset Maughams short stories, The Romantic Age 1949 directed by Edmond T. Grville, Only Two Can Play 1962 costarring Peter Sellers and directed by Sidney Gilliat, and The Witches 1990, an adaptation of Roald Dahls book directed by Nicolas Roeg. Having gained a reputation as a sex symbol in dramas and thrillers, she was equally effective in comedies, and also was very active in British television in the 50s and 60s. ........

Source: Wikipedia