Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (29 September 1931 - 11 January 2015), known as Anita Ekberg, was a Swedish actress who worked in European and American films. She started work as a fashion model and successfully transitioned to films in mid-1950s. Known for her voluptuous figure, she is best known for playing Sylvia in La Dolce Vita (1960), with its iconic scene where she cavorts in a fountain.

Filmography

• 2022Becoming Marilyn — (archive footage)
• 2021Dov'era lei a quell'ora — Anita Ekberg
• 2011The Sweet Algorithm — Sylvia
• 2009Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France
• 2007Anita of Sweden
• 1998The Red Dwarf — Paola Bendoni
• 1997La villa dei misteri
• 1996Bambola — Mamma Greta
• 1994In morte di Federico Fellini
• 1992Ambrogio — Clarice
• 1992Bad Girls — Milli
• 1991Il Conte Max — Marika
• 1987Intervista — Anita Ekberg
• 1986The Seduction of Angela — Signora Rocchi
• 1982Fatty Girl Goes to New York — baronessa Judith von Kemp
• 1980S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert — Dr. Else Biebling
• 1979Gold of the Amazon Women — Queen Na-Eela
• 1979Killer Nun — Sister Gertrude
• 1977Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti — Self - Zenobia, Queen of Palmira (archive footage)
• 1976Bob Hope's World of Comedy — (archive footage)
• 1974Northeast of Seoul — Katherine
• 1972Deadly Trackers — Jane
• 1972The French Sex Murders — Madame Colette
• 1970The Clowns — Anita Ekberg
• 1970The Conjugal Debt — Ines
• 1970The Divorce — Flavia
• 1969A Candidate for a Killing — Jacqueline Monnard
• 1969Death Knocks Twice — Sophia Ferretti
• 1969Fangs of the Living Dead — Sylvia De Morel / Malenka
• 1969If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium — Performer
• 1968Night of Hate — Bessie
• 1967The Cobra — Lou
• 1967The Glass Sphinx — Paulette
• 1967Woman Times Seven — Claudie
• 1966How I Learned to Love Women — Margaret Joyce
• 1966Pardon, Are You for or Against? — Olga, la baronessa
• 1966Way... Way Out — Anna Soblova
• 1965Das Liebeskarussell — Lolita Young
• 1965The Alphabet Murders — Amanda Beatrice Cross
• 1964Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa — Alberchiaria
• 19634 for Texas — Elya Carlson
• 1963Call Me Bwana — Luba
• 1962Boccaccio '70 — Anita (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
• 1962The Temptation of Dr. Antonio — Anita
• 1961A porte chiuse — Olga Duvovich
• 1961The Mongols — Hulina
• 1960La Dolce Vita — Sylvia
• 1960Little Girls and High Finance — Jeanne
• 1960The Dam on the Yellow River — Dorothy Simmons
• 1960Three Etc.'s and the Colonel — Georgina
• 1959Sign of the Gladiator — Zenobia, Queen of Palmira
• 1958Paris Holiday — Zara
• 1958Screaming Mimi — Virginia Wilson / Yolanda Lange
• 1958The Man Inside — Trudie Hall
• 1957Interpol — Gina Broger
• 1957Valerie — Valerie Horvat
• 1956Back from Eternity — Rena
• 1956Hollywood or Bust — Actress Anita
• 1956Man in the Vault — Flo Randall
• 1956War and Peace — Helene Kuragina
• 1956Zarak — Salma
• 1955Artists and Models — Anita
• 1955Blood Alley — Wei Ling
• Casablanca — Katrina Jorgenson
• 1953Abbott and Costello Go to Mars — Venusian Guard
• 1953The Golden Blade — Handmaid
• 1951Terras fönster 5

Appearances as themselves (22)

• 2025Being Bo Widerberg — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Rat Pack — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Ciao Anita — Self
• 2021The Girl in the Fountain — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Beautiful Like a Poem — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Becoming Anita Ekberg — Self (archive footage)
• 20101960 — Self (archive footage)
• 2006Fellini dice... — Self
• 2003Federico Fellini - Through the Eyes of Others — Self
• 2002Heart of the Festival — Self (archive footage)
• 2002The Magic of Fellini — Self
• 2000Federico Fellini's Autobiography — Self (archive footage)
• 1983Fellini nel cestino — Self
• Champs-Elysées — Self
• 1972Teatro 11 — Self
• Der goldene Schuß — Self
• 1962Lykke og krone — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1959Zwischen Glück und Krone — Self (archive footage)
• The Steve Allen Show — Self - Guest, Self - Snow White, Self - Singer
• The Oscars — Self
• The Colgate Comedy Hour — Self
• What's My Line? — Self